Example sentences of "that [is] [adv] [verb] [conj] [vb past] " in BNC.

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1 But , he adds : ‘ There is an enormous advantage in building change on to something that is already known and respected .
2 As it does with anything that is widely liked and appreciated , this modern money-mad world has made the rose big business , and the plant obeys all the ups and downs of fashion , high pressure competition and selling — even racketeering — as do pop records , clothes and motor cars .
3 We have the freedom to travel nearly anywhere in the world , English is a language that is widely spoken and understood , most of us have at least a basic secondary education and we have the training resources and ability to go , we do not take full advantage of it .
4 Proponents of this view tend to see the idea of parental possession as one that is still protected and upheld by the law and by social agencies ; and they believe this state of affairs to be damaging to children , given that parents ' and children 's interests sometimes conflict .
5 The kinematics approach recognizes that the mechanism is constrained in such a way that only a prescribed motion is possible ; a mechanism that is randomly assembled and disassembled with no known input conditions is hardly a mechanism and is impossible to analyse by any method .
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