Example sentences of "while it [modal v] be [adj] that " in BNC.
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1 | And while it may be admirable that ministers take initiatives to disturb the bland continuity of civil service administration , there is a further , separate question of whether the policies injected by ministers are desirable . |
2 | And he says while it may be understandable that Channel 4 is reluctant to see so much of their dirty linen washed in public he argues that it is in the public interest that this should happen . |
3 | The incidence of bully/victim problems in schools within mainstream children has now been well-established ; however while it may be likely that children with special educational needs will be over-represented in such categories , there has been very little quantitative evidence on this point , or on which types of special needs children are most likely to be involved , in which way . |
4 | While it may be true that we Christians are living in our separate and little private worlds , this is not to say that nothing significant is happening . |
5 | While it may be true that , in speaking , children frequently express in words underlying conceptual distinctions , a number of researchers have suggested that the ability to use language to communicate needs , interests and desires to other people presupposes another , rather different , set of developmental abilities . |
6 | Firstly , while it may be true that individual clients can and do terminate contracts frequently , they do this to move from one company to another : every year each company loses existing but gains new customers . |
7 | While it may be true that the highest socioeconomic group uses nothing but Standard English , it is certainly not true that the lowest group uses only Creole , and that the middle classes are those who tend |