Example sentences of "while [verb] for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , most of the literature does not satisfactorily account for the simultaneous determination of wages and membership while allowing for the interaction between the free rider problem and workers ' tastes . |
| 2 | Gregory sees her as the prime mover in this , while allowing for the importance of divine intervention in Clovis 's victory against the Alamans . |
| 3 | But this poses a dilemma for the vigneron because the vine , once pruned , is at its most vulnerable to frost , while to wait for the danger of frost to subside would be to waste the vine 's limited and precious energy : the decision of when to prune can prove an expensive one . |
| 4 | Where courses are offered at only one teaching centre , it would be possible to make significant progress by initially devolving responsibility for assessment only to the college , while maintaining for the time being central control of the course content . |
| 5 | Specific offline requests from LIFESPAN users are included while checking for the limit having been reached . ) |
| 6 | Earlier in the day , while looking for the swimming-pool , I had found myself in a park containing the largest number of fire-engines I had ever seen . |
| 7 | He also looked for signs of abnormal radioactivity in the vicinity while seeking for the source of the heat and gas but nothing significant turned up . |
| 8 | While waiting for the call-up , various opportunities or openings of an official nature came my way , and I was summoned for interview , usually at extremely short notice , in connection with some of them . |
| 9 | course in Education at Southampton University while waiting for the divorce to come through , but while I like Oman , I do not feel ‘ stretched ’ in this post and also ( now I have reached the age of fifty ) miss being in England with children and family . |
| 10 | Indeed , it is said that he composed one aria while waiting for the rice to cook . |
| 11 | It was lunchtime so I bought a packet of Jaffa Cakes and more lager , which I drank while waiting for the ferry to start boarding . |
| 12 | While waiting for the kettle to boil , she stood at the window watching the rain . |
| 13 | A BIRDS EYE VIEW : Visitors make the most of the sideshows while waiting for the start of It 's a Knockout and Superstars . |
| 14 | He then ordered a car to call for him the next morning for a similar occasion and was felled by a stroke while waiting for the lift . |
| 15 | For John Prescot today , not a discrete silence while waiting for the leader 's call , he was making it clear that he wanted a swap to one of the top economic jobs . |
| 16 | While waiting for the bath to fill , she reflected on a fragmentary dream which , thanks to Dmitri , had surfaced in her memory . |
| 17 | Workers could not clear the tunnels of smoke while waiting for the rescue teams to arrive . |
| 18 | She realised with a shock that , while waiting for the disaster she believed was inevitable , she had been holding her breath . |
| 19 | The reading undertaken while under stress — while waiting for the dentist , for example , or while sitting in a plane during turbulence , or when fatigued at the end of the day — is usually of this order . |
| 20 | Her stomach was doing weird things , and she was about to launch into some inane chit-chat to take her mind off the sensation when Nicole , while paying for the dress , said to her , ‘ Actually , I want to speak with you . ’ |
| 21 | While calling for the consolidation and development of the state sector , the plan called for the " appropriate development " of the individual and private sectors , both of which played a " valuable supplementary role " . |
| 22 | However , while reading for the bar , his health broke down and , following a period of recuperation in Italy and without formal art training , he took up painting and an art patron , Sir Coutts Lindsay , provided him with a studio in London . |
| 23 | They were both then hauled through the treacherous water to the boat , but while paddling for the shore , the current seized the boat and it capsized throwing everyone into the water . |
| 24 | He does not want his team disrupted and is even more concerned that one might be injured while playing for the county . |
| 25 | Edwards clocked his best 100 metres time , a wind assisted 10.63 seconds , while preparing for the Commonwealth Games in New Zealand two years ago . |
| 26 | The conference also approved the Britain in the Modern World policy review , which proposes : Cancelling one of the four planned Trident submarines ; Putting other Trident missiles and Polaris into international arms reduction talks ; Opposing the modernisation of short-range nuclear weapons in Europe ; A commitment to continued Nato membership , while arguing for the abandonment of its flexible response strategy ; Aiming to eliminate all nuclear weapons by 2000 ; Adoption of a policy of no first use of British nuclear weapons ; Decisions The conference yesterday : Rejected a motion which would have committed the party to phasing out nuclear power stations within 15 years . |
| 27 | While auditioning for the show , Lloyd Webber met a young dancer from the chorus line , Sarah Brightman . |
| 28 | Tony Long , who sat on a government working party discussing the directive in the mid-1980s while working for the Council for the Protection of Rural England , now runs WWF 's Brussels office . |