Example sentences of "[noun pl] while [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | HIGHLY-publicised incidents of patients who die on trolleys in accident and emergency units while waiting for a hospital bed are the rare consequences of the extreme pressure under which most units work . |
| 2 | I am continually reappraising in my own mind their strengths while looking for their weaknesses ( although there are depressingly few of these visible ) . |
| 3 | Volunteers in the sitting service have helped families lead relatively normal lives while caring for their loved one at home . |
| 4 | Paul Prescott had to learn more than a thousand lines while studying for five A levels . |
| 5 | Pennett owes his chance at Trent Bridge to Notts batsman Paul Johnson , who was impressed by his bowling in the Headingley nets while preparing for last winter 's England ‘ A ’ tour . |
| 6 | Tony Long , who sat on a government working party discussing the directive in the mid-1980s while working for the Council for the Protection of Rural England , now runs WWF 's Brussels office . |
| 7 | Yet , over the space of two days while waiting for Ryder to appear , guitarist Mark Day shows me his holiday snaps of Barbados , drummer Gaz Whelan is more preoccupied with the hassles of having a broken foot , while PD and Paul Ryder do n't so much brag as baulk at the very mention of drugs , seeming far more at home with talk of ‘ middle-eights ’ , ‘ mixing desks ’ and ‘ jamming grooves ’ . |
| 8 | Occasionally birds disturb mulches while looking for food |
| 9 | The 1924–25 series was the first in which the captains of each side had their birthdays while playing for their country . |
| 10 | A dolphin school will often divide up into subgroups while searching for food , which separate and spread out over a wide area of sea , still diving synchronously — evidence that they are probably in some form of acoustic contact . |
| 11 | The young composer practises his scales while waiting for a big break . |
| 12 | I pride myself on the efforts I have made to retain my individual values while working for my company . |
| 13 | Sarah Hunt , 74 , was left soaked in blood after holding her sister for at least 25 minutes while waiting for an ambulance to arrive after the tragedy in Bishop Auckland . |
| 14 | DARLINGTON Memorial Hospital managers are still investigating claims that a 90year-old woman was forgotten for three hours while waiting for an operation . |
| 15 | But 70-year-old Mr Lowes , who unearthed the historic treasures while searching for lost tools on Home Farm , at Hoxne , Suffolk last November , is totally relaxed about the whole thing . |
| 16 | There was some public outcry about the shooting , and the police would probably interfere with a lot of his business interests while looking for Connie Fraser . |
| 17 | Gavin Thurston , freelance cameraman , made the acquaintance of the chigger Entrombicula batatas while filming for Trials of Life on Barro Colorado Island in Panama . |
| 18 | In all large companies there is a lot of comfort derived from administrative systems that purport to be ‘ fair ’ but in reality remove from individual managers the responsibility of trying to reward and administer people 's careers while allowing for differences which are immeasurable in quantitative terms . |
| 19 | A BIRDS EYE VIEW : Visitors make the most of the sideshows while waiting for the start of It 's a Knockout and Superstars . |
| 20 | With NaCl solution in the bath and high K + solution in the pipette ( V c o m =0 mV ) , the addition of 0.1 mM dibutyryl cAMP failed to elicit K + channel activity in 17 cell attached patches while recording for periods of up to 15 minutes , suggesting that K + channels in HGT-1 cells are not regulated by intracellular camp . |