Whilst on a short trip back from Spain, Philby tried to recruit Flora Solomon, daughter of a Russian banker and gold dealer, a relative of the Rothschilds and wife of a London stockbroker, as a Soviet agent.

Whilst Edward mobilised his own faction and placed Leeds castle under siege, Isabella was given the Great Seal and assumed control of the royal Chancery from the Tower of London.

Whilst Middle Eastern cooking in particular Lebanese has grown in popularity from its traditional enclaves in London.

Whilst Hornsey was formerly the name of a much larger parish and later a municipal borough of Middlesex, today, the name usually refers only to the London district.

" Whilst director of the London School of Economics, Beveridge attempted to create a Department of Social Biology.

Whilst he was in London Lloyd George asked him to brief the War Cabinet individually then collectively with his advice that Britain try for some military or diplomatic success to drive Turkey or Bulgaria out of the war.

Whilst this was under construction the West End of London and Crystal Palace Railway also planned a line from Crystal Palace to a new station at Battersea Wharf, at the southern end of the new Chelsea Bridge.

Whilst the town is a hub in commercial terms, with a shopping centre and several offices of large companies, a large proportion of the economically active population work in Greater London and other parts of Surrey.

Whilst the two-storey bunker was being designed and approved the structures of civil defence and London government were changing.

Whilst on leave in London in 1772, the charming and well-connected young officer was able to mix in literary circles and met Dr Johnson.

Whilst inner London lost 10 % of its population between 1961 and 1971, the figures for Tower Hamlets and Southwark were 18 % and 16 % respectively.

Whilst the Northern Ireland cabinet remained supportive of the USC, it was demonstrated to them at a London meeting on 19 August that disbanding the USC was top of the British Government's agenda.

Whilst waiting for acting roles he worked in a string of North London bars and restaurants.

Whilst working for Worldwide Television News in London, she was asked to work with the Met Office on documentaries about the weather.

Whilst undertaking an apprenticeship in mechanical engineering at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, he took evening classes at the University of London to earn a degree in electrical engineering.

Whilst in London, he met an old friend from his teenage days in the Scottish Youth Theatre, who was now a London casting agent, and was for a time her boyfriend and her assistant.

Whilst on this tour they recorded an album in London, Homesick James & Snooky Pryor, on Jim Simpson's label Big Bear Records.

* Whilst Waiting for the Train, Swiss Alps, Tate Britain, London.

Whilst the station has no direct interchange to a tube station, station is a fifteen minute walk away along Stroud Green Road and there is also a direct bus link courtesy of the London Buses route W7.

Whilst in London they had their first child John Farey, Jr.

Whilst performing in London at the age of 14, Driver was spotted by the agent Bert Aza, who was in partnership with his brother Archie Pitt, Gracie Fields's husband.

Whilst living with Davies in London, before the couple were married, Helen suffered a dramatic and almost fatal miscarriage.

Whilst in Paris, Shillibeer concluded that operating similar vehicles in London, but for the fare-paying public with multiple stops, would be a paying enterprise, so he returned to his native city.

Whilst this had the advantage of being usable by untrained users via ' hunt and peck ' typing and requiring one less key switch than a conventional 12 button keypad, it had the disadvantage that some symbols required three times as much force to depress them as others which made it hard to achieve any speed with the device.

Whilst his early work was rooted in traditional late-19th century romantic Italian opera, he successfully developed his work in the ' realistic ' verismo style, of which he became one of the leading exponents.

Whilst greed is a recurring theme in the novel, with many of the episodes stemming from one or more of the characters ' simple desire for food ( be it trolls eating dwarves or dwarves eating Wood-elf fare ) or a desire for beautiful objects, such as gold and jewels, it is only by the Arkenstone's influence upon Thorin that greed, and its attendant vices " coveting " and " malignancy ", come fully to the fore in the story and provide the moral crux of the tale.

Whilst the styles were similar, there are some notable differences between both Rococo and Baroque architecture, one of them being symmetry, since Rococo emphasised the asymmetry of forms, whilst Baroque was the opposite.

Whilst hierarchy is quickly established between individuals from a single group, this is not the case with organisms from different groups ; these are substantially more aggressive and very rarely climb one another or form aggregates.

Whilst Spangberg headed east to Okhotsk, Bering waited in Yakutsk, preparing two ships on the Lena ( one would be captained by Vasili Pronchishchev and the other first by Peter Lassenius and later by Dmitry Laptev ).

Whilst recovering from the fever, Rivers had formed a friendship with one of his father's speech therapy students, a young Army surgeon.

Whilst at one level conservative — harking back in foreign policy to the period of Phillip II, invoking traditional values at home — Philip's policies were also radical, rejecting the policy towards the rebellious Dutch that had held since 1609, entering into the Thirty Years ' War, and introducing a system of junta, or small committee, government across Spain in competition to the traditional system of royal councils.

Whilst historians such as Yitzhak Baer state, " the conversos and Jews were one people ", Kamen claims, " Yet if the conversos were hated by the Christians, the Jews liked them no better.

Whilst St Ann's Allotments in Nottingham, created in the 1830s, is regarded as one of the oldest allotments sites in England, as well as the largest site of Victorian gardens in the world, the accolade is actually reserved by Great Somerford Free Gardens in the Wiltshire village of Great Somerford.

Whilst not performing any kind of Mass per se, the Church of Scotland has a Watchnight ( similar to the one on Hogmanay ) service beginning just before midnight, wherein carols are sung.

Whilst there, one of Fleming's friends, Duff Dunbar, gave him a copy of Beatrix Potter's The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin to read and suggested that he took the time to write up the bedtime story that Fleming used to tell to tell his son Caspar each evening.

Whilst undertaking the preliminary drawings for the book, Trog tried to make the fudge recipe included in the book and found it was not particularly good: the editors at Jonathan Cape spent a day making up batches from different recipes to find a better one to use.

Whilst Lady Windermere leaves the room to find one, the story is revealed: Mrs Erlynne left her husband for a lover shortly after Lady Windermere's birth.

Whilst in lay up at Clarence dry docks, she was offered for sale, with one prospective buyer hoping to use her to operate cruises around the Isle of Man.

Whilst not non-stop, as one must change trains at East Croydon in order to touch in or out of the Oyster card system, the frequency of trains between East Croydon and Gatwick Airport is such that changeover times are minimal ( as little as one minute ).

Whilst once two distinct villages, the Bookhams have long been interconnected with residential roads that give most newcomers the impression that it is in fact one large village.

Whilst the public image of science education may be one of simply learning facts by rote, science education in recent history also generally concentrates on the teaching of science concepts and addressing misconceptions that learners may hold regarding science concepts or other content.

Whilst one of these ( einsteinium ) is now available in macroscopic quantities, most are extremely rare, having only been prepared in microgram amounts or less.

Whilst one side favoured shock action and had faith in the effectiveness of the sword and lance, the opposite contended that the cavalry ’ s future lay in serving as mounted infantry.

Whilst Director, in 1950, he established the outdoor centre at Whitehall, near Buxton, one of the first of its kind in the UK.

" Whilst the character spent less time with his old friends, Denisof was " more or less isolated from the cast, barring one or two scenes of mild confrontation when they would come to visit me and we'd chew each other out.

Whilst the Theatre has a resident show, it is still able to have one off shows ; this is enabled by the scenery of the resident show being designed to be easily removed.

Whilst investigating possible sources for the word " Hobbit " Tolkien realised he had made a mistake in using hob -, which is traditionally used to mean a smaller entity, not a larger one.