Example sentences of "while [v-ing] [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Government are confident that this defence plan , while helping to relieve the strain on the economy , will produce compact all-regular forces of the highest quality , armed and organized on the most up-to-date lines . |
| 2 | I damaged my back while helping to load the trailer . |
| 3 | Youth club groups around the country have a chance to win a share of £5,000 worth of prizes while helping to enhance the environment in the Youth Action For The Earth competition . |
| 4 | ‘ We hope their arrival will strengthen the West League while helping to raise the standard of Welsh hockey . ’ |
| 5 | As she bade me goodbye and began to walk down the drive , she used her left leg while walking to set the distaff twirling . |
| 6 | For example , Manning ( 1977 ) showed how policemen and women in the ranks have an ability to bypass or undermine innovations introduced by police managers , some even doing so while appearing to endorse the policy change ( Chatterton 1979 ) . |
| 7 | Thus , the TNCs protected their monopoly in technique while appearing to transfer the technology to local people . |
| 8 | The English , alleged the Duc de Choiseul , ‘ while pretending to protect the balance on land which no one threatens … are entirely destroying the balance at sea which no one defends ’ . |
| 9 | While wanting to dismiss the stereotyping and silly superstition , the snag remains that within all the ballyhoo there are elements of truth . |
| 10 | In ‘ edit ’ mode , rotating the control varies the selected effect , while pushing turns the effect on or off . |
| 11 | While refusing to disclose the identity of these parties , he said that the PLO would share its evidence with Libya and was willing to co-operate with any international organization to prove the accuracy of its information . |
| 12 | While seeking to understand the opposition , the buyers should recognise that they are probably their own most formidable adversaries . |
| 13 | Educational policies were not immune from this tendency in their concern with the proper constituents of a national education system , which while serving to weld the nation into a coherent unit , would not disturb fundamental economic relations . |
| 14 | But , even while visualizing entering the cupboard , she had at the same time been fully aware that she was in a non-threatening situation ( lying in her own bed ) and so , once again , the subconscious mind had no need to send out those panic signals . |
| 15 | The programme of education reforms currently being introduced by the British Government requires all state maintained schools to introduce more or less simultaneously several major innovations , together with any changes initiated by LEAs and by the schools , while attempting to maintain the quality of their ongoing work . |
| 16 | While attempting to make the wheelchair or baby-buggy pusher 's life easier , planners often do not help by making ramps up and over steps too steep for any but the most fearless . |
| 17 | Post-graduate student Matthew Walsh , 22 , from Swindon , Wilts , fell while attempting to climb the north face of Mont Blanc on Tuesday — two years after his girlfriend Katy Choules was killed while climbing in America . |
| 18 | It is impossible to say to what extent Cézanne was aware of the fact that he was doing this , and in the process breaking the laws of scientific linear perspective , but it seems likely that it was part of a natural desire to emphasize the two-dimensional aspect of the canvas while continuing to explain the nature of objects and also insisting on their solidity by modelling them as fully as possible . |
| 19 | While continuing to promote the sale of small land holding , the development side took options during the year on two parcels of agricultural land near Rugby totalling 169 acres . |
| 20 | The charismatic maverick George Canning served with outward loyalty under Liverpool , while continuing to plot the succession . |
| 21 | Motorola Inc 's 68000 family may be losing market share to RISC in the workstation world at an alarming pace , but the applications-specific variants derived from the part , while much less visible represent big and growing business , making it fully worth Motorola 's while continuing to develop the family . |
| 22 | However , Cézanne very often goes further and tilts up the top of an object even more towards the picture plane , so that it appears sometimes as if seen almost from directly above , while continuing to show the rest of the object from a more normal , slightly lower point of view . |
| 23 | Indeed , in some situations , the child may have to exploit this interdependence to infer the reason on the basis of information about the result , while continuing to maintain the reason/result distinction . |
| 24 | Remember , each of the above exercises is immediately preceded by taking a deep breath , creating tension , and holding it for five seconds , then exhaling while letting go the tension and saying the word ‘ relax ’ to yourself . |
| 25 | This got over the critical problem of the ‘ double running ’ costs : the extra expenses of developing community services while having to support the infrastructure of the institution closing . |
| 26 | The test of " a right to stay " on the land is in both cases , " Did that person possess the land in fact , while intending to use the land and to keep out the whole world ? " |
| 27 | Narendra Makanji , the black sections ' chairman , added that the unofficial organisation would continue to recruit locally , while campaigning to tilt the balance in trade unions such as the GMB . |
| 28 | It is indeed deplorable that the Government sets targets for a reduction in smoking but continues to place the responsibility for achieving these on health , education and voluntary sector while avoiding taking the action we consider essential . |
| 29 | While hastening to disassociate the institution from the former director 's personal life , the board nonetheless found no reason to relinquish his professional skills . |
| 30 | A plain-clothes policeman attached to the drug squad had been accidentally electrocuted by a Fender Stratocaster , while trying to arrest the guitar 's owner . |