Example sentences of "that is [to-vb] they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tough non-metallic materials often contain interfaces or planes of weakness within the materials and many of them are heterogeneous , that is to say they consist of two or more constituents , such as fibre and resin . |
| 2 | That is to say they operated in such a way as either to confirm the proposed design ( by acting within the analysis phase ) or to generate the engineering information for production ( by acting within the scheming phase ) . |
| 3 | That is to say they constructed a picture of the world , a picture which one oneself no longer believes to be viable . |
| 4 | That is to say they think in terms of particular human beings ( and the term human beings tends to be understood to be a collectivity of the sum total of human beings ) . |
| 5 | That is to say they believe that God was in some sense differently related to particular events , or may be said in particular to have revealed God 's self through those events , in a way in which this is not true of all other events or periods in history . |
| 6 | You 've got to live in the moment and the way to do that is to think they do n't know and really enjoy it . |