Example sentences of "while [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While none of these pictures is of the first rank , some are of interest : Paris Bordone 's ‘ A Courtesan ’ ; Pietro Marescalchi 's ‘ Madonna and Child enthroned , with Saints James the Greater and Prosdocimus ’ of 1564 and Michele Giambono 's ‘ Madonna and Child enthroned ’ . |
| 2 | While none of these may suffer from ‘ absolute deprivation ’ ( a term that is anyway difficult to define unless it is meant to refer to circumstances in which people literally have no food , shelter and clothing ) , clearly many are unlikely to be enjoying an ‘ average ’ or ‘ normal ’ standard of living . |
| 3 | While we in other countries had become Hawaiianized , the Hawaiians themselves had melted away . |
| 4 | More than a third said they would take advantage of free insurance while one in four opted for free child places . |
| 5 | Those at home often need opiates ( morphine-like medicines ) for pain , while one in five will also need a special battery-operated syringe pump , especially if they are too weak to swallow . |
| 6 | The survey found that 39 per cent of British women are faithful to one partner over a lifetime , while one in 17 men and women under 59 have never had sex . |
| 7 | While one in ten agreed ICI was doing a fair share to reduce its impact and using its scientific skills to develop ‘ greener ’ products , the environment journalists still rated the company among the worst polluters — alongside British Coal , Fisons , British Nuclear Fuels and Powergen . |
| 8 | It was argued above that , while it in some way reflects the truth about the wordings which were used in classical law , it was not employed as the touchstone by which new wordings were tried . |