Example sentences of "[noun pl] while [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bombings appeared to indicate a new strategy of bombing tourist complexes while observing its declared suspension of military activities . |
| 2 | In the meantime , the Dragoons were floundering in the boggy ground , easy targets for the riflemen while finding it impossible to fire with any reasonable accuracy themselves . |
| 3 | Harnessing the evolutionists ' methods while jettisoning their ideologies was scarcely a difficult exercise since the libertarian theory patently did not hold together . |
| 4 | They can remain for many years in cold and hostile environments while retaining their toxicity , and they have a tendency to remain in living organisms . |
| 5 | Always drunk by journalists while writing their articles . |
| 6 | Our presence is not intended to be flashy and we want to minimize our risks while maximizing our opportunities . |
| 7 | The first , Organic Growers West Wales , was set up in the 1970s to facilitate the supply of produce to meet the growing demand from the supermarkets while supporting its members by guaranteeing markets and providing information on what crops are needed and what prices they will receive for them . |
| 8 | This approach allows us to offer a coherent politics , allying ourselves with people 's aspirations while fulfilling our true purpose of advancing the wider and longer-term interests of the whole community . |
| 9 | The EEC pursues the dual policies of denying its markets to goods from these countries while dumping its own subsidised products abroad , policies paid for at considerable cost by its own consumers and taxpayers respectively . |
| 10 | Another curious attribute of the powder is that when cooked out it helps to extract other flavours while losing its own . |
| 11 | Stoker then volunteered as unpaid dramatic critic of the Dublin Mail , for which he wrote for five years while retaining his clerkship . |
| 12 | This one is n't a novel , but a personal travelogue whose scenario can be summed-up thus : successful , celebrated author buys an old biplane and sets off across America to recreate the old barnstorming days while rediscovering himself and his country and … |
| 13 | In addition to the hazard of wearing the equipment for the first time , each man would have to walk more than 800 yards through the disused roadways while wearing it . |
| 14 | If so , Britain would be in the position of forbidding its own manufacturers from making unsafe goods while allowing them to be imported . |
| 15 | And the way that the Government has reduced the provision it makes for higher education erm is that it is has so far erm kept us with the same amount of resources while expecting us to take more students . |
| 16 | Does the Minister accept that it is entirely unsatisfactory to continue stonewalling on those questions while answering them in the press ? |
| 17 | Political hotheads were demanding a sell-off ; but no wouldbe purchaser dared tangle with the horrendous staff rostering costs , the problems of management control , the antiquated working conditions , the railway operating hazards that frustrate a crew 's best efforts while landing them with the blame and , not least , the ever-lurking cynicism of the media . |
| 18 | Whipping off in the Doc 's DeLorean time machine to find 2015 in Hill Valley , California , a purgatorial version of its former self , with the old labouring under hormonal treatment that has fuddled their brains while rejuvenating their bodies and the young equipped with weapons of world-destruction , Marty McFly returns to discover the mid-Eighties in even worse disarray . |
| 19 | Pig horror : New Zealand farmer Kenneth Johnson bled to death after being gored in the groin by one of his pigs while feeding them in a paddock on his small farm at Halkett in the South Island province of Canterbury . |
| 20 | On the contrary , the use of such materials will consolidate and extend our students ’ familiarity with computational techniques while introducing them to a relatively new and important range of historical source material . |
| 21 | Can you touch your toes while keeping your legs straight ? |
| 22 | How can we justify rich landowners taking public handouts while making their farmworkers redundant ? |
| 23 | In recent months it has been expanding its market research activities while offloading its education publishing division and other subsidiaries in a bid to slash debt . |
| 24 | Late-night scheduling has been a consistent feature of lesbian and gay programming , exploiting the gay audience 's motivation to watch these programmes while keeping them on the edges of broadcasting . |
| 25 | It is now more than a decade since the authors of the World Conservation Strategy , an influential report by WWF , IUCN and UNEP , defined conservation not in terms of cleaning pollution or saving whales but as ‘ the management of human use of the biosphere so that it may yield the greatest sustainable benefit to present generations while maintaining its potential to meet the needs and aspirations of future generations . ’ |
| 26 | I have tried to show how such an approach is necessary if language teaching is to draw maximal benefits from developments in the informing disciplines while retaining its own identity as a domain of enquiry which has to meet its own conditions of relevance and accountability . |
| 27 | But it will be important to make sure that the constitution of this agency , and its terms of reference , set out how it will harness the skills and resources of the financial institutions while keeping its direction firmly and independently in the hands of educationists . |
| 28 | It had entered into these relationships with the new category of institutions while retaining its role for the validation of degree-level courses from whatever direction they might come outside the universities . |
| 29 | Indeed , organizational life encourages us to give incorrect feedback , to be less than honest , to pander to our superiors while neglecting our subordinates , to play a multitude of political games . |
| 30 | Maman always said she fell for Daddy when she saw how precise and gentle he was with his fingers while filling his pipe . |