Example sentences of "in the meanwhile " in BNC.

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1 The remaining passengers — there were not many of them — had in the meanwhile managed to make their way , by scrambling from the outside of one car to the next , to the safety of the solid wooden landing stage .
2 In the final stages of such inflation , paper money ceases to have any value and people resort to barter , and in the meanwhile the country 's financial system disintegrates .
3 Much research and debate is required before we have a feminist theory of technology ; in the meanwhile , this book will serve a useful purpose if it places the problem on the agenda of women 's studies .
4 The shell , in the meanwhile , is not discarded .
5 ‘ Of course we 'll meet in the meanwhile — lots and lots of times , but that will be a special tryst .
6 In the meanwhile , careers officers suggest that graduates lower their expectations of the sort of work they will get when they leave university .
7 In the meanwhile , Spence was emulating O'Malley 's 60 with 7-under-par figures ( one eagle and five birdies ) for his last six holes .
8 In the meanwhile , as the sun shines warmly on an idle Irish summer , the prospect of world champions Australia arriving here int he autumn for five matches — four provincial and the test at Lansdowne Road on October 31 — manages to keep the blood cool enough , thank you .
9 In the meanwhile they must wait , and engage in competition for the father 's place ; what is known as ‘ sibling rivalry ’ .
10 In the meanwhile , we did not feel it right to make aspects of knowledge about language in the programmes of study ( which will be legally obligatory for every pupil working at levels 5 to 10 ) too extensive or demanding .
11 In the meanwhile , the library 's users are forced to bring their own electric lights to the reading room .
12 In the meanwhile , it is an awkward period .
13 In the meanwhile , the Constable bought in at Sotheby 's last month at £850,000 may have given the Principal pause for thought .
14 In the meanwhile , he is said to be hurt and shocked by the hostility of the reaction to the strategy proposals .
15 In the meanwhile , a new Leviathan has surfaced in cultural life .
16 In the meanwhile , the cautious and complex decrees of the first liberalising steps decided last year were ratified by the Prime Minister last month .
17 In the meanwhile , restorer Saveli Yamshchikov thinks that some of this war booty is already seeping out of the country .
18 In the meanwhile , the British system devised by Lord Waverley forty years ago to retain the works of art most essential to Britian 's artistic and historical heritage will be a largely pointless administrative hoop-la as works of art are declared to be national patrimony by the committees of experts , and then are exported anyway for lack of funds .
19 Now they are going to appeal , but in the meanwhile the work is going on and the bulldozers are ready and waiting on the west side of the excavations , right up against the seventeenth-century cellars which were found intact , still full of bottles and vessels .
20 In the meanwhile the Partito Populare spearheads opposition by those who think the Reina Sofía is too expensive , that the Pta584 million voted for purchases that year is too much .
21 In the meanwhile , more than 130 works from the Bremen Old Master drawings collection , also removed to the Soviet Union at the end of the war , are scheduled to go on display at the Hermitage , St Petersburg , on 18 November .
22 In the meanwhile , works by the Colombian artist Botero are omnipresent , from the Champs Elysée to the Grand Palais ( see The Art Newspaper No. 21 , Oct. 1992 , p. 31 ) .
23 In the meanwhile , England and her king were to live for many years on the reputation won on that autumn day .
24 On 17 July 1429 , less than ten weeks after relieving Orleans , and having in the meanwhile brought back to French rule a number of towns , including Troyes where the fateful treaty had been sealed in 1420 , Joan stood in the cathedral at Reims watching the dauphin as he underwent the rite of coronation , the rite by which his predecessors had become full kings of France .
25 In the meanwhile , we may perhaps see here a reflection of a decline of noble and , possibly , of literary influence on the place accorded to the battle in war , in which it was no longer regarded as the great opportunity for individual acts of courage , but more as the culmination of a military process whose aim was the achievement of a particular political goal .
26 Roamers of the countryside , surprise was their chief weapon , great daring being shown in what some regarded as the finest military feats of all , the capture of walled towns and castles which were then ransomed , having perhaps been used in the meanwhile as bases for military activity further afield .
27 The apocalypse may have been postponed indefinitely , but there remains the assurance that it will eventually come , at the end of time ; and , in the meanwhile , there are rewards to be reaped in heaven .
28 In the meanwhile , it appears that the over-elaborate Kenyan system of import licensing has had a more dampening effect on the animal spirits of entrepreneurs than the more selective Brazilian CACEX system .
29 In the meanwhile the producer is arranging to record voices and music .
30 together with the Bishop of Chester , applied on 12th October for his removal ; the Goldsmiths complied , paid £5 to a Mr. Nicholson who had taught at the School in the meanwhile , and made John Cobb the new Master on 8th January 1602 .
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