Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] while [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Farm income doubled between 1940 and 1943 while farm debts shrank to half the figure of the early depression period . |
| 2 | There has always been an unresolved tension in the English and Welsh educational systems between the view that education is broad and general while training is specific and vocational . |
| 3 | These components are characteristics of speech which are constantly present and observable while speech is going on . |
| 4 | My own suggestion that we were dealing with a whole nest of Mata Haris was declared plausible but incorrect while Team C , consisting of two middle-aged couples , produced two theories , the second of which named me as a potential mole ! |
| 5 | Scott-Scobie 's strength was that of the Foreign Office , faceless but continuous while PM 's came and went like lantern slides . |
| 6 | It is important to get your performers to hold the mike in a firm grip and to keep it and its connecting cable as still as possible while recording is in progress . |
| 7 | She also talked of naked greed , although it takes a curious kind of logic to see the deprived as greedy while company directors were awarding themselves large pay increases and the ‘ yuppies ’ in the city were making a great deal of money and spending it as conspicuously as possible . |