Example sentences of "while [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such features are not consistent with the idea that the peninsula was built by longshore drift from the east , unless such drift was active only for short periods while during the intervening time the drift was predominantly from the west . |
| 2 | The problem in a book of this kind is , of course , that in the northern hemisphere Betelgeux is higher than Rigel , while from the southern hemisphere the reverse is true , and from the equator the Hunter appears in a rather undignified sideways position . |
| 3 | In her wake , mud or no , came another French author , even more broad-minded , in the person of François Rabelais , while in the nineteenth century the spa 's literary connections became more exalted still when the great Romantic writers , Alfred de Vigny , Chateaubriand and George Sand all visited it . |
| 4 | In the former case the plan is unlikely to provide sufficient information to enable the boundaries to be accurately ascertained , while in the latter case the plan will reflect features on the ground rather than boundaries between different owners . |
| 5 | In one group , the stomachs were immediately excised , while in the other group the stomachs were perfused with saline for 180 minutes after the perfusion of ethanol , and unless stated , before they were processed for assessment of injury . |
| 6 | While in the long term the mother may well be able to obtain employment in Australia , as she has done in the past , understandably it would not be her wish or intention to do so in the short-term . |
| 7 | In the written test 47 per cent of the boys and 57 per cent of the girls obtained the correct answer , while in the mental test the corresponding figures were 34 per cent and 43 per cent respectively . |
| 8 | In Example 13 , from Schubert 's Impromptu Op. 142 No. 3 , one of the crotchets is lengthened in bar 2 ( a common form of change ) , while in the last bar the rhythmic cell is diminished by halving the time-values . |
| 9 | For one thing , as Jardine points out , while on the one hand the shift of wealth to the mercantile classes was leading to the break-up of the dress code , and enabling the socially mobile to appropriate , for purposes of inclusion , what were supposed to be signs of their exclusion , it was also the case that those who had ‘ arrived ’ socially often wanted to enforce the code against those who had not . |
| 10 | But , indeed , the whole general effect is to divorce Resident Tutors from the WEA ; the Resident Tutor would be excluded from urban areas , while on the other hand the WEA would be to say the least of it extremely circumscribed in rural areas . |
| 11 | The local structure is governed by chemical forces , while on the other hand the long-range order reflects the way structural units on the local scale pack together to form a three-dimensional solid . |
| 12 | The official exchange rate of US$1.00=0.56 roubles would continue to exist , but was rendered largely meaningless ( tourists already enjoyed a special rate of US$1.00=5.60 roubles , while on the black market the rate was around US$1.00=20 roubles ) . |
| 13 | At Iddo Island a long wooden building with a central gable and flanking verandas dominated the station complex , while on the northern extension the stations were all squat rectangular stone structures with a round-arched loggia on all four sides and with the name of the station sculpted on an entablature rising from the middle . |
| 14 | While at the other extreme the Christ on the cross was not the Son of God who had made his peace , who had just sighed , ‘ All is accomplished , ’ but the still-human man whose body was racked in agony . |
| 15 | A large number of places , particularly the smaller cities and towns of southern England , have been on the receiving end of all three major migration streams , while at the other extreme the large cities , particularly those in northern England and Scotland ( the ‘ urban north ’ ) , have acted as the main reservoir from which these flows have been drawn . |
| 16 | At one end the Council may approve a proposed course on the basis of the documents submitted by the College and without a visit to it , while at the other end the Council may consider a proposed course in full detail as at present . |
| 17 | While at the current time the main focus of this work has been to better assess need through localities , work is being undertaken to identify ways in which budgets could be allocated to localities and purchasing carried out at the local level . |
| 18 | Luce heard the man give a little grunt , while at the same instant the impact drove most of the breath from her body . |
| 19 | This would avoid any further deterioration of Franco-Prussian relations , while at the same time the succession to the Spanish Throne might also be resolved multilaterally . |
| 20 | In this way the homosexual writer is granted a dubious measure of liberal pity ( ‘ if only he had n't lived in such a repressive world ’ ) while at the same time the heterosexual critic distances the threatening possibility that a homosexual writer might have a great many insights into the codes , mechanisms and ideologies of heterosexuality itself . |
| 21 | By the 1940s and 1950s the Red Poll was one of Britain 's major breeds but , in the rush to set up new herds , breeding standards began to slip badly on the farm , while at the same time the invading Friesian , fed on concentrates , considerably outyielded the breed and by the early 1960s its popularity had tumbled . |
| 22 | This also permitted a closer coupling of the leading edge bridle attachments , while at the same time the ‘ cat 's cradle ’ cross-linking of the inner bridle lines served under flight tensions to restrain the leading edges from spreading apart . |
| 23 | John of Gaunt , it was proposed , would become a French prince and , through him , the link with England and its royal family would be maintained while at the same time the fundamental English objection that their king should not be a vassal of the king of France would be met . |
| 24 | In her other essay she considers the theme of female deceptiveness in those scriptures , arguing that it is the text itself which is deceptive through its failing to name the real problem : namely that the power relations which pertained between men and women forced women to seek to obtain their ends through underhand means , while at the same time the deviousness of women is used to justify their inferior position . |
| 25 | It also seems that applications to the tribunal selected for a pre-hearing assessment are more likely to proceed to a hearing than other cases , while at the same time the success rate for those who proceed in the face of an ‘ unlikely to succeed ’ warning is not very different from other cases ( DoE , 1988 ) . |
| 26 | Up on the Wolds , the Scots were looting and killing at Malton and around the villages of Kilham and Rudston ; shrewdly the prior of Bridlington sent a Scottish-born canon to Malton to negotiate for the safety of his house , while at the same time the priory prudently removed all its muniments , vestments and precious relics ( a piece of the true cross among them ) to Goxhill , in Lincolnshire , and left only eight canons with one chalice in Bridlington . |
| 27 | An economy may be highly efficient , in the sense that goods and services are produced with the minimum of waste and are allocated in accordance with the demand for them , while at the same time the basic needs of many go unsatisfied . |
| 28 | If the present value of the dividend stream ( D ) rose to £2500 , while at the same time the value of the index fell by x points , with no-arbitrage futures price would be [ ( 2400 - x ) × £25 - £2500 ] × 1.08 = £62100 - 27 x , and the basis would become 62 000 - 27 x - 60 000 + 25 x = 2100 — 2 x . |
| 29 | For some teachers not only was this difficult to plan and implement as an organizational strategy per se , but the increased demands imposed on them by the strategy meant that their opportunities for systematic and sustained monitoring of children 's progress were further reduced , while at the same time the increased levels of movement and disturbance in the classroom might adversely affect children 's concentration and time on task . |
| 30 | It tormented me beyond all endurance , while at the same time the awful silence of the terrible prison weighed me down . |