Example sentences of "that [is] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Many animals are diurnal — that is they are active in the daytime and inactive at night — whereas nocturnal creatures show the opposite orientation . |
| 32 | Your daffodils seem to be suffering from the problem known as ‘ blindness ’ , that is they produce foliage but even when they do produce buds these remain small and dry out before opening up . |
| 33 | Scorpions are viviparous , that is they bring forth living young . |
| 34 | Considerations of this kind would lead to a good deal of common authority , that is they would legitimate the authority of a government over all its subjects regarding a certain range of issues . |
| 35 | In 1985 some two-thirds ( 63 per cent ) of one-parent families ( with nearly a million children ) were living in poverty — that is they were either receiving supplementary benefit ( now income support ) or had incomes below the supplementary benefit ( sb ) level . |
| 36 | That is they can be broken down by bacteria to inert residues . |
| 37 | These differences are an indication of the unique way in which each individual is responding to the circumstances in which he finds himself and of the state of that person as a whole , that is they show how his healing powers are operating at that time . |
| 38 | If the contractions can not make up their mind about starting or not , that is they come and go and labour is not properly established , take one dose of Pulsatilla 200 every 2 hours until the contractions do make up their mind . |
| 39 | In 56 pairs , both twins had diabetes ( that is they were concordant ) and 50 pairs were discordant ( only one of each pair had the disease ) . |
| 40 | Ant colonies often entertain a variety of parasitic arthropods such as beetles and mites , and some that are merely commensal ; that is they merely co-habit with the ants , and thereby perhaps gain protection , or scavenge for scrap food , but do no obvious harm . |
| 41 | Because the spores are viable for a short time , Laboulbeniales are effectively restricted to arthropod hosts that have overlapping generations , especially in temperate regions ; that is they can not easily establish relations with those insects in which all the adults die at the end of the summer , with the species surviving in the form of larvae or pupae . |
| 42 | Words spoken in parliament and reported in Hansard , the official record , are privileged — that is they are immune from legal action . |
| 43 | The most important thing to know about them is that they work synergistically with minerals : that is they enhance each other , adding up to more than the individual sum of their parts . |
| 44 | Basically they do the same job , that is they break down the structure of the hair and reset them with a neutraliser , but are made without animal testing , contain naturally derived ingredients and are biodegradable . |
| 45 | That is they are fundamentally undemocratic and decisions are made by the central committee of the party . |
| 46 | Most parents can identify the first phase of interaction with their child , that is they can see what the child is doing that is irritating and they see how they react , but rarely do they then follow through the interaction to see what happens at the end . |
| 47 | Most children who suffer from day wetting have primary enuresis , that is they have never been dry by day . |
| 48 | These meanings are analytically generated , constructed from outside the discursive contexts under analysis , that is they are not meanings as used by participants . |
| 49 | It has erect leaves , usually unspotted , which form a hood at the tip and are keeled — that is they have a hard ridge running along the centre of the underside . |
| 50 | In one direction you will see the normal wave movement of the needles knitting , but in the other direction the needles hardly move at all , that is they SLIP ( and , even if you 'd had yarn threaded and stitches on the needles , they would n't have knitted on this row ) . |
| 51 | Almost all women were in practice put on to piece-work as soon as they had " learnt the case " ( that is they followed the pattern of the male apprentice Chalmers ) . |
| 52 | But the characteristic of this puss forming organism is that the legions it produces are wooled off , that is they 're relatively localized . |
| 53 | Women are certainly found in a very narrow range of jobs , that is they are segregated from men in the labour market . |
| 54 | they are less economistic than men , that is they do not only seek more rewards ; |
| 55 | That is they are places which , well before 800 AD , had characteristics which were already marked as different in function from the normal agricultural settlements of the period . |
| 56 | Some sociologists argue that they have become proletarianized , that is they have effectively become members of the working class . |
| 57 | The court has to consider the child 's welfare as the court 's paramount consideration , and also has to consider the various aspects referred to under section 1(3) , that is they have to consider the wishes of the children , their needs , the likely effects on the children of change , the characteristics of the children , the nature of the harm they have suffered and the capability of the parents or anybody else offering themselves as carers , which would include of course the grandparents in this case . |
| 58 | And the way they do that is they take a sample of your blood and mix it with er agents taking taken from the blood of other people . |
| 59 | These technologies could be said to be neo-Fordist — that is they make use of information technologies but within a framework determined in the Fordist era . |
| 60 | Assemblies in Western liberal democracies are either unicameral or bicameral , that is they consist of one chamber or two . |