Example sentences of "that is [adj] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A board that is easy to sail in strong winds which has a surf-board type of tail , footstraps , a retracting daggerboard and a mast track . |
| 2 | Yet the report is widely agreed to have very little that is tangible to say about how the UK 's environmental stategy is to be taken forward . |
| 3 | Naturally , the form of guarantee that is appropriate varies from case to case . |
| 4 | One point that is appropriate to bear in mind at this juncture , and that is often overlooked , is the difficulty , because of their nature , of mixing H.T.s and Floribundas with other plants . |
| 5 | That is a question I am afraid that is impossible to answer at this stage , that wo n't be known until he 's had a thorough investigation by the surgeons at the hospital who er probably wo n't be able to answer that for a day or two yet . |
| 6 | Direct selling provides a degree of control that is impossible to achieve through intermediaries over such matters as price , credit , after-sales service , etc . |
| 7 | But anorexia nervosa is a heterogeneous illness , and the psychotherapy that is necessary depends on several factors . |
| 8 | In that respect it seems to me that it is not something that is necessary to come through the full procedure of the council in order for you to do and I I thought that would would deal er establish . |
| 9 | But apart from these very limited attempts to control the exercise of sentencing discretion by law , the only other guidance that is available comes from the past practice of the courts themselves in determining the ‘ going rate ’ for particular offences , and , in particular , the checking and structuring functions of the Court of Appeal . |
| 10 | The aim of this factsheet is to provide advice and information to elderly people on the help that is available to assist with heating costs and other fuel problems . |
| 11 | Marxists and feminists are inclined to see this familiar fact as a form of exploitation , and the current fashion is to be particularly scornful of the honour that is supposed to accrue to the unpaid housewife . |
| 12 | Mr Bush livened the act last week when he said he was giving Congress until March 27th to decide which current defence programmes should be trimmed to raise $870m for Panama and Nicaragua ( money that is supposed to come from the 1990 Pentagon budget ) . |
| 13 | I think that the hon. Member , who belongs to a party that is supposed to believe in devolution , might occasionally support a practical piece of devolution . |
| 14 | Such a possibility should be considered in all patients with unstable asthma that is difficult to control with conventional treatment . |
| 15 | The 1989 glitch , like the 1975 one , caused a permanent increase in the slowdown rate , of a magnitude that is difficult to reconcile with current neutron star models . |
| 16 | The purest form of this is in ALT constructs with SKIP guards : for example ALT ( SKIP P , SKIP Q ) is a process that is free to behave like P or like Q , the choice depending neither on the environment nor on the program 's variables . |
| 17 | Crescent-shaped , it has an austerity that is unusual compared to other palaces . |
| 18 | It is a style that is unlikely to appeal to many people , and is not even encouraged by NACAB or GLCABS . |
| 19 | ‘ As far as I can see there is only one house that is easier to get at that way than by going through the town , and that is the house on stilts . ’ |
| 20 | We need a government which is not afraid of playing its part , a government that is not clinging to some of the apparent certainties of the Cold War but one that is willing to step off the sidelines and help ensure that through co-operation between East and West we can move from the two old Europes to the one new Europe with stability . |
| 21 | Transport of bone before or after burial is probably responsible for much of this breakage , but this is a factor that is hard to evaluate for small mammal assemblages because of the difficulties in keeping track of the small bones . |
| 22 | Halliday 's approach is one that is hard to reconcile with this everyday insight about " style " . |
| 23 | The big advantage of old , slightly faded curtains is that they are a good starting point round which to build a comfortable , well-used look ; one that is hard to achieve with brand-new designer materials . |
| 24 | Treat timber with a wood preservative — one that is safe to use near plants |
| 25 | Access areas such as halls , landings , conservatories and stairs need a floorcovering that is able to cope with heavy traffic and maybe dirty shoes . |
| 26 | Chapter 7 , which is written by Sara Ladbury and Clive Mira-Smith , is a piece of work by the Cities Research Unit , a private consultant , and accordingly reflects the style and the medium in which it is rooted , whilst similarly Jon Dawson and Michael Parkinson 's chapter is written from a perspective that is able to take on board their own personal involvement with the Merseyside Development Corporation . |
| 27 | Unfortunately there is no semantic theory currently available that is able to work in such a way for a broad coverage of English . |
| 28 | We want an independent inspectorate that is able to comment on all those matters . |
| 29 | It 's it 's not the boundary that is important to look at , it 's whether the land is open land , is n't it ? |
| 30 | Two eyes serve a movement that now and again now and now and now sets neat prints into the snow between trees and warily allaying shadows shadow lies by a stump in a hollow of a body that is bold to come across clearings , an eye , a widening , deepening greenness brilliantly concentratedly coming about its own business till with a sudden sharp hot stink of fox , it enters the dark hole of the head . |