Example sentences of "that [is] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They can not send us a box that is filled only with good apples , there has to be one that is bruised . ’ |
| 2 | But forewarned is forearmed , and we shall explore the power that is wielded especially by two important groups : the ‘ management ’ and the cynics . |
| 3 | The attitude that ‘ you must expect this at your age ’ is something that is heard all too often . |
| 4 | Nor is this just a problem that is eating away the character of historic towns and conservation areas . |
| 5 | Worcester 's population doubled from 4,000 to 8,000 between the mid-sixteenth and the mid-seventeenth century , a rise that is explained equally by natural increase and by immigration . |
| 6 | A provision that is written informally , or is described as a " procedure " or " code of practice " is , regardless of technical factors , likely to be interpreted as a lesser obligation rather than a " rule " or " regulation " . |
| 7 | Indeed , the loss of the parenting role is often something that is noticed only by the parents themselves . |
| 8 | This is even more confusing because the predator receives the impression that it is approaching a fish that is swimming straight towards it . |
| 9 | Also , if the wheel brake is of the type that is applied automatically with full airbrake , remember that you should avoid touching down with full airbrake . |
| 10 | However , in an interview in the Independent of March 9 the US ambassador to NATO said that " the alliance is not going to underwrite a security policy that is made somewhere else " . |
| 11 | If you have an organisation that is made up mostly of these two , they 're very good at planning and having ideas ; they have wonderful intellectual and logical discussions . |
| 12 | A struggle that is made all the harder by the fact that , at least within the social sciences , the majority of academic practitioners have many other aims besides the scientific . |
| 13 | It is more generally understood as pain that is made worse rather than better by increasing doses of morphine . |
| 14 | Israel is thrilled at the pace of absorption , and accuses the Arab world of manufacturing false conflict and fear ; a conflict that is whipping up greater hostility among two peoples who claim the same land . |
| 15 | Guglielmi reckons that it is the system software that is slowing down innovation for applications and hardware . |
| 16 | No country has yet settled on how to rid itself forever of the thousands of tonnes of highly radioactive nuclear waste that is piling up at power plants . |
| 17 | In the central offices of the Relief and Rehabilitation Commission , Shimelis Aduna , the head of the organisation , puts in perspective the aid that is getting through . |
| 18 | Until quite recently , the Japanese had very few problems with back pain ; now it is a problem that is getting rapidly more common . |
| 19 | Is it some aspect of your work or your life that is getting out of control ? |
| 20 | Finally , it is quite in order to conclude with a brief mention of any potentially useful information that is lacking either because it is not available to you or because it has never been collected ( but could be ) . |
| 21 | This gives it a bite that is lacking in much sociological research , which remains descriptive and under-theorized , and which sees all meaning systems as logically equal . |
| 22 | So support composite eight , composite ten , motion two seven eight and motion two eight three with that qualification , emergency motion number two and let's campaign for any effective policy for jobs and recovery and not this nonsense that is served up every week from this silly government . |
| 23 | Out of the European Cup and the Coca-Cola Cup , he wants to strengthen the side quickly to rescue a season that is fading fast . |
| 24 | In a spirit of friendship across the Floor of the House , I have to say that if the hon. Gentleman really thinks that he advances the cause of housing by denigrating my hon. Friend the Minister for Housing and Planning , he displays an ignorance that is staggering even by Labour party standards . |
| 25 | That this is a big paddock , and in the bottom of the right hand corner , if you stand on the road looking at it , there is a triangle of land that is tucked away , that you can hardly see from the roadside , that in my opinion is sufficiently secluded and sufficiently near to other services to allow us to go out to consultation . |
| 26 | He thinks he has saved for his holiday — a fallacy that is exposed only when he tries to redeem those bits of paper against an empty spending account . |
| 27 | ( Ironically , now that the extent of this leakage is being understood , there are too many reservoirs , collecting too much water for a depressed industrial market that is switching away from water-guzzling businesses like iron and steel . ) |
| 28 | In the same bracket we must put the four-ply all-wool that is spun specially for domestic knitting machines and is advertised as ‘ machine washable ’ . |
| 29 | It is often caused by every change of the weather , especially from warm to cold ; from perspiration that is checked especially if hot ; from taking cold ; from cold wet weather . |
| 30 | The wrenching cry at the start of the Finale claps a vice on the emotions that is sustained through to the ambivalent release provided by the Epilogue , and Barbirolli is one of the few conductors to prolong the agony of the climax by observing VW 's protracted emphasis on the grinding trombone and tube underpinning . |