Example sentences of "while [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 Newcastle employed him at Claremont , Surrey ( 1752 ) , and as chancellor of Cambridge University secured his employment to design the university library ( 1754–8 ) ; while for the second duke he worked at Clumber House , Nottinghamshire ( 1768–78 , demolished ) , and designed the bridge in Newark in the same county ( 1775 ) .
2 For the first group , more careful diagnostic and treatment procedures , especially extent of surgical resection , are essential in preventing recurrence , while for the second group , one has to identify means of blocking the function of or deleting the effects of persisting carcinogenetic factors , such as hepatitis B virus infection .
3 So , while for the first of these two failures Owen may be criticised , for the second he must be excused .
4 For the first three firms we can use the Gordon growth model ( 6.27 ) , while for the last firm we use the supernormal growth model ( 6.38 ) .
5 IBM Corp 3172 functionality will be provided on the company 's router systems as phase 3 of the plan during the first half of next year , while during the second half there will be an expansion of multiprotocol routing with the inclusion of APPN/NN routing .
6 Into the first category would go Sam Snead , Arnold Palmer and Severiano Ballesteros , while into the second would go Ben Hogan , Jack Nicklaus and to a slightly lesser extent Nick Faldo .
7 The average revenue per partner in a big firm is £960,000 , while in a second tier firm it is £390,000 .
8 In one set of trials the type of match required was varied from trial to trial while in a second set of trials the same match was required for a fixed number of stimulus presentations .
9 In one , for example , a casual labourer and his wife in their sixties lived with a woman of 79 , her son of 57 who was a street matchseller , and six younger tenants ; in another a woman of 68 was subletting to another woman of 65 , a crippled woman of sixty , and two others ; while in a third household a 71-year-old sandwich-man lived with an unrelated widow and widower of the same age and two younger tenants .
10 Others seemed genuinely to be pleased with the way things were going , while in a third group discussion centred on how much more usefully the time could be spent with the National Childbirth Trust .
11 While in the nineteenth century , Marx appeared simply as an ‘ anti-theologian ’ , many of the themes in his work have come to play a role in more recent theological discussion .
12 In her wake , mud or no , came another French author , even more broad-minded , in the person of François Rabelais , while in the nineteenth century the spa 's literary connections became more exalted still when the great Romantic writers , Alfred de Vigny , Chateaubriand and George Sand all visited it .
13 Violence continued to be reported mainly from communities outside Tskhinvali , the capital of South Ossetia , while in the first week of February Soviet television showed footage of the principal buildings in Tskhinvali ransacked apparently by Georgian militants during January 's violence .
14 The younger element , like Mark Perry , are being allowed to make their mistakes while in the first team and , once greater experience tells , United will have a balanced side of rich promise .
15 Only in the first innings of the third Test in Bombay did England score more than 300 , while in the first two they were forced to follow on .
16 In the 16th century , an east wing was added to replace the earlier parlour , while in the 17th century a kitchen wing was built to balance it to the west .
17 In looking at the first of these it must be recognized that no map , however detailed or carefully compiled , can perfectly represent the ‘ ground truth ’ , while in the second instance , the digitizing process merely serves to compound the errors present in the original map ( Poiker 1982 ; Blakemore 1984 ) .
18 In the first reaction above the neutron carries away 2.45 MeV of energy , while in the second the proton has 3 MeV .
19 In the first he regards it as antithetical to analytical reason , as truth to error , while in the second he sees it as complementary to it .
20 However , in the optimum method a computer is required to scan all elements available , i.e. unc in successive steps , while in the second variant only m , ( n — 1 ) , … , 1 need scanning .
21 In the former study the transition occurred within a homopolymeric AT sequence , while in the second a GpA junction ( of type XS ) was concerned .
22 Thus , one would advise sufferers to deal first with their addictive disease through a 12 Step programme of recovery through the Anonymous Fellowships and later , while in the second stage of recovery , come to deal with other behavioural issues through whatever method may be individually appropriate .
23 Here was I , struggling to free a walnut from its convoluted enclosure , exalting when at last I managed to obtain a whole half rather than a handful of shards , while in the next room was a packet replete with whole halves .
24 While in the fifteenth century it was rare to designate a man by the title ‘ shipowner ’ , this occupation became commoner in the sixteenth ( 100 ) .
25 While in the last century there was still some attempt to embrace all people in Ireland as the Irish nation , now the nation subsists in the Irish catholic population .
26 In December , while in the last stages of composition , he stayed at home because of the London fog , and at the beginning of the new year he took to his bed for a week with a slight chill .
27 In Example 13 , from Schubert 's Impromptu Op. 142 No. 3 , one of the crotchets is lengthened in bar 2 ( a common form of change ) , while in the last bar the rhythmic cell is diminished by halving the time-values .
28 From the 1690s , for instance , discontent with the policies of Louis XIV gathered around his grandson , the Duke of Burgundy , and hoped for a change of course with his accession to the throne ; while in the last two decades of the reign of Catherine II her son , the Grand Duke Paul , acted as the focus of potential opposition .
29 Carrickcruppin 's Keith Quigley gets his chance in the right corner of the defence , while in the last line of attack Shane McConville and Barry O'Hagan have been included , alongside the experienced Kieran McGurk .
30 He had accumulated over £200,000 , lay fourth on the Order of Merit and was 90 shots under-par for the 50 rounds he had played , while in the last two tournaments , in Germany and Switzerland , he was a massive 38-under par .
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