Example sentences of "while at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Outside , the apse-end of the church is tall and decorative , while at the west end there is a good three-arched portal and a simply sculpted tympanum . |
| 2 | Thus , while at the peak of his long and difficult reign , and while engaged upon an ideal cause that represented all that he stood for in terms of imperial and religious aims , Frederick Barbarossa probably died from what we would now recognise as a massive heart failure . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , such was my faith while at the Centre that along with my vitamins and supplements , I religiously took my drops of Dr. Bach every day , at the same time muttering the necessary affirmations . |
| 4 | South West engineers were called in to try and to trace the leak in the mains pipe and after identifying it they carried out the repair work on Saturday and Sunday , but while at the scene early on Friday they smelled gas , and the |
| 5 | Thom Mayne 's ‘ Morphosis on Los Angeles ’ continues its showing at Saddock & Uzzan , while at the Beaubourg Daniel Spoerri has brought together ten panel paintings fresh from the Universal Exhibition in Seville . |
| 6 | She 'll have to go , he told himself , fearful for his sanity while at the mercy of Bessie 's constant chatter . |
| 7 | The structure of universities in Germany , France , Britain and the USA was very different , but everywhere they were by the end of the century centres of scientific research , while at the beginning of it they had mostly been very marginal to it . |
| 8 | While at the Guggenheim Dr Barnett curated three documentary exhibitions on Kandinsky in the mid-1980s and was subsequently invited by Jean K. Benjamin , the co-author of the Kandinsky paintings catalogue raisonné ( with the late Dr Hans Konrad Roethel ) to embark on the watercolour volumes . |
| 9 | The HIDB seems to have a fragmented hierarchy of ideologies : on top is the prevailing doctrine of economic development , then there is the Board 's own policy of development while at the bottom there a.e the local views . |
| 10 | In Section Two , leaders Bangor have a tough trip to Down while at the bottom , RUC have a chance to close the gap on South Antrim when they meet the Lisburn team at Newforge . |
| 11 | Such arrangements are not easy to achieve , not all field officers managed to deploy their technical expertise while at the company , and some firms were cautious about commercial confidentiality . |
| 12 | While at the University of Chicago ( where he met Ulu Grosbard ) , he made his living as a night janitor , hotel desk clerk and delivery truck driver . |
| 13 | I AM surprised to see that the England Colts selectors have included A. Jackson in the squad of 25 and also on training weekends , while at the present he is banned from playing for stamping . |
| 14 | In 1938 Young Communist League membership stood at 4,500 compared with a total Party membership of 16,000 , while at the Birmingham Congress of that year 226 of the 539 delegates were under the YCL age limit of 30 . |
| 15 | The similarly configured 486DX/33 machine — with more expansion slots , comes to £1,160 while at the top of the bottom is the floor-standing 66MHz 80486DX2 with six drive bays , six slots and a 170Mb disk for £1,810 . |
| 16 | As a result of this work , the paint shop at the Torslanda plant has cut solvent emissions by 85percent while at the Skovde engine plant new technology has allowed dust emissions to be cut in half . |
| 17 | The third is partly ruined , with the cattle end used as a barn , while at the upper , living end a substantial fireplace , stack and bread oven remain . |
| 18 | At one extreme , we have theories that take the form of bold , risky conjectures , while at the other , we have theories that are cautious conjectures , making claims that seem to involve no significant risks . |
| 19 | At one extreme you may wish to ignore all advice and to pioneer your own stretch of water , while at the other you could simply follow a successful fisherman , wait for him to leave his swim and then cast a bait exactly where he did . |
| 20 | At one extreme it can mean a particular , rigidly constrained , language dependent structure , while at the other it can simply mean that subroutines or procedures are used . |
| 21 | At one extreme , some plants produce many small , nutritionally poor fruits that attract a wide range of ‘ poor quality ’ dispersers , while at the other , some produce a smaller number of large , nutritionally superior fruits , dispersed by a limited number of species . |
| 22 | As regards external mediation efforts , the European Community ( EC ) moved to the imposition of sanctions on Yugoslavia , while at the UN there was increasingly urgent consideration of a mission by peacekeeping forces . |
| 23 | In October 1975 OSHA recommended a further lowering of exposure levels while at the end of 1976 the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health ( NIOSH ) recommended a further lowering of the standard to the lower limit of detection by optical microscopy — 100.000 asbestos fibre per cubic metre — though NIOSH admitted that even at that level of exposure there is probably still an increased risk of cancer . |
| 24 | Between 1916 and 1920 membership of the NALRWU grew from 4000 to 93000 , while at the end of the same period the Workers ' Union ( the precursor of the TGWU ) contained an estimated 120000 farm workers . |
| 25 | Today , Muslims are classed as Arabs , while at the end of the Middle Ages and at the beginning of the modern period , they were classed as Turks . |
| 26 | The dissolution of BCP cells in the armed forces had already been ordered by the former politburo on Jan. 24 and had been accomplished by Feb. 15 , while at the end of January a congress of the Union of Journalists had banned party cells from newspapers and publishing houses . |
| 27 | While at the end of 1985 there were fears that the price of crude would drop as far as $15 , by the end of July 1986 a leading article in The Times reported that Brent crude stood at ‘ a paltry nine dollars a barrel ’ . |
| 28 | In the first , it is ‘ gentle ’ and the poet describes the ‘ kind old sun ’ as wise , while at the end he says ‘ fatuous sunbeams ’ — fatuous being ‘ silly ’ or ‘ imbecile ’ . |
| 29 | As turbulent conditions continued , it was then announced that base rate would rise further to 15 per cent the following day ( equal to its peak in 1989-90 ) , while at the close of business in London the pound stood at DM2.75 . |
| 30 | In August 33-year-old newsagent John Carson was shot while at the counter of his shop approximately yards from the scene of Tuesday 's murder . |