Example sentences of "that [is] the [adv] " in BNC.

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1 However , Beinn Alligin provides no such logistical problems and it 's a fabulous start to the walk up the Abhainn Coire Mhic Nobuil through a forest , again passing close to some splendid waterfalls , before you veer off to the left and head towards the dauntingly steep corrie that is the most direct route to the summit .
2 Police officers often use racialist language ( among themselves ) for effect , but it is the more casual and automatic use of such language that is the most telling … racialist language is quite commonly used over the personal radio .
3 For us , the Ceramics Fair has always made money and for a dealer that is the most important reason to return year after year .
4 He or she has to generate both questions and answers , and in a well-organised text it is the generating of questions that is the most difficult task .
5 The most complex trap of all , however , is the one that is the most familiar , the orb-web .
6 Several species of aphis attack waterlilies , but it is the true waterlily aphis that is the most devastating .
7 It is an exciting time for Douglas Reyburn which is undergoing a period of change that is the most significant in its sixty year history .
8 The financial upset is about six thousand pounds , but it' ; s the emotional upset that is the most disturbing thing
9 THERE is a face that pops up on TV screens that is the most instantly dislikeable I 've ever seen on the tube ; a medium that sets Olympic standards in throwing up instantly dislikeable mugs .
10 It is the work that is the most important thing to learn at school , with arithmetic being favoured by a three-to-one margin over being good .
11 Although losses may be equal , the side that is the better able to sustain them will derive most benefit from any encounter .
12 Consequently it is possible , even likely , that their observations may have a built-in bias that is the more confining because it is unconscious .
13 And all in a package that 's the most compact in existence — anywhere .
14 That 's certainly true and in a sense that 's the most obvious thing is n't it ?
15 If we look for the fashion that 's the veneer , it 's the meaning that 's the more important .
16 ‘ They 've just said you 've got a great backside — and from a West Indian that 's the highest compliment you can have . ’
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