Example sentences of "[num] while [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reporting for the first time on its environmental emissions , the UK subsidiary of Swiss chemicals and drugs giant Ciba-Geigy says it increased the amount of waste it incinerated in 1991 while reducing the amount sent for landfill . |
| 2 | Mikel Marku , a 62-year-old lawyer from Péc , was stopped by police on the evening of 31 October 1991 while driving a friend 's car . |
| 3 | Vince Hilaire was a supremely talented winger who came to the fore in Palace 's great FA Youth Cup-winning side of 1977 , and then matured in Division 2 in 1977–78 while helping the club retain the Youth Cup at the same time . |
| 4 | ( Boudin was finally arrested in October 1981 while fleeing an armed robbery . ) |
| 5 | The effect of making them arrestable is that it gives the police certain powers of entry and search under section 17 and 18 while investigating the offences in question . |
| 6 | Following a highly successful lecture tour of America in 1962 , described in America at Last ( 1965 ) , he died suddenly 1 July 1964 while crossing the Mediterranean . |
| 7 | In July 1914 while preparing the volume for publication , he confided to his close friend Florence Henniker : ‘ Some of them I rather shrink from printing — those I wrote just after Emma died , when I looked back at her as she had originally been , & when I felt miserable lest I had not treated her considerately in her latter life . |
| 8 | Mohammed Boudiaf , president of the High Committee of State ( HCS ) , was assassinated on June 29 while addressing an audience at the Arts and Culture Club in Annaba , eastern Algeria . |
| 9 | Wang Hongwen , 58 , died on Aug. 3 while serving a life sentence imposed in 1981 for his role as a member of the so-called " Gang of Four " . |
| 10 | But this year organisers have gone in the other direction , increasing the number of participants from 20 to 32 while shortening the length of the competition . |
| 11 | By coincidence , he chose publishing assistant Lizzy Lamplugh , 22 , the sister of estate agent Suzy , who disappeared in 1986 while showing a client around a London house . |
| 12 | Despite the chill he caught on New Year 's Day 1934 while watching a game at Bury , Chapman decided to go to Sheffield the next day to watch the Wednesday , Arsenal 's next opponents at Highbury . |
| 13 | So , from any of these you can ‘ have a go ’ at windsurfing for the odd day or two while enjoying the good food and good company of the Houseparty . |
| 14 | Two alternatives to a transformer for splitting the phase of a signal are the potential-divider arrangement of figure 8.11(b) , which attenuates the input signal by a factor two while splitting the phase , and the transistor phase splitter of figure 8.11(c) , which has virtually unity gain provided R is large enough . |
| 15 | Karen Reilly , 18 , and Martin Peake , 17 , were shot dead in Northern Ireland in September 1990 while driving a stolen car . |