Example sentences of "while [pron] is [adj] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While it is self-evident that childhood experiences must have a profound formative effect upon the beliefs we have about ourselves and upon our expectations of others , most of us fail to take them into account when we run into trouble later on in life . |
| 2 | Both are limiting laws , valid only for small strains or rates of strain , and while it is essential that conditions involving large stresses , leading to eventual mechanical failure , be studied , it is also important to examine the response to small mechanical stresses . |
| 3 | While it is certain that VAT will be added to domestic fuel from April next year , what is n't known is at what rate . |
| 4 | While it is apparent that members of an organisation will always be affected by a treaty concluded by the organisation in the sense that they can not act contrary to it , the controversial question was whether they could be formally bound by it . |
| 5 | While it is true that village women in India have little power or status in society as a whole , Janet misunderstands what lies behind the caring and ‘ fussing ’ . |
| 6 | While it is true that self-evaluation was officially a requirement of participating schools , and that at least one school undertook some evaluation which it broadened to a development of its original project proposal into a statement of library policy for the school as a whole , specific requirements for precise and quantitative monitoring were absent . |
| 7 | While it is true that cause could be inserted in ( 134 ) , it is significant that the writer has used make with a subject ( " enzymes " ) which actively produces chemical reactions and is even described in the same sentence as an agent that speeds them up . |
| 8 | While it is true that men 's consumption of bread and beer can vary , the quantity of these basic foodstuffs remains a tolerable , rough criterion of the size of a population . |
| 9 | While it is clear that politicians and zaibatsu groups were the object of a more aggressively nationalist movement in rural areas , there was also some strong anti-landlord sentiment . |
| 10 | While it is clear that food treated with irradiation is not radioactive , ie. the rays can not be passed from the food to the consumer , there is still uncertainty about whether such treatment leaves other dangerous chemicals in the food . |
| 11 | While it is conceivable that bribes can be used to secure the sale of a better and cheaper product , the more general effect is to shift the balance of business away from the most efficient producer and in favour of the most corrupt producer . |
| 12 | While it is unlikely that Dom Pérignon himself employed such methods , it is more than probable that others did . |