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

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1 And tha , that is invariably a problem .
2 Hanns Ebensten commented , apropos some of these letters , that ‘ If both John and I sound rather like silly fairies , it is because in the 1940s that is generally how young homosexual men behaved — only later did the male macho style of gays hit the scene .
3 There is a strange scene in Shakespeare 's Antony and Cleopatra that is generally , and wrongly , cut in performance .
4 But if that is generally known , surely it has no value ? ’
5 Thus if we are walking in the pastoral , remote country on the borders of Leicestershire and Rutland , following the Eye brook as it makes its way south through undulating fields to the Welland , we pass in a walk of nine or ten miles through a landscape modelled in five different centuries , and this in a part of England that is generally accounted somewhat dull , the monotonous product of parliamentary enclosure .
6 The main attribute of all the various mice and the software that has been produced around them is that is generally easier to use by those unskilled with a keyboard .
7 It has often struck me that remedial classes everywhere in the school system are heavily populated with boys needing help with their language development , yet when able girls slide down in mathematics , that is generally considered as something ‘ natural ’ about which no active steps need be taken .
8 So it was believed that a pronunciation change in one word would be followed by changes in all similar words — that there are laws of language evolution — and that is generally the case .
9 That is nearly treble the number five years ago .
10 She has clocked a personal best that is nearly two minutes faster than her nearest rival , Katrin Dorre , of Germany .
11 That is nearly twice as long as patients should have to wait according to the John Major 's Patients ' Charter .
12 In party-list systems , that is nearly always true .
13 That is nearly double what it was four years ago .
14 One thing is absolutely certain and that is nearly all the US companies that set out down the T.Q.M. route 10 years ago are still convinced they took the right decision .
15 The parish register from 1 January 1813 to 31 December 1817 records the occupations of 74 men , of whom 51 ( that is nearly 70 per cent ) were framework knitters ; the rest comprised 12 labourers , 2 woolcombers , 2 blacksmiths , a framesmith , a farmer and grazier , a publican , a gardener , a tailor , a brick mason and a soldier .
16 That is nearly always a mistake .
17 Instead , however , we rely on the courts to review managerial decisions as a means of double checking that the directors are acting professionally ( that is impersonally and for ends related to that of their organization ) .
18 This adherence to the decision in Morgan has extended to a reiteration and confirmation of Lord Hailsham 's statement in the case that a defendant who has intercourse ‘ nolens volens , that is recklessly and not caring whether the victim be a consenting party or not , ’ will be liable for rape .
19 Pots will be attractive to add instant colour and a path sweeps away under the pergola towards the rockery where it turns through a right angle in front of the rose bed , eventually ending at the vegetable plot that is neatly screened by the hedge .
20 If this exhibition means to report on the whole of twentieth-century American modernism then it has left out a great deal in the period between the two world wars ; work that is historically important and good even though sometimes ‘ provincial ’ with respect to Europe .
21 They have led , for example , to a focus on appearance and ‘ style ’ , and the way in which these may ‘ express ’ one 's individuality , that is historically novel .
22 That is effectively the official Home Office ceiling .
23 That is effectively we 're paying this extra fifty pence right resource misallocation we there is always what 's called a dead weight loss right to intervention , right it 's an inefficiency loss or an efficiency loss , due to the fact that we 're asking t , in this case farmers , right to using , use resources but farmers are n't the most efficient people in resources but in to erm , high tech computer companies , alright and if we gave pounds worth of support to a high tech computer company they would be able to produce more value as a result of that pound er than if we gave one pound to a farmer , simply because erm that , sort of the high tech industries are more productive , they 're more efficient .
24 ’ Useful ’ semantic information is that part of a word 's definition ( or its expansion ) that is semantically related to the sentential context of that word in typical usage .
25 First , we may think of the traditional or even oldfashioned type of man with tangible material things which belong to him — land and houses , horses and cattle , furniture and jewellery and pictures — things which he may use or destroy ( so far as that is physically possible ) ; from which he may exclude others ; which he may sell or give away or bequeath ; which , if he has made no disposition of them , will pass on his death to persons related to him .
26 It is a small step to suppose that such effects might also operate when a stimulus is presented in compound not with another that is physically present but with the associatively activated representation of such an event .
27 For example , all that is physically necessary as regards food is to make sure that everyone has enough of the right sort .
28 The parameter b , which characterizes the advantage of defectors against cooperators , is thus the only parameter in our model ; none of our findings are qualitatively altered if we instead set P= , with positive but significantly below unity ( so that is strictly satisfied ) .
29 now i if that is strictly wrong why do the shops put the sale notices up ?
30 This applies not only to work that is strictly social scientific , but also to that with , for example , a more medical or demographic orientation .
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