Example sentences of "while at " in BNC.
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| 1 | The conscientious lay person was simply involved in a two-way process of having his or her conscience informed , while at the same time being protected from making unintended errors of judgement . |
| 2 | According to the Liberal-Irish alliance , the Irish party was supposed to abstain from the 1901 Conservative bill , aimed at bringing denominational schools in England and Wales into the national education system while at the same time absenting them from local government control : that is , giving finance while maintaining the system of denominational clerical control . |
| 3 | In all kinds of ways many bad old practices disappeared , while at last the central administrative overhead came under control . |
| 4 | Then the trade deficit will make it hard to lower interest rates without undermining sterling , while at the same time reinforcing industry 's demands for cheaper money to help it compete . |
| 5 | The forum would now use the information to ‘ press for changes in legislation to enable more money and resources to be directed at the problem , while at the same time doing all we can to enable local people to find local solutions ’ . |
| 6 | While at the British Council , which he joined in 1946 , he was responsible for the recording of Shakespeare 's plays , under the direction of George Rylands . |
| 7 | Greece also stimulated his interest in Byron , first aroused while at school in Harrow . |
| 8 | Hong Kong has objected to the proposed ban because its stockpile of 670 tonnes — the tusks of up to 75,000 elephants — is worth $134m , while at least 3,000 jobs in the colony depend on the ivory carving industry . |
| 9 | THE TOM ROBINSON BAND The original line-up , road-testing some new material for future release , while at the same time customising some of the old agit-pop anthems . |
| 10 | It was the result of efforts to transfer product systematically from developed to less developed economies , while at the same time retaining the essentially American management style of strong planning , coordination and control from the centre . |
| 11 | Refusing to let even this distorted version of myth lie still , the next lines confirm the evolutionary idea , lowering its level while at the same time raising the domestic temperature to the tropical : |
| 12 | So too is Homi Bhabha 's scepticism about the way cultural theory uses the ‘ Other ’ to deconstruct ‘ the epistemological ‘ edge' ’ of the West' ; the problem being that ‘ the ‘ ‘ Other' ’ is cited , quoted , framed , illuminated , encased in the shot-reverse-shot strategy of a serial enlightenment' while at the same time losing ‘ its power to signify , to negate , to initiate its ‘ ‘ desire' ’ , to split its ‘ ‘ sign' ’ of identity , to establish its own institutional and oppositional discourse' . |
| 13 | But in the end Grey does venture the overall generalization that ‘ the experience in the Korean War demonstrated again the conflict between Dominion aspirations and increasing independence in policy formulation , and the British desire to maintain their status as a great power by drawing on the resources of the Dominions in ‘ friendly cooperation , ’ while at the same time arrogating to themselves the benefits which accrued from such association' ( p. 185 ) . |
| 14 | The government responded to the unacceptable strength of the mass picket by setting up a Court of Enquiry ( under Lord Justice Scarman ) while at the same time condemning the ‘ violence ’ of the pickets . |
| 15 | Indeed , the SL 's overall economy would have been better still had it not taken an unusually dim view of performance testing , its consumption plunging to just 14.4mpg while at Millbrook . |
| 16 | She says that changing her accent while at university was not easy for her parents to accept . |
| 17 | He seems to be obsessed with investing every penny , while at the same time turning a blind eye to the needs of his growing family . |
| 18 | But throughout her course , and while at the Royal College of Art doing her MA , she continued to develop her felting whenever she found time to go north . |
| 19 | Sheet by acid-sprayed sheet , 144 pieces of a huge jigsaw of tubes and angles beeped and fluttered from four laser facsimile machines in Sir Titus Salt 's former alpaca mill , while at his home in California Hockney — already master of computer , photocopy , and snipped-photograph art — was feeding the composite picture into his own fax . |
| 20 | For sheer daftness there 's no beating the British Tank Malling ( Cannons , Panton Street and Oxford Street , 18 ) which postulates a ludicrously megalomaniac semi-Fascist politico ( Peter Wyngarde ) , backed by criminals , the police , bishops and the judiciary in his attempt to bring moral regeneration to the country , while at the same time feeding the dirty sexual desires of the great and the good who back him . |
| 21 | In what he called ‘ a new architecture for a new era ’ , Mr Baker outlined closer co-operation between Western Europe and the US which would bind the West closer together while at the same time ‘ opening up the doors to the East ’ . |
| 22 | ‘ But I think it highly unlikely that Mr Clowes could have found any means of ensuring that investigation of the matters in question was averted , while at the same time satisfying the Department that his operations could properly be licensed . |
| 23 | Mr George Gardiner ( C. Reigate ) asked how was Mr Hurd going to explain to ethnic minorities already in this country the strict entry controls on their relatives ‘ while at the same time amending the law so as to create a preferential class of treatment for the Hong Kong Chinese ’ ? |
| 24 | Their visits break many of the established patterns of human/dolphin encounter : they accept gifts of dead fish ( one theory is that the dolphins receive the fish as a signal from humans that they have come to play and interact ) , and they maintain their own social grouping while at the same time allowing close human contact . |
| 25 | Some stories tell of botos coming up underneath canoes and taking off with the paddles , leaving a lone canoeist adrift on the river , while at other times the dolphin is said to have saved the lives of people from a capsized boat . |
| 26 | Mark Jones , the exhibition 's curator , has taken on the dual task of tracing the history of forgery from archaic Babylon to contemporary California , while at the same time tracing the history of how forgery is understood . |
| 27 | New ways of printing make unforeseen demands upon an old face , while at the same time giving the typographer scope to design problems away . |
| 28 | Except soldiers and airmen when on active service and mariners while at sea , no infant can dispose of his property by will . |
| 29 | Off the field he is mild-mannered and dismissive of his achievements — though his verbal attack on an English journalist at the end of the 1989–90 tour was fulminating stuff — while at the same time he is intensely proud of his humble background , is very much a man of his people . |
| 30 | Over the next months , rival consortia considered how to finance the new investment while at the Transport Department we could do little more than wait . |