Example sentences of "while [prep] the [det] [noun] [ex0] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Italy and the USA constitute rogue cases in the sense that in the former case there was political interest in change , while in the latter case there was an extraordinary mass interest in psychiatry . |
| 2 | HOW dare Norman Lamont decide the Queen should n't pay tax while at the same time there is talk of taxing people on invalidity benefit ? |
| 3 | At the ‘ top end ’ the peculiarly British mutual accommodation and interpenetration of the bourgeoisie and aristocracy has licensed an extension of the term ‘ middle class ’ until there is only a vestigial ‘ upper class ’ against which to draw a contrast , while at the same time there have been successive waves of new recruits which have enlarged the base of the ‘ class ’ : the new groups of professionals , managers and technical experts which expanded from the latter half of the nineteenth century onward with the development of capitalist industry and trade ; the more recent expansion of salaried employment in education , research , health , social welfare , administration and planning . |
| 4 | Whatever was affecting the rate time passed at seemed to obey the inverse square law , the phenomenon apparently radiating from each clock face , while at the same time there was a more generalised sort of effect emanating from the huge central mechanism buried somewhere in the castle 's many lower levels , making everything down there happen more quickly . |
| 5 | Over the past three years a large number of deep mines have closed , while at the same time there has been pressure to develop and expand the open-cast and private sectors of the industry . |
| 6 | Finally , if the rise in real output per capita is caused by an expansion of investment goods industries and public sector expenditures on the civil service and defence , while at the same time there is a decline in consumer goods industries , then current economic welfare may fall rather than rise . |