Example sentences of "[vb -s] that is [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps the Prime Minister thinks that is too modest . |
| 2 | There are occasions when something occurs that is so much outside the laws of nature and likelihood that all previous points of mental reference have to be abandoned . |
| 3 | No one even pretends that is enough , and we saw several children with the shrunken limbs and wrinkled faces of marasmus . |
| 4 | The Monster scowls and a green tongue emerges that is altogether too long and snakelike ; green slurry flows down its chin into the plastic bibdish . |
| 5 | The boom days of the 1980s will never return and though profits should recover well when the upturn finally comes that is largely in the price . |
| 6 | ‘ I was interested in how a mind works that is as analytical and calculating as his seems to be . ’ |
| 7 | He acknowledges that Donald is South Africa 's top bowler and major attraction but he believes that is still no excuse for bowling him too much . |