Example sentences of "and [adj] [noun sg] while [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The secretary-general of the Democratic Union , Piotr Nowina-Konopka , criticized the decision , saying that it was unacceptable that one twin should be responsible for defence and national security while the other , as head of Walesa 's presidential office , was advocating the dissolution of parliament and wanted to organize public pressure to this end . |
| 2 | The Empress was held up to obloquy as an empty and frivolous woman while the Emperor was denounced as a degenerate debauchee , their only common interests being a desire for power and extravagant spectacle . |
| 3 | The fairly long seek times of CD-ROM , caused by its CLV retrieval system , can still cause pauses of between a half and one second while the read head moves from one part of the disc to another . |
| 4 | These are a bit like pop-up books with foreground , middle ground and background to give perspective and , in movement , parallax , that is , near things apparently moving past each other in the foreground and middle ground while the background stands still , which is how motion is perceived in the real world seen from , say , a train . |
| 5 | By design I mean the shapes of the individual pieces and finished look while the reason for stocking stitch is that colour is often the only finishing touch a garment needs — texture and colour work sometimes but not always . |