Example sentences of "while [pers pn] be [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While we were there the sun shone from a clear blue sky , birds skimmed over a translucent sea and amiable West Indians smiled at us . |
| 2 | Indeed , while it is not the brief of this chapter to comment on state pension provision , it must be remarked that in the early 1960s , as subsequently , it was chiefly the low level of state provision which made the presence or absence of entitlement to occupational pension benefits so crucial to many household budgets , not least to lone female households . |
| 3 | While it is certainly the case that Paisley was prepared to use militant rhetoric in denouncing O'Neillism , it is also the case that he was a vocal critic of private initiative in vigilantism and of attacks on Catholics . |
| 4 | While it is often the case that methods are treated as if they were tools in a tool box ready and waiting to be used for their appropriate task , it is vitally important that any aspiring methodologist does not take this too seriously but tries , instead , to understand the presumptions which underpin methods . |
| 5 | While it is undoubtedly the case that sociology does attract people with a strong concern over social issues and problems , such preoccupations do not exhaust the subject-matter of the discipline . |
| 6 | The attractants appear to change geographically and seasonally , while it is perhaps the blending of compounds that restricts the number of bee species attracted , although there are overlaps between them and the bees ' choices also vary geographically and seasonally . |