Example sentences of "[noun] that [is] " in BNC.

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1 The answer to this question lies in the complex problem of whether there is ever a role for retaining the gall bladder in the presence of stones , and whether it is the gall bladder that is the cause of the stones such that recurrence of stones is inevitable .
2 Well , I 'll be a very small cog in the wheel that 's trying to stamp it all out . ’
3 The fact that Christians find themselves caught up with a religion that is no longer related to work or community life , but instead to leisure , tells us something about the whole process of privatisation .
4 Tony finds several packets of banana custard that is hot and sweet ; it tastes bloody awful and neither Tony nor I like it , none the less he fights me for the last helping .
5 This uses a diagonal , rising action that is mid-way between a front kick and a roundhouse kick proper .
6 Similarly it can be argued that if home helps or social workers request training from the CAB in aspects of new legislation , this can cement a positive relationship between the CAB and the local authority who will then see a service in action that is worth funding .
7 strengthen a desirable action that is incompatible ( i.e. competes ) with the undesirable one .
8 Through careful disentanglement of the patient 's problems the action that is required to tackle his difficulties often becomes clearer .
9 The park authority itself has few powers over agricultural change — control of the largest and a few other farm buildings but little else — and must operate by giving counter advice and offering compensation to the Farmer who proposes an action that is seen to be damaging .
10 It is the same action that is observed when urine-spraying is taking place out of doors , but in this case there is no urine produced .
11 Although intervention by the state on a wide and varied front once saved capitalism , there is now a resistance to the state action that is necessary to ensure an economically successful and socially tranquil future .
12 However , this is not as tautological as it seems , since it implies a relationship between values and action that is problematic , as we shall see later .
13 In the case of trends in tobacco smoking ( and by implication of trends in the diseases to which it contributes ) the sum of Australian experience supports the view that centrally coordinated action that is adequately funded and deliberately built on broad based support can speed the fall in smoking prevalence .
14 Thus a member that protests from the outset of institutional action that is not sanctioned by the constitutive treaty should be able to claim that it is not bound by that action .
15 In general , [ style ] applies to human action that is partly invariant and partly variable ; …
16 A B Kay is entirely correct when advocating that the medical establishment is obligated to take action that is in the best interest of the general public .
17 This is especially the case when the action that is proposed requires some change from the usual flow of action .
18 The most telling point against Janette Richardson 's methodical interpretation may well be that no commercial benefits to the merchant can be imputed to his generosity and hospitality towards the monk ; the monk is invited to his house simply " " to pleye … in alle wise " " , " to have fun in every way " ( 59 – 61 ) , and is able to borrow a hundred francs from the merchant even at a time when cash in hand would be particularly useful to him in his business ( 255 – 92 ) : this , significantly , is the immediate context of the merchant 's reflection : Derek Pearsall nicely describes the poignant ambivalence of a single action that is motivated simultaneously by instinctive self-interest and by the " " inner springs " " of human virtue in the Shipman 's merchant 's desire both to be and to be recognized as generous .
19 Well , it 's not a positive action that is noted , as we 're actually saying that we 've we 've read it , basically .
20 I mean it is true that this is adults ' business , as it were , and that children are not in a position that they can take the sort of action that is going — certainly in the Gulf situation — to effect a change .
21 Well , I do n't think there 's any action that 's likely to be taken by the Regional Health Authority in time for next Monday .
22 That 's a sponge , that 's a sponge that is
23 One remedy that 's being proposed calls for drastic action now .
24 It now makes perfect sense to give a remedy that is capable of bringing about the same or very similar healing responses , that is symptoms , to the healing response which is occurring in the patient as shown by his individual symptoms .
25 For the conditions described in this book it is the selection of the remedy that is of far greater importance than the specific potency used .
26 This would create ‘ a unity that is growing before our eyes with every mile of railway line that is built , with every international trust and every workers ’ association that is formed ’ .
27 Intersection regions between boxes are flagged to allow the designer to indicate the type of association that is to be expected ; these will occur between mounted or shaped components , assembled mechanism , etc .
28 And it is the Yorkshire and Humberside Development Association that is the one that in this locality , the county , takes the lead in attracting inward investment .
29 In the chapters which follow there will be put forward a reasoned basis for religious thinking that is not excessively influenced by orthodox theology or by organised religions of any creed , denomination or national identification .
30 This analysis in terms of totalities is rooted in the Hegelian background of the Frankfurt theorists , and is integrally interwoven with the historical thinking that is fundamental to Hegel and foreign to positivism .
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