Example sentences of "while [v-ing] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | India supports the Kabul government , much to the annoyance of Pakistan and most western countries ; but while allowing for the mischievous nature of Mr Gandhi 's remark , they suspect that it is no more than the truth . |
| 2 | I encountered an old lady of a more awkward sort while canvassing for the Tory candidate in Crosby — a by-election subsequently won for the SDP by Shirley Williams . |
| 3 | Either way , the meaty hunk of French boeuf , who we rate as the screen 's answer to Ian Botham , seems considerably ill at ease as a father trying to fend off the local romeos from his daughter while holidaying on the enchanted island . |
| 4 | Why else should I still be yearning after a man whom I knew to be a murderer while shrinking from the innocent Syl whose only crime was that I found him unattractive ? |
| 5 | One morning , while driving through the Old City , he turned quite suddenly into the Meena Bazaar near the Jama Masjid . |
| 6 | Belinda listened on tenterhooks to one side of the discussion as Tom somehow managed to present his case forcefully while driving at the same time . |
| 7 | Mr Goodson , who became interested in the sonar capacity of dolphins after hearing one while swimming off the Welsh coast , has experimented with various shapes of sound reflectors . |
| 8 | The charge stated that with intent to defraud the Sun Alliance Insurance Group , and while acting with the dead man , Sutherland set fire to the eight-roomed house at Pilton Drive North , Edinburgh . |
| 9 | It is claimed that with intent to defraud the Sun Alliance Insurance Group and while acting with the dead man , Sutherland set fire to the house at Pilton Drive North , Edinburgh . |
| 10 | Although only fragments remain , Dunseverick manages not to be outdone in the legend stakes ; Conal Caernach who lived here is said to have witnessed the crucifixion of Christ while serving in the Roman army . |
| 11 | Elected as President in 1987 amid controversy over his war record while serving in the German Army , Waldheim had not been received officially by any Western country , and the World Jewish Congress criticized Kohl for his " shocking lack of moral sensitivity " in breaching this de facto Western diplomatic boycott . |
| 12 | If they want a kitsch little anthem they can sing while aspiring to the next set of double glazing or automated garden gnomes , that 's okay by me , because that song is a BOMB delivered from Scotland . ’ |
| 13 | While waiting for the great day we watched nearly every match of the 1990 World Cup , particularly the progress of England and Ireland in the early rounds . |
| 14 | If , while waiting in the rush-hour queue at Sloane Square tube station , you chance to look up , you will see a large iron pipe . |
| 15 | Paul Warhurst , Sheffield Wednesday 's make-shift striker , was rushed to hospital with a serious head injury sustained while scoring in the 8-1 win over Spora . |
| 16 | Members of a contracted-in occupational scheme may contract out of the State earnings Related Pension Scheme ( SERPS ) through a PP , while remaining in the occupational scheme ( a solution not all that different from buying free-standing AVCs with the added benefit of extra tax relief advantages ) . |
| 17 | Then the moralist had better keep quiet on the matter , while turning to the social engineer to modify the social situation so that ‘ moral goodness ’ becomes ‘ the best policy ’ . |
| 18 | A French general , several times in the line at Verdun , recalled to the author that while marching through the devastated zone his soldiers never sang ; ‘ and you know French soldiers sing a lot ’ . |
| 19 | I wrote the poem Zenobia while staying on the Greek island of Crete . |
| 20 | Alternatively , we can also hypothesise that if there is a change in proprioception , pointing with the non-preferred hand should show no adaptive shift , while pointing with the preferred hand at the non-visual target should show the same adaptive shift as that for the visual target . |
| 21 | If you do n't succeed in lifting the foot , then simply knock it outwards with your rear guard hand while punching with the other hand . |
| 22 | A WOMAN motorist was spotted by the police reading her ‘ stars ’ in a magazine while travelling along the Glenshane Pass , a court heard yesterday . |
| 23 | It was a thought to ponder while reading about the short-nosed shrew and the harmlessness of the false chanterelle . |
| 24 | Thus Houston attempts to think through the difference which television 's textual specificity presents to theories of the psychoanalytic and semiotic subject , while recognizing at the same time the interrelationship between that specificity and the specificities of institution and viewing . |
| 25 | On this issue therefore , I find it curious that so many people can become excited at the humanitarianism of the young Marx while choosing at the same time to ignore the inhumanity of the more mature Marx . |
| 26 | While standing in the same street , joy would notice the creative window displays and smiling faces , hear the laughter and smell the roasting chestnuts on the street corner ; while Gloom would see the traffic , litter and inflated prices , hear the honking horns and smell the exhaust fumes . |
| 27 | A free school was built in Sancton before 1609 by the local benefactor Sir Marmaduke Langdale , renowned for his bravery while fighting in the Civil War for Charles Stuart 's cause . |
| 28 | France , with a much smaller manpower than Germany ( at most some 6 million potential servicemen to Germany 's nearly 10 million ) , also employed conscription but with a different object , for the French regarded their conscripts principally as reserves for such tasks as garrison duty , while relying on the professional army of some 1 million men quickly to win an opening campaign and then the war . |
| 29 | Rajiv Gandhi , the 46-year-old Congress ( I ) party president and former Prime Minister , was assassinated in southern India on May 21 , while campaigning in the general election which had started the previous day . |
| 30 | While participating in the second Rugby World Cup was a great learning experience for the United States national team ( despite a 0–3 record and being outscored 113–24 ) , for US rugby this recent World Championship was a promotional disappointment . |