Example sentences of "is that [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm now there 's two questions really , one is is that partly to offset the erm lack of productivity that we had anticipated in the budget . |
| 2 | One worrying aspect concerning the reopening of freight lines to passengers is that invariably where such revivals have taken place , BR has badly underestimated the level of business . |
| 3 | What actually does happen , in most cases , is that either you do not lose the weight in the first place , or , if you do , it is on a difficult diet and when it finishes you get fat once again . |
| 4 | But none of the larger firms has done so yet , so the obvious conclusion to be drawn is that either they prefer to live dangerously or they still do n't believe that anyone would actually go after them for their personal assets . |
| 5 | A corollary of the mechanism is that either not too many kinds of clusters must be involved or the collapse size has to be fairly independent of the cluster structure . |
| 6 | A further possibility is that either the prestige or the style of the journals has altered over the study period , thus encouraging submission ( or acceptance ) of larger studies . |
| 7 | What is clear is that either through the use of broadband distribution or by means of data compression-decompression , multimedia will play an important and innovative role in a range of online applications in the 1990s . |
| 8 | The implication is that either households move as circumstances change , or local communities consist of individual households whose needs change simultaneously . |
| 9 | And she was glad to have the strength of anger against him as she deciphered coolly , ‘ What you 're really saying is that either I leave Travis alone , or , if you ca n't get me over the Norwood & Chambers contract , you wo n't rest until you find some other contract I 've had small dealings with and which did n't work out , which added together will amount to dereliction of duty . ’ |
| 10 | Another insight that has been coming to me consistently is that instead of beseeching God to undertake certain actions or to grant certain mercies or blessings we should state our faith that He is already and always at work in the way that we desire , so that our petition becomes an expansion of our address to Him , a relative clause expressing our conviction of faith that He is already doing what we were about to request Him to do . |
| 11 | The difference you get with the Gyroflo Oven is that instead of the usual 5 shelf positions you get 7 , each with 25% more usable cooking area per shelf . |
| 12 | The striking point , however , is that instead of merely denying the charge , he had set out to vindicate himself by finding a scientific reason why the world could not be eternal . |
| 13 | The only problem is that instead of sitting across a desk from the one customer , you are talking to hundreds or thousands or even millions , in their homes or their cars or trains or buses . |
| 14 | The result is that instead of trying to recover the often indeterminable illocutionary force intended by the author for this or that character , the actor finds himself inventing someone who might have wished to express this or that speech act by means of the speeches assigned to him in the text . |
| 15 | What has tended to happen historically , with earlier attempts to provide alternatives to custody , is that instead of moving offenders currently receiving a sentence of imprisonment down-tariff , in this case to some form of punishment in the community , down-tariff offenders — those who formerly were dealt with by a fine or conditional discharge — have been given the new sentence . |
| 16 | In fact , the problem for the vast majority of amateurs is that instead of thinking about hitting late , they should concentrate on hitting sooner . |
| 17 | ( The only exception is that instead of ‘ the New Commonwealth and Pakistan ’ , we say simply ‘ the New Commonwealth ’ . |
| 18 | The problem essentially is that instead of estimating the true MPC t α t , in equation ( 3.6 ) we are in fact estimating the composite function in equation ( 3.13 ) . |
| 19 | One of the techniques of cohesion ( see Chapter 5 , p. 100 ) is that instead of repeating a phrase , it is possible to use what are called grammatical words like pronouns " it " , " he " , " she " , " they " , or demonstratives like " this " . |
| 20 | What is known , is that approximately 200 enemy aircraft were encountered , in what was the most concentrated attack made on the 401st . |
| 21 | The first is that both Labour and the Conservatives emerge more or less united — the former striking an attacking pose in the foreground , the latter stoutly closing defensive ranks behind . |
| 22 | His only known connection is that both he and Sterling have held shares in Winchmore , a small London company under DTI scrutiny . |
| 23 | The drawback is that both the sender and the recipient , if living outside the US , are at the mercy of prevailing exchange rates and foreign banks may charge a commission . |
| 24 | The drawback is that both the sender and the recipient , if living outside the US , are at the mercy of prevailing exchange rates and foreign banks may charge a commission . |
| 25 | The drawback is that both the sender and the recipient , if living outside the US , are at the mercy of prevailing exchange rates and foreign banks may charge a commission . |
| 26 | These things are expensive but the crucial thing is that both my name and the name of the RCN has been cleared . ’ |
| 27 | The first point is that both ministers and officials involved in the review stress the lack of drama , tantrum-throwing and brinkmanship . |
| 28 | The traditional one is that both the Conservative Party and government were in decline in the late 1920s and that the party leaders were ‘ too supine to do anything about this loss of prestige . ’ |
| 29 | If the book does have one central purpose it is to shed light upon the process of the changing system of higher education in Britain , and if it reaches one clear conclusion it is that both Oxford and Cambridge have performed admirably in recent years . |
| 30 | Françoise Cribier finds one reason for the remarkable exodus of retired couples from Paris is that both man and wife need the husband to get out of the house . |