Example sentences of "while [prep] the other [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fingers of one hand tugged and pulled , ineffectually , at the dark hair , while with the other hand she held him , her breast thrust against him , feeling the strength of her longing sap the power from her limbs . |
| 2 | Business men find it especially odd that the Labour party intends to introduce a minimum wage with one hand while with the other hand it would remove our tax cuts for the lowest paid . |
| 3 | Firstly , the arm spines are long , up to 2 segments long while in the other species they tend to equal only one arm segment and secondly the skin of the disk is not thickened obscuring the plates beneath , although this may be an artefact due to the dried condition of the holotype there is usually some indication of a skin covering even in dried specimens . |
| 4 | She was holding a net curtain to one side with the gold-ringed fingers of one hand , while in the other hand she held to her mouth a long white ebony cigarette holder on which she drew constantly as she watched the visitor enter her neighbour 's house . |
| 5 | With one hand people are placing children while on the other hand they are still encouraging the natural parents to think there 's some chance of having them back ! |
| 6 | Short 's paper demonstrates , on the one hand , the possibility , and indeed the necessity , of extending the scope of descriptive categories to a diverse range of text types , while on the other hand it stresses the need to refine our understanding of the conventions and expectations that are specific to each individual type of discourse . |
| 7 | One extreme assumption was that demand would mirror the demographic decline , while at the other extreme there would only be a shallow decline in demand due to increases in both the proportions of school leavers wanting to advance their education and in the number of mature entrants . |
| 8 | while at the other end its tail swayed |
| 9 | At one end of the spectrum of aims and aspirations stood the need to turn out adaptable workers , suitable for a developing labour-market ; while at the other end there was the desire to educate young people for their role as adults in the evolving mass democracy . |
| 10 | Senna , on around £10 million a year , is at the top of the driver 's pay league , while at the other end there is not shortage of hustlers , pulling sponsorship deals of their own to buy seats with less wealthy teams . |