Example sentences of "[is] [conj] while [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Latest news from the expedition to climb Ultar , Pakistan 's highest unclimbed summit at nearly 7,300 metres , is that while no result has emerged from the tussle with the main objective , Mick Fowler and Craig Jones have made the first British ascents of Bublimiting ( 5,750 metres ) and Hunza Peak ( 6,250 metres ) . |
| 2 | The reason I make this point is that while a retired architect may be covered by the PI policy of the firm he has left , that cover will only extend to the work he was involved with while a member of that practice . |
| 3 | The report concluded that ‘ all the evidence is that while a gradual change in eating patterns may yield slower results , those results are far more likely to prove permanent ’ . |
| 4 | An important implication of this is that while a particular situation may give rise to various differing , and sometimes conflicting needs ( the needs of teachers , parents , other pupils , the LEA and indeed the LEA 's professional advisers ) , the conceptual focus upon the child encouraged by the Act inhibits the development of a theoretical framework within which the interplay of needs can be examined . |
| 5 | One result of this constant paradox is that while the police make statements welcoming research and applaud intellectual debate , they strive to impose rigid control over a system of preferred rules and regulations to negate open enquiry , so that systems are quietly but firmly deployed to deny the critical approach — as we shall see . |
| 6 | One of the ironies of the 1980s is that while the East Coast main line started to take delivery of its second-generation 125mph equipment , the maximum speed of West Coast trains had only moved from 100 to 110mph . |
| 7 | The view here is that while the activities of physical sciences , too , are amenable to a social explanation , there are de facto different modes of explanation and substantiation . |
| 8 | The problem is that while the previous three Munros are all close together , Geal-Charn is bloody miles away . |
| 9 | My own belief is that while the ordinary , naive world of facts is real , so are the emotional , the transcendent and the ideal worlds which are only a newer form of perception or area of thought and have scope for limitless extension . |
| 10 | But mud slung in such quantities and with so much acrimony is bound to stick somewhere , and the overall impression being given is that while the law may be an ass , the profession of psychology is an even bigger one . |
| 11 | What my source was up to , I have no idea ; all I do know is that while the world was waiting to discover how Mrs Thatcher was ever going to be toppled , the most unlikely possibility was that she might admit she had been wrong about something and ask for her P45 without more ado . |
| 12 | The NSPCC view is that while the current Criminal Justice Act will introduce some welcome improvements , it does not go far enough . |
| 13 | The interesting thing is that while the hard core fan is obviously going to buy a strip , we are selling more and more of them as fashion and leisure garments , and not just to kids . ’ |
| 14 | What is radical in Habermas 's proposal is that while the possibility of speaking the truth is enstructured in every utterance , all the other modes of grounding truth become sources of distortion ; historical world-view , ideology , scientism , material determinism , reduction to class consciousness . |
| 15 | The problem for companies like ICI is that while the transitional arrangements last , the power suppliers frequently can not bid for their custom because the suppliers are limited to a 15% slice of the REC 's business , rising to 25% in 1994 . |
| 16 | The concern is that while the criminal derives profit from the depiction of the story , the victim remains damaged by the experience . |
| 17 | What is interesting about them is that while the development corporations acquired powers that gave them a great deal of autonomy within their own territories , there is today a variety of questions to be raised about the extent to which their ‘ success ’ was secured at the expense of other policies to which they ‘ ought ’ to have related . |
| 18 | The reality is that while the professional/client model is attractive , people who come into contact with mental health services often do not feel they exert the kind of influence that , for example , a person might have when he is instructing his solicitor . |
| 19 | The main problem is that while the software can generate the presentaion very quickly the slides themselves do take time to image , it 's not like taking a conventional photograph . |
| 20 | The problem is that while the species of ophiacanthids are generally well described , most of the genera and families are ill-defined . |
| 21 | The most surprising feature of these lamellae is that while the molecular chains may be as long as 1000 nm , the direction of the chain axis is across the thickness of the platelet . |
| 22 | In considering these figures it must be noted is that while the completion rates recorded for SEs in the 25 degree courses in the 5 institutions studied may well reflect overall completion rates for all SEs in these institutions , there is no evidence on this point , and Johnes and Taylor ( 1989 ) report considerably higher completion rates for the two universities involved in their study of the 1980 entry cohort ( Bradford 84% and Leeds 89.1 % ) . |
| 23 | The feeling at directorial level is that while the board accepts responsibility for the running of the club it is entitled to quiz Brady if a problem has been identified with regard to team matters . |
| 24 | This is because while the sentence is an important unit in written language ( where the boundaries of a sentence are clearly defined by the use of punctuation ) , it is less obviously a unit in spoken language . |