Example sentences of "while [noun] [adv] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The two bodies labelled A and B in Fig. 2.3 carry corner cube mirrors C A A and C B while B also carried a beam splitter S. These optical components are used as elements of a Michelson interferometer ; the source is a stabilized He-Ne laser and the detector is a p-i-n photodiode .
2 While England thus had a monopoly power to buy colonial products , the sugar and tobacco and other products of the colonies were more or less guaranteed the entire English market by a system of preferential tariffs .
3 Churches remain at Maddington , Shrewton , and Rollestone , while Elston formerly had a chapel which may once have been a church .
4 While water certainly found a place in the past in the landscapes of famous gardeners like Capability Brown , this was scarcely water gardening as we know it today .
5 One of his two sixes off left-arm spinner henry went out of the ground , and play was held up while police vainly chased a thief who made off with the ball .
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