Example sentences of "whilst [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whilst as a worker I might see the process , to me very important , I think there 's a lot of concrete outcomes for young people feel we have achieved this , we did this for ourselves , it 's ours , we own it . |
| 2 | On the far side of the screen was Standard Four , whilst through a door at the back right hand side of this room was Standard Five . |
| 3 | One night they crept into our house but he had arranged for us to sleep on the roof whilst through a crack he could watch our sleeping chamber . |
| 4 | For some this related to their abilities with their present enterprises whilst for others it related to the future when they might undertake a new enterprise . |
| 5 | For the photographer there 's a chance to win the coveted title of the Fuji Wedding Photographer of the Year , whilst for the featured couple the top prize is £1,000 . |
| 6 | For Russell , this was an exceptional opening into the mysteries of the craft , whilst for the College of Arms it was a great mistake as their involvement in funerals quickly declined , the embers briefly coming to life with the public obsequies of Queen Mary in 1695 . |
| 7 | Taking items at random , for 17 shillings one got a ‘ good inch elm Coffin , smoothed , oiled , and finished with one row round of black or white nails , a plate of inscription , four handles , lined and pillow ’ ; whilst for £9 one could buy the pièce de résistance , a ‘ 1½ inch Oak Case , covered with superfine cloth , finished three rows all round , and six ornamental diamonds , with best nails , lead or brass plate , glory and urn , four pairs of cherub handles , and four dozen rays or stars ’ . |
| 8 | Whilst for some the experience of ageing does bring with it a degree of social disengagement , it is far from being a ‘ natural ’ or inevitable event . |
| 9 | Also starring among the patterns are three motif sweaters designed by school children who were prize-winners at the Hobby Horse show in Cwmbran , whilst for animal lovers we have Wendy Phillips ' giant panda chewing his bamboo or Iris Bishop 's fox slinking through the September woods . |
| 10 | An earlier , and still very useful , book-length exposition is the volume published by the International Labour Office ( 1974 ) , whilst for the EEC countries there is the survey of the Commission of the European Communities ( 1979 ) . |
| 11 | Whilst for the teachers these lads are ‘ trouble makers ’ , the lads have their own interpretation : |
| 12 | Ron Ranson 's Big Brush Watercolour is full of tips , ideas and techniques for all , whilst for the beginner I recommend Ashley Jackson 's series of six tapes A Brush with Ashley ( £19.99 each from Ashley Jackson Galleries ) and , of course , Alwyn Crawshaw 's marvellously enthusiastic , instructive and wide-ranging series A Brush with Art ( £59.99 for the set of four videos from Teaching Art Ltd ) . |
| 13 | Love within a partnership in which , for one of you , the love is still there and yearning to grow and develop , whilst for the other , it 's gone , it 's over , it 's finished . |
| 14 | When the pin misses the hole , but enters the block then only three surfaces exist within the sub-space ; for the pin its circular end and the inserted portion of the cylinder whilst for the block there exists only a single outer surface ( see Figure 3.10 ) . |
| 15 | For Tsongas this was considered a reward for his diligent and intelligent campaigning in the state , whilst for Clinton it represented a powerful resurgence for a campaign which , in early February , was being widely written off as doomed . |
| 16 | This suggests that , as expected , for the generally more dangerous junctions feelings of risk are associated with improved subsequent recognition , whilst for the less dangerous ones this is not the case . |
| 17 | Undoubtedly the succession was an important issue ; the terms Whig and Tory had been coined in the first place to describe different sides taken during the Exclusion controversy , whilst for a long time after the Glorious Revolution Whigs continued to be able to embarrass the Tories by alleging that their attachment to the divine-right , hereditary succession meant that deep-down they were Jacobite sympathisers . |
| 18 | In November 1982 the scheme was announced , in September 1983 projects were started with 14 LEAs , in September 1984 a further 48 LEAs joined , in September 1985 another 12 , whilst for 1989 , 28 more are under consideration — at that stage over 90% of all LEAs will be participating . |
| 19 | The battle was fought out in three short Parliaments which met between 1679 and 1681 , after which politics was driven out-of-doors for the rest of the reign , whilst during the period of the Tory Reaction a successful campaign of legal recriminations taken against the political enemies of the Court meant that the first Whigs as a political movement were almost destroyed . |
| 20 | Gummow J. accepted that agreements made between the government of Australia and foreign Governments are non-justiciable , but held that ‘ the taking of a step in the conduct of international relations , whilst of itself neither creating private rights nor imposing such liabilities , may be a step in a process which as a whole may have that effect . ’ |
| 21 | Only three Tories served as directors of the Bank of England between 1694 and 1715 , compared to a total of thirty Whigs , whilst of the known directors of the New East India Company in the period 1698 – 1708 , again only three were Tories , as opposed to thirteen Whigs . |
| 22 | What is discussed are those rules specifically dealing with futures transactions as well as those rules which , whilst of more general application , have specific significance in the context of futures . |
| 23 | And schools are required to co-operate with each other in some respects , whilst below the surface competing like mad for pupils . |
| 24 | This was not really convenient as space was tied-up on the dressing floors , whilst below ground it had to be handled so that it was not inadvertently intermixed with other material . |
| 25 | Unlike the blackboard model , it embodies only weak interactions , whilst unlike the hierarchical model it uses a uniform global data structure . |
| 26 | On the foreign exchange market the pound was stronger in quiet trading against the dollar , it firmed 0.4 of a cent to $1.640 whilst against the Deutschmark it rose to DM2.7568 . |
| 27 | Unlike previous years , however , the significance of the Iowa contests was reduced by the fact that neither of Bush 's two challengers ( Buchanan and former Ku Klux Klansman David Duke ) contested the caucus , whilst amongst the Democrats it had long been accepted that the contest would be won by Tom Harkin , one of the state 's representatives in the Senate , and so there had been a minimal amount of campaigning . |
| 28 | In an adjoining field a sower , a basket cradled in his hands , scattered the life-bearing seeds , whilst behind him two young boys danced and cavorted , swinging their slings to drive off the marauding crows and ravens . |
| 29 | Lady Horne told them to sit whilst behind them the girl lit candles . |
| 30 | The person trying to commit suicide has decided either rationally or whilst under extreme duress that their life is no longer bearable and that they must end it . |