Example sentences of "[art] while the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we are referring to a mass of matter we can say that it is the same so long as it consists of the same particles , whereas if we are referring to a living body this need not be so : ‘ a colt grown up to a horse , sometimes fat , sometimes lean , is all the while the same horse : though … there may be a manifest change of the parts . ’ |
| 2 | Here 's me taking you for a prancing little parson when all the while the cloth is a covering for a frustrated sex maniac . ’ |
| 3 | And all the while the shadow of the Bomb grew longer as the most powerful nations on earth stockpiled enough megatonnes to blow up the world fifty times over . |
| 4 | And all the while the Scots cannon thundered destruction . |
| 5 | For the while the war went on . |
| 6 | All the while the cigarette was in between the doors , being carried along with them to Swiss Cottage . |
| 7 | The sense of effort in his conversation staggered her , and she watched him with pity , for he laboured as though he were to try to write a sonnet , and all the while the conversation was predestined , unnecessary , a mere coin of payment . |
| 8 | Alluding constantly to the primacy of sight yet revealing all the while the fugitive , chimeric nature of apprehension , the paintings remain firmly suspended in visual paradox . |
| 9 | But , stealthily , all the while the detective story at novel length was gaining in popularity . |
| 10 | It was not until the murderer 's long soliloquy that we were able to look around ; frozen as we were in profile , our eyes searched you out , first confidently , then hesitantly , then desperately as each patch of turf , each log , every exposed corner in every direction proved uninhabited , and all the while the murderous King addressed the horizon with his dreary interminable guilt … |
| 11 | All the while the cameraman is walking backwards the assistant cameraman walks behind him , holding him by the waist and steering him round children 's bicycles and feed-troughs . |
| 12 | All the while the coal merchant looked on , smiling . |
| 13 | Typical are the films written by T. E. B. Clarke , such as Passport to Pimlico ( 1949 ) , about a community whose discovery that it is an independent Burgundian principality enables the inhabitants to forget for a while the realities of post-war austerity , and The Lavender Hill Mob ( 1951 ) , about a bank clerk who robs a bank . |
| 14 | For a while the French government maintained a stony silence about the affair , claiming it was beneath its dignity to comment on allegations that the DGSE had been involved . |
| 15 | For a while the palazzo became an important meeting point of the political and artistic halves of the city , but history does not specify whether in the longer term Sgr Greppi was admitted to the ranks of noblemen . |
| 16 | After a while the whistle is repeated — by the same blackbird or by its mate — but always as if this were the first time it had occurred to him to whistle ; if this is a dialogue , each remark is uttered after long reflection . |
| 17 | The decision to compete with the fiction lending libraries altered things , but for a while the old remedy of pulping was resorted to , sometimes with amusing consequences as the flood of popular titles reached ever greater strength . |
| 18 | After a while the road ran out and there was nothing in the bleak landscape but loose boulders , rocks , yaks and wild asses . |
| 19 | But after a while the Yugoslav government took them over , and converted them into agreements to supply oil . |
| 20 | For a while the breed flourished and became a regular winner of dairy-class prizes , but the Second World War saw the start of a decline , though the breed society was revitalised in 1948 . |
| 21 | After a while the old ladies made a huffy pretence of being uninterested , whilst Herr Stern , cupping a hand round one ear , kept shouting , ‘ You what ? ’ at regular intervals . |
| 22 | Once in a while the Budget comes up with something that appeals to most people . |
| 23 | They were very sympathetic but after a while the tension began to build with ever-increasing rows . |
| 24 | After a while the captain , much calmer , took Selkirk and Corbett down to his cabin under the fo'castle , a small , dingy room smelling of tar and salt , and containing a simple cot bed , trunk , table and a number of stools . |
| 25 | Although the great whales may be relatively safe for a while the International Whaling Commission regulation does not cover any of the small cetaceans which are being slaughtered in huge numbers around the world . |
| 26 | After a while the salt and the moisture from the beans forms a powerful brine that perfectly preserves the beans . |
| 27 | After a while the British press stopped reporting the Indian gifts out of sheer embarrassment . |
| 28 | Apparently the Lorrimores were still safely with us as he came back presently without haste or alarm , and after a while the train made its usual unobtrusive departure westwards . |
| 29 | After a while the person learns to wake whenever his or her bladder becomes uncomfortably full . |
| 30 | Although for a while the new venture flourished , far outstripping its neighbour , Rye , it was never the success its royal founder had hoped . |