Example sentences of "[verb] that while it " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the meantime eat that while it 's hot . |
| 2 | However the Southampton Hospital insists that while it discourages smoking and wo n't allow it in the building , they have no ban on heart operations . |
| 3 | We may observe in passing that while it seems obvious enough in the abstract that we should distinguish between what is good in itself and what is good as a means , more is at stake here than conceptual clarity . |
| 4 | The letter added that while it was a matter for the City Council to determine whether to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the event , ‘ there are no funds at the disposal of this Department to meet the costs involved ’ . |
| 5 | This says that while it may be all very well to make philosophical statements about evil , evil nevertheless is real , and not merely an absence ; and what 's more it can be resisted , and what 's more still not resisting it ( in the belief that one day Omnipotence will cure all ills ) is a dereliction of duty . |
| 6 | Meanwhile Amdahl says that while it believes that there is still strong demand for its mainframes , demand is proving erratic . |
| 7 | The company says that while it expected somewhat lower revenue in the first quarter because of seasonal factors and a product transition to R4000-based systems , the revenue decline was principally down to deferrals in customer orders and licensing activity as a result of the announcement of the proposed merger deal . |
| 8 | Intergraph Corp , Huntsville , Alabama warns that while it has not yet closed its books for the first quarter , preliminary estimates indicate that turnover will be lower than expected at between $280m and $285m , and that all geographic segments were below expectations for the quarter , and price reductions on older products combined with lower sales volume resulted in reduced gross margins ; the company expects a loss from operations excluding restructuring charges of $8m to $10m or $0.11 to $0.13 per share and restructuring charges and non-operating items during the quarter will increase the losses by an additional three cents a share . |
| 9 | The point was made that while it was valuable to have a specific workshop to deal with the issue of women , all the other workshops and all the topics discussed should have a clear women 's perspective . |
| 10 | It was noticeable that there was a willingness on the part of quite a number of voters to express as many preferences as there were candidates and the comment was sometimes made that while it was not too difficult to decide which candidates should be given first and early preferences and which candidates should be given last and later preferences it was less easy to decide the order of preference in which the middle range of candidates should be placed . |
| 11 | Or let him acknowledge that while it is rational doubt for him as a liberal humanist to criticize the Buddhist , the Marxist or the Christian , it might equally be a rational doubt for the Marxist to criticize him as a humanist . |
| 12 | ‘ The evidence shows that while it is swinging slowly , it 's still a long way from the centre and it 's certainly not swinging the other way . ’ |
| 13 | Company brochures on Courtaulds pie , the leading private corporation for job losses with 23,200 at Table 5.7 ( above ) , showed that while it had 300 textile and other plants spread across the UK in 1976 , by 1981 this stock fell by 20 per cent in ‘ assisted areas ’ but only 5 per cent in non-assisted areas . |
| 14 | It is worth noting that while it would be a gross aesthetic blunder to introduce music of more classical times ( from the Baroque onwards ) into contemporary music , one can introduce earlier music quite successfully . |
| 15 | i A Norwegian study of the efficacy of transdermal nicotine patches as a method of giving up smoking has shown that while it is a safe and effective cessation method , the absolute rate of abstinence after one year was only 17% , which is lower than the success rate using nicotine gum in conjunction with behavioural therapy . |
| 16 | In introducing the subject Grant commented that while it was important in crime investigation , it has taken on a new significance in the past year because of the large number of valuable documents that had been damaged as a result of fires caused by enemy action . |
| 17 | C. , 1976 ) the court indicated that while it would determine the existence and the scope of the prerogative power , it would not review the propriety or adequacy of the grounds on which it had been exercised . |
| 18 | The inspectorate states that while it sympathises with that view , the compulsory wearing of uniform has become a service-wide decision . |
| 19 | Hilton recognises that while it is apparently unreasonable for man governed by reason utterly to devalue himself and attribute any good things which he does to Christ it is nevertheless the route to true identity , away from the temporal accidents which attract the self , to its essential which is discovered in Christ himself . |
| 20 | However , it should be recognised that while it is possible to analyse costs retrospectively to the individual patient , it is not possible to plan prospectively for the individual patient . |
| 21 | In response to further letters in A Quarterly , the Society justified its stance by saying that while it accepted some correspondents ' views that certain butlers of excellent quality were to be found in the houses of businessmen , ‘ the assumption had to be that the houses of true ladies and gentlemen would not refrain long from acquiring the services of any such persons ’ . |
| 22 | I did their first demos with them , and took the opportunity of telling them a few facts of life , saying that while it was nice to play guitar , if at the end of the line they were all broke then they were going to be very unhappy musicians who had missed their chance to be big , and so they had better take care of certain realities and do it right away . |
| 23 | This period of Eliot 's development is often seen as one of increasing narrowing , so that it is useful to emphasize that while it certainly represents a concentration of energy on Christian themes , it also represents a continuing openness to other elements and a drawing on resources whose foundations were laid in Eliot 's studies at Harvard . |
| 24 | The French Communist Party ( PCF ) , whose votes would have been needed for its success , boycotted the session ; it had declared that while it did not support the government , it would not vote for the motion , which it described as a " manoeuvre " . |
| 25 | The FRY delegation stressed that while it too condemned " ethnic cleansing " , paramilitary groups " of all three sides to the conflict , namely also Croats and Moslems in Bosnia-Hercegovina , are involved in such practices " . |
| 26 | In an important speech on disarmament in February 1987 Gorbachev asserted that while it remained best ‘ to revive the old idea of dismantling foreign bases and bringing the troops home ’ in the short term it would be desirable to have inspection access to American military bases on foreign territories for verification purposes ‘ to be sure that there is no activity going on there which is forbidden under an eventual agreement ’ . |
| 27 | To which the cynically-minded might reply that while it 's certainly fair for Fender to give inferior , rip-off copies of their guitars as hard a time as possible , did Leo design G&L instruments , or did n't he ? |
| 28 | But Washington said that while it had prior knowledge of the plot hatched by three disaffected officers , it did not actively back it . |
| 29 | He said that while it was difficult to give exact prices , an average funeral cost £932 . |
| 30 | Compton Mackenzie truly said that while it is easy for a woman to behave like a man , it is impossible for her to behave like a gentleman . |