Example sentences of "[conj] while [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are therefore particularly prone to react to extra stress either at home or while using the Department 's services . |
| 2 | Alistair can be contacted via , or while visiting the site , which is open to the public on the majority of Severn Valley Railway operating days . |
| 3 | Well now there 's the chance to do just that while supporting the Worldwide Fund for Nature ( WWF ) . |
| 4 | I came to the project from a background in and around off-site education , convinced that while removing a disaffected minority from the mainstream might give those pupils a better chance of survival and their teachers relief from extreme disruption , it did nothing to change the factors which produced that disaffection . |
| 5 | A very simple network , that while preserving a constant amplitude introduces a variable phase shift through adjustment of a single resistor , is shown in figure 8.12(a) . |
| 6 | Perhaps the shopkeeper should have a panic button under the counter to press during such a confrontation , and while humouring the shopper by pretending to go and look for some grey ones , stout men could rush in and restrain the customer before he can make it to his Access card . |
| 7 | They budgeted for a pay award in line with inflation and while welcoming the ‘ well deserved ’ rise in teachers ' salaries say they can not fund it without cutting school budgets . |
| 8 | During the next course they were faced by the representation of a ‘ man of warre ’ standing in fire ( associated with summer and the choleric humour ) ; and while consuming the third course they were confronted by the form of a man with a ‘ sikelle in his hande ’ standing in a river ( signifying water and the phlegmatic humour associated with autumn and harvest-time ) . |
| 9 | Q Recently my son enlarged our garden pond and while moving the fish into their temporary quarters , we noticed some of the Koi had protruding eyes . |
| 10 | Hughes and Cole had drivers report objects that ‘ attracted their attention ’ while actually driving a car and while watching a film of the same route . |
| 11 | We met in Bologna and while discussing the painting I informed him that the original had turned up at Wildenstein 's in New York , and had recently been sold to a New York private collector and that an article of mine was in proof , publishing the New York picture as the original . |
| 12 | Under standby conditions , the circuit requires 20mA approximately and while operating the solenoid valve , 200mA . |
| 13 | Bees learn colour only in the final three seconds as they land : the colour visible to the bee before the landing sequence , the colours it sees while standing on the flower to feed and while circling the blossom before flying off , simply never register . |
| 14 | And while upsetting the seventh-seeded England international , Jamie Hickox , on Saturday , Davies told the referee that Hickox did not deserve a let because the ball had been ‘ tight , very tight , as tight as the SRA ’ . |
| 15 | We undertook a comparative study of five areas of the curriculum — English , mathematics , science , humanities/environmental studies and art — and while acknowledging the many examples of stimulating and challenging practice , noted problems of imbalance in each of them . |
| 16 | This means keeping all the paperwork relevant to the successful candidate , including the job/personnel specifications , the advertisement used and most especially the notes you yourself made during the interview , immediately afterward and while making the final selection . |
| 17 | These paints are available in a number of natural and unnatural colours and while giving the pool a good waterproof finish , are generally considered to be rather expensive to contemplate for large expanses . |
| 18 | The castle is a human body and while retaining a conventional castle architecture , Spenser sets out to show how the well-organised body is a fortress which can maintain itself from attack by savage exterior forces . |
| 19 | But while reasserting the old , he also broke new ground in the claim that he was rightful lord over all men in the area who had hitherto had no lord . |
| 20 | Whether while winning the first US Open title in 1968 as an amateur or out-thinking Jimmy Connors in that classic Wimbledon final of 1975 , Ashe proved himself one of the game 's most gifted competitors . |