Example sentences of "while in the [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Japan it will be to the particular company , while in the Arab world it is the family which is the key to social , business and over-arching structures . |
| 2 | Both evolved a stable set of industrial relations , but while in the latter case it was achieved within the context of increasing output , the industry in Scotland was characterised by declining output and productivity and eventual collapse of the traditional spinning and weaving branches . |
| 3 | The choice between searching for the least or most distant neighbours may depend on the experimental ( or even presentational ) needs because in the former case the algorithm finds more detailed and possibly informationally redundant order of probes , while in the latter case it finds a minimal set of probes connected by clones spanning large regions of the genome . |
| 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 | While in the fifteenth century it was rare to designate a man by the title ‘ shipowner ’ , this occupation became commoner in the sixteenth ( 100 ) . |
| 6 | And while in the short term it wo n't replace other forms of communication such as fax or telex , in time these will become as relevant to our business as semaphore or the carrier pigeon were hundreds of years ago . |
| 7 | In early modern England the proportion of solitary 65-year-olds was only 10 per cent , while in the mid-nineteenth century it came as low as 7.5 . |