Example sentences of "while [v-ing] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Opponents of the curfew claim that forcing every bar to close at one time or , as proposed , requiring nightclubs to close their doors at 1.30 while allowing drinking until 3am or 4am , would lead to a flood of pub-goers hitting the streets at once , exacerbating the problem . |
| 2 | The Idris operating system can also be run on as many Transputers as necessary while allowing part of the system to remain as a native T9000 network . |
| 3 | Briefly , we would prescribe certain categories of development which were prohibitable without compensation , while allowing others to be prohibited subject to full or partial compensation . |
| 4 | These were first designed to keep out horses and motorcycles from the Bernwood Butterfly trail in Oxfordshire while allowing access to wheelchairs . |
| 5 | Formatwise , Hooker has stuck rigidly to the formula that turned ‘ The Healer ’ into a Grammy-grabber , with a miscellany of guests — in this instance Vaughan , John Hammond , Robert Cray , Charlie Musselwhite , Albert Collins etc — effectively fitting into selected niches while producer Roy Rogers creates an aura that , while allowing Hooker to be his usual minimalistic down-homey self , provides an urgency guaranteed to have the rock generation continuing to hang on the 72-year-old 's every ‘ uh uh ’ . |
| 6 | Skanform panels enable refurbishment of existing clean environments to a high standard of quality and hygiene without expensive and complicated installation procedures , while allowing investment in long term reliability and cost effectiveness . |
| 7 | She hit him and he held her head in the toilet bowl while eating tomatoes on toast . |
| 8 | I believe the new electronic KnitRadar ( KR11 ) is geared for this , so that it is possible to use the KR11 while knitting intarsia with the electronic intarsia carriage . |
| 9 | These two techniques are primarily intended for use in table searching in main storage , and are only incidentally usable for direct files ; it is worth noting that they are intended to eliminate the order-preserving properties of division , while using division as a convenient randomizing algorithm . |
| 10 | The organic debate continues with reasoned arguments from both sides but Jim Mason calls for a middleway , learning lessons from the past , while using technology of the present . |
| 11 | He was struck by lightning while catching roach on the Chesterfield Canal between Retford and Clarborough in Nottinghamshire . |
| 12 | Upper- and middle-class Victorian men relied on working-class female prostitutes to satisfy their sexual appetites , while demanding purity of their wives and inflicting upon them the impossibly sentimentalized and saintly ideal of the Virgin Mother . |
| 13 | The recent history of our struggles has shown how people can shrink the world to the size of their communities and act politically on that basis , expressing their dissent in the symbolism of disorderly protest while demanding control over their immediate conditions . |
| 14 | GRAHAM CHAPMAN and I wrote together almost full time between 1966 and 1973 , writes John Cleese , while producing sketches for The Frost Report , The 1948 Show and Monty Python , as well as several film scripts none of which made their way intact to the silver screen . |
| 15 | Material obtained in such circumstances inevitably contains the seeds of a special inside knowledge , avoiding problems described by Liebow ( 1967 : 232–56 ) , who was still separated by cognitive barriers while pursuing research in what was ostensibly his own society , and who found an insider 's language , education , and ‘ social membership ’ all helped to retain boundaries he was unable to penetrate . |
| 16 | The crude satire seems to be directed at the fashionable protest singers of the time , who , while singing songs against the materialistic values of American society , are worried about the receipts from their concerts . |
| 17 | The most systematic study of legacies sub modo , while drawing attention to the Scaevolan cases in which trusts are construed , points out that this amounted to no more than an isolated and sporadic tendency . |
| 18 | Examples from the survey included a teacher who would take underwear catalogues into the class and say things like , ‘ You 'd look nice in this one , Sarah ’ or ‘ This would suit a big girl like you , Emma ’ ; a gym master who would have a quick feel while helping girls over the vaulting horse , and several who were said to ‘ rub up ’ against girls and generally leer and lech . |
| 19 | It can be used to create a uniform look at a competitive price , while maintaining flexibility for all styles of office layout . |
| 20 | middle of the road or the dampened pendulum : adequate performance through balancing the necessity to get out work while maintaining morale of people at a satisfactory level . |
| 21 | Quite how Mr Clinton would manage to do all these things while maintaining support among churchgoing , monogamous , southern small-businessmen with sons at West Point , was never satisfactorily explained . |
| 22 | The girl 's wish to be adopted while maintaining contact with her brother had been refused by a previous High Appeal court ruling . |
| 23 | Most cells continue their vital activities , such as differentiation and proliferation , while maintaining homeostasis through intercellular communication via gap junctions . |
| 24 | Most cells carry on their vital activities , such as differentiation and proliferation , while maintaining homeostasis through intercellular communication via gap junctions . |
| 25 | Amdahl Tuxedo Transaction Manager 4.2 , based on the Unix System Laboratories Inc product , offers support for migrating some transaction processing applications to UTS from IBM Corp MVS systems while maintaining links to corporate databases in the MVS/CICS environment . |
| 26 | In theory , you should be able to stick the chart into a document , while maintaining links to the original spreadsheet , but I could n't make it work . |
| 27 | Belief in the freedom of the individual to choose his/her own destiny , while maintaining respect for others |
| 28 | Headcount control is essential , at all levels , if budgets are to be met , while maintaining standards in people management . |
| 29 | Complete external works while maintaining access into the station . |
| 30 | An army spokesman quoted by Agence France-Presse news agency said that soldiers had been attacked while pitching camp at Kaguitt . |