Example sentences of "while [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While my preferred method is to use long-nets to surround the warrens and catch the bulk of the rabbits that way , I recognise that there are others who prefer to shoot instead of net . |
| 2 | While my right hand spooned up the sweet pulp and hefted my glass of Alsace riesling , my left explored the contours of my neighbour 's inner calf and the hollow behind her knee . |
| 3 | Dizzily entranced by the yellow novelty , I floated free as wood smoke and fluttered around the noisy house , while my anaesthetised feet padded cement steps up to the front door . |
| 4 | Your chances gone with half the loaf , while my new cabin boy is revived and the heartier for it . ’ |
| 5 | Clearly the RAF would be happy to show me their trophy-winners — while my cunning instincts told me that this would be the best place to do food-tasting ! |
| 6 | ( The mali had a unique way of turning simple English words into Hindi or Urdu equivalents : the clay tubs in which he planted his flowers became fellah-i-puts , seedlings were Sid-ud-Dins , while my favourite flower — the hollyhock — became a holi-ul-haq . |
| 7 | my Lord if I , while my learned friend is , is |
| 8 | While my hard-nosed companions dream of war |
| 9 | I did all I could for that plant , but while my White Poplar in the garden went from strength to strength , sprouting new branches and hundreds of suckers that came up like a forest over all the lawn , the fern bought on that memorable day when the second deluge had fallen just faded away before my eyes . |
| 10 | While my hon. Friend is considering replacement of the type 42 destroyers , will he bear in mind the urgent decision that he and his colleagues have to take very soon about the future of HMS |
| 11 | Is the environmental assessment to which my hon. Friend referred the same one as that referred to by the hon. Member for Keighley ( Mr. Waller ) who I understood to mean the King 's Cross project , while my hon. Friend was referring to the high-speed link ? |
| 12 | While my hon. Friend is paying tribute to several people who have highlighted those issues , will he also pay tribute to a specialist in Wales , with the Celtic name of Dr. Ian Campbell , who has highlighted those issues strongly ? |
| 13 | While my hon. Friend the Member for Oldham , West ( Mr. Meacher ) was speaking , I said that I challenged any Conservative Member of Parliament to spend just one week — I do not ask for longer — living on the money that so many of our constituents who are pensioners have to rely on — the state pension and income support . |
| 14 | But while their cricketing cousins were making history at the Calcutta Eden Garden pitch , rugby was still embroiled in the hard world of politics . |
| 15 | Although Cockermouth was leased as early as the thirteenth century , the family 's five Yorkshire manors were still in demesne in 1352 , three of these being leased by 1405 and all by 1416 , while their four Sussex manors were all leased between 1405 and 1416 . |
| 16 | While their four children were growing up , she put off fulfilling her ambition to run an antique shop of her own . |
| 17 | The bookshops continue to be well-stocked with thrillers , Kung Fu manuals and books about sexual relations , while their political shelves remain empty . |
| 18 | Why is it that black kids develop their sporting progress to the point that , by the time they leave school , their educational motivation is rather low , while their sporting motivation is soaring ? |
| 19 | Being harder and more durable , they also have withstood the elements over the many centuries that have passed since their arrival , while their softer plinths have been eroded by wind and rain and frost , leaving unaffected only those parts actually under the ‘ umbrella ’ protection of the boulders above . |
| 20 | A shaky defence will be strengthened by the return of David Burrows and captain Mark Wright , while their attacking options will increase considerably when Ian Rush and John Barnes are recalled . |
| 21 | While their richer brothers rake in subsidies , the poorer farmers continue to go out of business . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Those benighted days when men slogged their guts out oop at t'mill , or died of dysentery out in India , while their poor wives led lives of cruel hardship , bringing up the children with the help of a couple of nursemaids and a skivvy or four . ’ |
| 23 | Coordinators ' involvement in special needs declined while their full-time class teaching commitments increased , as did their participation in school management , especially curriculum development . |
| 24 | The democratic merits of small units of government have often been exaggerated and romanticised , while their democratic deficiencies have been overlooked ; 2 . |
| 25 | They give proper emphasis to its quiet poetry as well as its obvious rhetorical grandeur , while their classic mid-price disc is finely recorded and also includes a sensitive account of the Debussy Sonata as well as other music by Debussy and Ravel . |
| 26 | Although his two sons had hated each other , they would not have dared move openly against one another while their powerful father was still alive . |
| 27 | The males then returned inland , but the females had to wait in the burrows for a further two weeks while their fertilised eggs matured . |
| 28 | Men could and did eat sandwiches while their female companions ate nothing . |
| 29 | This , I felt , was long overdue — there had been a tendency to regard their activity as secondary to that of the operational investigators while their technical contribution was in fact of the highest importance . |
| 30 | The family live in a five bedroom house in Northampton … a temporary measure while their other home is being renovated . |