Example sentences of "that is [adv] [verb] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Loess is a clay that is easily cut and holds its shape ; it can be incredibly accommodating as a building material . |
| 2 | 5.20 Keyholders To ensure that at all times the Landlord has [ and the local Police force has ] written notice of the name home address and home telephone number of at least [ 2 ] key holder[s] of the Premises While this is not necessarily objectionable it is a provision that is easily overlooked and imposes an obligation on the tenant which may not be appropriate in the circumstances . |
| 3 | LTP is q phenomenon that is easily produced and manipulated by classical neurophysiological techniques , so its popularity as a potential memory model is scarcely surprising . |
| 4 | It is extremely important that you have an organisation structure that is clearly understood and then you should not keep altering it . |
| 5 | The main contribution of CLE-I is substantial coverage of English constructions in both syntax and semantics that is well motivated and hence extensible ; in contrast to SPAR , it was not built mainly with anaphor resolution in mind . |
| 6 | But , he adds : ‘ There is an enormous advantage in building change on to something that is already known and respected . |
| 7 | Boston 's solution is to look to the example of Cuba , where she recently found it ‘ exhilarating to see a third-world nation that is adequately fed and healthy ’ . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In such a situation it is possible for the parent 's self control to snap and in a moment of aberration he may strike the child in a manner that is instantly regretted and most unlikely ever to be repeated . ’ |
| 10 | But by this time it 's become easy to forgive a film that is pleasingly constructed and charmingly executed . |
| 11 | Clearly we are dealing here with a feline phenomenon that is not isolated and accidental , but more a regular , typical feature of cat behaviour . |
| 12 | But about many of its manifestations there can be something ominous — something that is acutely understood and eloquently exposed in The Counterlife . |
| 13 | As it does with anything that is widely liked and appreciated , this modern money-mad world has made the rose big business , and the plant obeys all the ups and downs of fashion , high pressure competition and selling — even racketeering — as do pop records , clothes and motor cars . |
| 14 | We have the freedom to travel nearly anywhere in the world , English is a language that is widely spoken and understood , most of us have at least a basic secondary education and we have the training resources and ability to go , we do not take full advantage of it . |
| 15 | The Piaroa definition of ideal maturity for men is identical to that for women ; but the Shavante define ideal manhood as the achievement of a state that is both opposed and superior to the feminine . |
| 16 | Unfortunately , she was never able really to influence developments in the way that Britain should , by being right in the middle of events , and being seen as a joint , willing partner in Europe — not a country that is always ducking and diving and looking for ways of putting party and even narrow national interests before those of the wider European concept . |
| 17 | The deep-seated feeling that man 's nature is essentially structured to survive nomadically and that he needs to be on the move in some way if he is to be satisfied , is complemented by the mystics ' witness that true human fulfilment is the concomitant of what is experienced as a spiritual journey to a goal beyond time that is occasionally anticipated and known in time , the element within which our curiously mixed physical and spiritual natures cohere and mature . |
| 18 | Suppose , for example , a group is given a task that is tightly defined and where the group has previous experience of similar talks , it is likely to succeed by operating at a formal stage level . |
| 19 | Proponents of this view tend to see the idea of parental possession as one that is still protected and upheld by the law and by social agencies ; and they believe this state of affairs to be damaging to children , given that parents ' and children 's interests sometimes conflict . |
| 20 | It has to be a genuine partnership at Cabinet level and all levels of coalition government of the sort that is absolutely established and highly stable on the continent . ’ |
| 21 | Plants such as shepherd 's needles , pheasant 's eye , corn gromwell , corn cockle and mousetail flourish in farmland that is lightly tilled and cut once a year . |
| 22 | It has proved very hard for publishers to make the conceptual leap from information that is essentially fixed and pre-determined , such as print , to dynamic information which can be shaped in its applications by the end user as well as by the publisher . |
| 23 | An answer that is excessively divided and subdivided gives an unpleasant impression that the candidate has simply learned a crambook or correspondence course by heart . |
| 24 | The kinematics approach recognizes that the mechanism is constrained in such a way that only a prescribed motion is possible ; a mechanism that is randomly assembled and disassembled with no known input conditions is hardly a mechanism and is impossible to analyse by any method . |
| 25 | Holland 1983 ; Rescorla 1985 ) , a term used to describe the finding that subjects can come to respond appropriately to a CS that is sometimes reinforced and sometimes not according to whether some other event ( the occasion setter ) accompanies the target CS . |