Example sentences of "that [is] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Members working on behalf of a prisoner learn a lot about that country — its culture and political allegiance for example — knowledge that is no longer useful when the case is closed . |
| 2 | Last night a group of small children sang ‘ L'Internationale ’ , uncertain about the words , out of tune , but with an authenticity and optimism that is no longer possible in Europe . |
| 3 | For industrial society has made a strange covenant with humanity : it has promised us that we can exist independently of nature , in the gilded cocoon of a technosphere that is no longer tuned to the archaic necessities of seed-time , harvest and the vagaries of the seasons . |
| 4 | The implication of this is that something that is no longer capable of supporting you — this may involve beliefs and people as much as material structures — will fall by the wayside . |
| 5 | The fact that Christians find themselves caught up with a religion that is no longer related to work or community life , but instead to leisure , tells us something about the whole process of privatisation . |
| 6 | However , I agree that it 's unreasonable to expect people to pay good money for a forecast that is no longer relevant and we shall look at ways of eliminating this problem . |
| 7 | In Islam , it symbolizes the bridge between Paradise , the world of men and the world below , and still retains a religious significance that is no longer evident in the West . |
| 8 | In an article on science fiction , Jean Baudrillard maintains that the traditional mode of the genre depended on a simulation of expansion that is no longer feasible in the contemporary world . |
| 9 | Further evidence comes from the fact that the chromosomes are littered with old genetic text that is no longer used , but which still makes recognizable sense . |
| 10 | Because recentralization of business my be a correct and and fashionable philosophy or perhaps one that is no longer fashionable I do n't know it still needs we believe a global approach a coherent approach to tie these things together so the organization can not only get the benefit of responsiveness and flexibility at a departmental but the leverage to exploit that information on behalf of the organization as a whole . |
| 11 | In the discussion of Chaucer 's Reeve 's Tale in Chapter 4 of this book , however , we shall find an argument that this sort of " measure for measure " reading has sometimes been imputed by modern critics to texts in a way that is neither strongly supported by the text itself nor an enhancement of the reading of the text . |
| 12 | Institutions thus have to make a judgement as to what liquidity ratio is best — one that is neither too high nor too low . |
| 13 | There are degrees of life and the highest is the one that is most fervently lived . |
| 14 | Both the silver and golden orfe make good pond fish , but it is the golden kind that is most frequently encountered . |
| 15 | information such as basic measurements of bone dimensions can be added to the computer 's database and discriminant analysis can then predict the group that is most probably correct . |
| 16 | This model is the one that is most readily comparable with the model of bond evaluation developed in the last chapter . |
| 17 | First , this is achieved by recognition of the CH1 domain , the portion of Fab that is most highly conserved . |
| 18 | As to ‘ its effect upon national character ’ , Pearson thought that ‘ whether we are changing in the direction of a higher or lower morality is … the point that is most really at issue ’ . |
| 19 | It is the area that is most often relegated to the ‘ we 'll do that when there 's time ’ list and , when it is undertaken , it is in forms that are threatening , unrealistic , irrelevant , time consuming and unused . |
| 20 | To this end , we must inculcate in our students not only enabling skills such as fluency in English , particularly written English , IT competence , and the ability to communicate but also creative , problem-solving skills — the phrase that is most often used is ‘ transferable skills ’ — which include a willingness to engage with new concepts and techniques . |
| 21 | Of the four features of additional information , it is the grammar code that is most often incorrect . |
| 22 | The other type suggests that it is the relations between features that is most important--eg the extent to which one feature ( such as car body size ) can predict others ( such as engine size ) . |
| 23 | It is the ITV network that is most obviously threatened by Pearson . |
| 24 | The granting of patents on plants rewards a technology that could lead to the genetic pollution of nature , an outcome that is clearly not in the public interest . |
| 25 | All of us are aware of the problems of someone who was living alone and struggling to maintain a large house , but I am genuinely surprised at Conservative Members ' enthusiasm for a benefit that is clearly not targeted . |
| 26 | This always results in numerical underestimating , a factor that is clearly not a problem when a specific cell type is identified by a specific marker : then , morphological distinctions become irrelevant . |
| 27 | If any part of your house has a flat roof that is clearly poorly insulated , you can tackle the problem from above or below . |
| 28 | It is ‘ a system that is clearly out of control , that threatens to destroy firms and that , if left unchecked , will seriously impair the competitiveness of US industry in the global marketplace ’ . |
| 29 | By contrast , some patients seem to have a frequency that is rarely less than 10 in 24 hours and need to take antidiarrhoeal agents and modify their diet . |
| 30 | The Monster scowls and a green tongue emerges that is altogether too long and snakelike ; green slurry flows down its chin into the plastic bibdish . |