Example sentences of "that [is] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I giant-stepped for a mile or two until I came upon a picture that is for ever engraved on the goggles of my mind . |
| 2 | For too long we have regarded the pound as sacrosanct , but who wants to be paid in funny money that is for ever being debased by inflation and buffeted on the financial and foreign exchange markets ? |
| 3 | But with persistance that is at least recognisably characteristic of him , Borg seems still to be pressing on . |
| 4 | The point is made : there is a disadvantage to children immediately in the learning by teachers of so much that is at least newly described , if not new in reality . |
| 5 | For the do-it-yourself bar user it is best to settle for a narrow bar that is at least one millimetre thick . |
| 6 | Roll out the pastry on a floured surface and use to line a 23cm/9in flan tin that is at least 2.5cm/1in deep . |
| 7 | If a scheme is contracted out of SERPS , it must provide a guaranteed minimum pension that is at least as good as its SERPS equivalent . |
| 8 | Important to this analysis is the fact that the electoral prospects of democratic governments are substantially dependent on the overall performance of the economy , something that is at least partially under business control . |
| 9 | For a predator such as a hyena , a part of its environment that is at least as important as the weather is its prey , the changing populations of gnus , zebras and antelopes . |
| 10 | Let's reap the benefits of a service that is at least 30% better . |
| 11 | We do want a meal that is at least edible . ’ |
| 12 | This seems to imply that drivers ’ ratings of subjective risk are related to their subsequent recall of junctions in a way that is at least partially independent of the actual amount of traffic present and their assessment of the likelihood of accidents at the junction in other circumstances . |
| 13 | TWO-TIMING men with neatly trimmed pencil moustaches who like to drink as hard as they work are unwittingly modelling themselves upon a style that is at least 4,500 years old , archaeologists have discovered . |
| 14 | In order to deduce title to unregistered land , you need to locate a good root of title that is at least 15 years old . |
| 15 | With well written characters the words fit and flow so that the actor can ride with ease , and the thoughts , no matter how disjointed , have a natural quality that is at once ‘ actable ’ . |
| 16 | Noting a coincidence between the ‘ open structure ’ of adolescence , in which the subject , ‘ in the aftermath of the oedipal stabilisation of subjective identity , … again questions his identifications , along with his capacities for speech and symbolisation ’ ( p. 9 ) , and the ‘ open structure ’ of the novel which explores a similar fluidity , negotiating the ‘ frontiers between differences of sex or identity , reality and fantasy , act and discourse ’ , Kristeva suggests that some form of literary history , that of novelistic discourse , might contribute to the fundamental project of psychoanalysis , that is , ‘ how to understand perversion in a way that is at once faithful and noncomplacent ’ ( p. 22 ) . |
| 17 | It 's a place that is at once both familiar and foreign . |
| 18 | But you may have to think hard and long and reject many ideas that seemed promising before arriving at an ending to your book that is at once what everyone all along expected and what no one , or hardly anyone , thought would happen in that way . |
| 19 | For the conditions described in this book it is the selection of the remedy that is of far greater importance than the specific potency used . |
| 20 | The task is further complicated by the fact that the collection of regional data for the EC is not only a vast undertaking but often produces output that is of more doubtful reliability than the national counterpart . |
| 21 | I get clues as to how a particular family organises its life , whether the room is a room for the whole family or a , a room that 's perhaps excludes children or a room that 's for best , that kind of which not only tells you something about that particular family but , when you 've seen enough homes , tells you about general patterns that are going on in social life . |
| 22 | Good good that 's on there and keep ? |
| 23 | Drink your tea that 's on there . |
| 24 | have you turned them off , have you turned that thing off it 'll cook in the heat that 's on there wo n't it ? |
| 25 | We 've got one hoe that 's at least two hundred years old ! |
| 26 | It 's David Wilson 's The stinky jacket that 's over there . |
| 27 | It 's about a twenty minute long band practice that 's about how long it usually bloody is . |
| 28 | Right now so the tap is to control the speed at which the acid goes in and if there is any gas that 's in there it ca n't escape out of that pipe again it 's got to go down the other pipe . |
| 29 | Now at the moment the black chemical that 's in there is not doing a great deal . |
| 30 | If I put this white if I put the white paper behind the flask , can you see the gas that 's in there ? |