Example sentences of "that while it [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another argument I must meet is that while it is one thing to tolerate behaviour and remove criminal sanctions , in this case concerning homosexual activities , it is quite another thing to facilitate and give recognition to unions built on such activities . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I am still very critical of my own shape but I console myself with the fact that while it is far from perfect , it is better than it used to be . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | About all one can say is that while it is only too easy to make a weak material ( or indeed a material of no strength at all ) from strong chemical bonds , it is not possible to make very strong materials from weak bonds . |
| 7 | A tie-up with a foreign major is now on the cards — Siemens has long-standing ties with Fujitsu Ltd , and the company said that while it is not presently in co-operation talks with other companies , such a move is likely if industry problems persist . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | And we all nodded at him : the man of finance , the man of accounts , the man of law , we all nodded at him over the polished table that like a still sheet of brown water reflected our faces , lined , wrinkled ; our faces marked by toil , by deceptions , by success , by love ; our weary eyes looking still , looking always , looking anxiously for something out of life , that while it is expected is already gone — has passed unseen , in a sigh , in a flash — together with the youth , with the strength , with the romance of illusions . |
| 10 | This is shown by the fact that while it is possible to produce a semantic clash within the noun phrase which can only be resolved by replacing the adjective or the noun ( ? extremely fast wines , extremely fast runners , extremely potent wines ) , it is impossible to produce a clash which can only be resolved by replacing either the intensifier or the noun . |
| 11 | And it is true that while it is easy to glean rapidly from a representation such as table 5.1 or 5.2 information on relationships between speaker and linguistic variables , the quantitative analysis and interpretation of such data is in fact a complicated matter . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 14 | My basic feeling is that while it is reasonable to ask that that a council , as a council , as a political grouping , may make the decisions about things , it is an absolute nonsense that many , many councils — some of them are worse than others — will not let their professionals speak out on their you know from using their own expertise , their own knowledge , their own experience , and quite often that that debate , the whole debate is gagged by the fact that you 're employees of the council . |
| 15 | 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 ? |
| 16 | In the meantime eat that while it 's hot . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He said that while it was difficult to give exact prices , an average funeral cost £932 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | DG said that while it was n't satisfied with its overall results , it was encouraged by the continued success of its AViiON family of Unix computers , which showed significant growth over the year-ago quarter , and it remains cautious for the short-term because of the weak worldwide economy and because it sees no evidence that industry-wide pricing pressures will abate in the near future . |
| 21 | It also said that while it was committed to the IBMulator business , it plans to expand its open systems products line because demand is increasing in that field . |
| 22 | Commenting on its reduced second quarter loss ( figures , page seven ) , Data General Corp said that while it was n't satisfied with its overall results , it was encouraged by the continued success of its AViiON family of Unix computers , which showed significant growth over the year-ago quarter , and it remains cautious for the short-term because of the weak worldwide economy and because it sees no evidence that industry-wide pricing pressures will abate in the near future ; the Westboro company is able to shrug off the small but steady and grinding losses because it still had $196.2m in cash and marketable securities at the end of the quarter . |
| 23 | Amdahl Corp is not known as an IBMulator for nothing : it too is cutting its dividend — to five cents a share this year from a dime last year , in an effort to conserve its capital base : the company , which reported a first quarter $240m loss after a $243m restructuring charge — figures , page seven — said its revenues were lower than expected because of soft economic conditions and competitive pressure on prices ; it also said that while it was committed to the IBMulator business , it plans to expand its open systems products line because demand is increasing in that field ; it is also enhancing our Huron applications development and production system , which creates applications that run without change in both proprietary and open environments and on both large and desktop systems , the company added , saying that its objective is to turn Huron into an industry standard and to develop a growing business in open systems for large-scale computing . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 ’ . |
| 27 | He said that while it was in the wrong place it would have hindered Liam 's breathing . |