Example sentences of "while [prep] [adj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the work of most linguists today , then , speech is not overtly seen as dependent on the rules of written language , while for many the ‘ universalism ’ of some approaches is being closely questioned . |
| 2 | While in 1971 the CGS controlled 42% of all unionized workers , by 1976 its share had dropped to 19% . |
| 3 | In 1969 the Labour Government was forced to abandon both the bill to reform the House of Lords and its projected Industrial Relations Bill , while in 1980 the Thatcher Government limited economic sanctions against Iran as a result of dissatisfaction in the Commons . |
| 4 | France , the papacy , Poland and perhaps other states , also honoured Venetian ambassadors in these ways , while in 1603 the doge in Venice knighted a group of seven ambassadors sent to him by the Grisons league in Switzerland , and in 1621 James I did the same for six deputies sent to London by the Dutch republic . |
| 5 | The first engines to be used in Scotland were erected in 1719 and 1720 , while in 1722 the first engine outside Britain was built in Hungary . |
| 6 | In nine the SLD scored the higher number of votes , while in two the Greens did better . |
| 7 | Special areas are designated for hazardous cargoes and , while in general the majority of traffic through the port does not require customs clearance , customs are available if required . |
| 8 | In 1910 the German one was a tiny organisation with a staff of only three ; while in 1913 the head of its Italian equivalent pressed strongly for it to be run by journalists rather than diplomats , since the latter usually stayed too short a time in Rome to establish the necessary good relations with newspapers and correspondents . |
| 9 | On the Somme in 1916 , the British used 15in weapons , while in 1918 the Germans produced a long-range gun with which to bombard Paris . |
| 10 | A generation or more later , Baron Cederhielm , the Holstein envoy in Paris and chamberlain to the king of Sweden , was sent to the Châtelet prison at the demand of his creditors , while in 1772 the Hessian minister in the French capital was officially warned that his furniture could be seized and he himself refused a passport to leave the country if he failed to pay what he owed . |
| 11 | In 1749 for the first time a single system of tactics was laid down for the entire army , while in 1765 the Hofkriegsrath assumed the power to appoint to all ranks above that of captain and from 1776 an organized State military transport corps began to be built up . |
| 12 | In the early 19th century shopkeepers began offering free gifts as an inducement to trade , while in 1844 the first co-operative dividend scheme was introduced . |
| 13 | On 26 April , only one month after the press conference , up to 25 million dollars was the pot being chased in public , while in private the Utah lobbyists were talking about 125 million . |
| 14 | In 1380 it had been the turn of Thomas , earl of Buckingham , uncle of Richard II , to lead what would prove to be the last English expedition to France in the fourteenth century , while in 1383 the religious divisions of Europe were underlined by the sending of a force led by Henry Despenser , bishop of Norwich , into Flanders under the guise of a crusade . |
| 15 | In Northern Ireland 's divided society therefore , community policing has both a specific and a general meaning , for in one sense it focuses narrowly on overcoming Catholic hostility to the police , while in another the ‘ community ’ which is addressed is defined more broadly to encompass all residents in the province , although often these two aspects intermingle . |
| 16 | According to Japan 's Ministry of Finance , direct investment in the Philippines by Japanese companies in 1987 was $72,000,000 , while in 1988 the figure rose to $134,000,000 , and in the first six months of 1989 the amount was already $101,000,000 . |
| 17 | So , while in 1814 the prime criticism of the idea was that it expected too much of human nature , too much of the people who were to live in the communities and of those who were to put them there , while then it was in short a social criticism , by 1832 the idea had become an economic nonsense . |
| 18 | An English observer much involved in these problems complained of Russian diplomats in 1673 that " it is their Custome , to think , whatsoever they get , too little , and whatever they give , too much " , while in 1698 an embassy sent by the Emperor Leopold I to Moscow argued that in future , to avoid such disagreements , the tsar and the Holy Roman Emperor should each be responsible for the maintenance of their own embassies in the way now generally accepted in Europe . |
| 19 | By 1981 financial futures accounted for one third of total CBoT turnover , while in 1990 the 120 million financial futures contracts traded were over three quarters of total CBoT business . |
| 20 | Gairdner , who examined a large number of normal children during their first five years of life , observed that at birth only 4% of children had fully retractile prepuces , while in half the prepuce was partially retractile . |
| 21 | Secondly , the communication between knowledge sources ( levels of units ) consists of fixed connections in TRACE II , while in Hearsay-II the system 's KSs can easily be reconfigured . |
| 22 | The same month saw the end of the Brechin line while in 1982 the Forfar service ceased in June . |
| 23 | In all kinds of ways many bad old practices disappeared , while at last the central administrative overhead came under control . |
| 24 | Thus , women of between 20 and 24 marrying in 1900 had an average family size of 4.0 children , while by 1950 the figure had dropped to 2.3 . |
| 25 | That of the Habsburgs in Vienna had five such departments in 1849 but seventeen by 1914 , while by 1918 the division of the French foreign ministry which now handled both political and commercial policy was split into eleven sub-divisions . |
| 26 | While by 1986 the government itself conceded some of these criticisms , it flatly rejected calls for the abolition of capital controls and put forward proposals which , if introduced , seem likely to maintain these for the foreseeable future ( Paying for Local Government , ch. 6 ) . |