Example sentences of "[that] [is] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They can not send us a box that is filled only with good apples , there has to be one that is bruised . ’ |
| 2 | But forewarned is forearmed , and we shall explore the power that is wielded especially by two important groups : the ‘ management ’ and the cynics . |
| 3 | The attitude that ‘ you must expect this at your age ’ is something that is heard all too often . |
| 4 | Nor is this just a problem that is eating away the character of historic towns and conservation areas . |
| 5 | Worcester 's population doubled from 4,000 to 8,000 between the mid-sixteenth and the mid-seventeenth century , a rise that is explained equally by natural increase and by immigration . |
| 6 | A provision that is written informally , or is described as a " procedure " or " code of practice " is , regardless of technical factors , likely to be interpreted as a lesser obligation rather than a " rule " or " regulation " . |
| 7 | Indeed , the loss of the parenting role is often something that is noticed only by the parents themselves . |
| 8 | This is even more confusing because the predator receives the impression that it is approaching a fish that is swimming straight towards it . |
| 9 | Also , if the wheel brake is of the type that is applied automatically with full airbrake , remember that you should avoid touching down with full airbrake . |
| 10 | However , in an interview in the Independent of March 9 the US ambassador to NATO said that " the alliance is not going to underwrite a security policy that is made somewhere else " . |
| 11 | A struggle that is made all the harder by the fact that , at least within the social sciences , the majority of academic practitioners have many other aims besides the scientific . |
| 12 | It is more generally understood as pain that is made worse rather than better by increasing doses of morphine . |
| 13 | Until quite recently , the Japanese had very few problems with back pain ; now it is a problem that is getting rapidly more common . |
| 14 | Finally , it is quite in order to conclude with a brief mention of any potentially useful information that is lacking either because it is not available to you or because it has never been collected ( but could be ) . |
| 15 | Out of the European Cup and the Coca-Cola Cup , he wants to strengthen the side quickly to rescue a season that is fading fast . |
| 16 | In a spirit of friendship across the Floor of the House , I have to say that if the hon. Gentleman really thinks that he advances the cause of housing by denigrating my hon. Friend the Minister for Housing and Planning , he displays an ignorance that is staggering even by Labour party standards . |
| 17 | That this is a big paddock , and in the bottom of the right hand corner , if you stand on the road looking at it , there is a triangle of land that is tucked away , that you can hardly see from the roadside , that in my opinion is sufficiently secluded and sufficiently near to other services to allow us to go out to consultation . |
| 18 | He thinks he has saved for his holiday — a fallacy that is exposed only when he tries to redeem those bits of paper against an empty spending account . |
| 19 | ( Ironically , now that the extent of this leakage is being understood , there are too many reservoirs , collecting too much water for a depressed industrial market that is switching away from water-guzzling businesses like iron and steel . ) |
| 20 | In the same bracket we must put the four-ply all-wool that is spun specially for domestic knitting machines and is advertised as ‘ machine washable ’ . |
| 21 | It is often caused by every change of the weather , especially from warm to cold ; from perspiration that is checked especially if hot ; from taking cold ; from cold wet weather . |
| 22 | Word processors have some database facilities , but these can be enhanced to contain client and related party ( courts , defendants , doctors ) information that is inputted once , and then retrieved in letters and other documents . |
| 23 | Government compounds all these problems when it sets down working parameters which fail to reflect the value the country gets from a system that is run efficiently , can shift people to destinations with exemplary speed and safety — as Europe consistently demonstrates . |
| 24 | This further expansion gave greater insight into the information requirements of the system ( eg for the activity Tender for services , information about tender procedures , potential contractors , standards required , etc could be relevant ) , and could be checked against the information actually available in practice , an approach that is examined further in Chapter 11 . |
| 25 | Answer : a notched wooden roller that is turned gently back and forth between the palms and fingers for a couple of minutes a day . |
| 26 | It is this attempt to redesign the genetic instructions of living organisms and utilise them on an industrial scale that is creating so much excitement and concern " . |
| 27 | The fluctuations are superimposed on a baseline that is drifting steadily downwards . |
| 28 | Silla took its name from the $1b Korean conglomerate that is providing much but reportedly not all of its funding . |
| 29 | The stance that is adopted therefore depends on circumstances . |
| 30 | Thereby I hope to provide moral justification for the non-egalitarian presuppositions of the methodology that is presented elsewhere in the book . |