Example sentences of "that while it [is] " 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 . |