Example sentences of "that [is] [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Loess is a clay that is easily cut and holds its shape ; it can be incredibly accommodating as a building material . |
| 2 | This is a problem that is easily overlooked when viewing a property , and can be a genuine problem in the future . |
| 3 | 5.20 Keyholders To ensure that at all times the Landlord has [ and the local Police force has ] written notice of the name home address and home telephone number of at least [ 2 ] key holder[s] of the Premises While this is not necessarily objectionable it is a provision that is easily overlooked and imposes an obligation on the tenant which may not be appropriate in the circumstances . |
| 4 | LTP is q phenomenon that is easily produced and manipulated by classical neurophysiological techniques , so its popularity as a potential memory model is scarcely surprising . |
| 5 | Well the money would be very welcome at a company that is again finding that computers are a gurgling cash drain , and a single outside investor is very different matter to a host of fractious small shareholders and institutional investors . |
| 6 | It is extremely important that you have an organisation structure that is clearly understood and then you should not keep altering it . |
| 7 | The main contribution of CLE-I is substantial coverage of English constructions in both syntax and semantics that is well motivated and hence extensible ; in contrast to SPAR , it was not built mainly with anaphor resolution in mind . |
| 8 | It is important for the elderly to have heating in their bedroom because of the risk of hypothermia , and it is also essential to make sure that they are living in a home that is well ventilated as well as warm . |
| 9 | The communication between the members of the colony depends on a system of chemical exchange that is badly disrupted if the temperature rises too high . |
| 10 | But , he adds : ‘ There is an enormous advantage in building change on to something that is already known and respected . |
| 11 | Boston 's solution is to look to the example of Cuba , where she recently found it ‘ exhilarating to see a third-world nation that is adequately fed and healthy ’ . |
| 12 | In the case of trends in tobacco smoking ( and by implication of trends in the diseases to which it contributes ) the sum of Australian experience supports the view that centrally coordinated action that is adequately funded and deliberately built on broad based support can speed the fall in smoking prevalence . |
| 13 | In such a situation it is possible for the parent 's self control to snap and in a moment of aberration he may strike the child in a manner that is instantly regretted and most unlikely ever to be repeated . ’ |
| 14 | But by this time it 's become easy to forgive a film that is pleasingly constructed and charmingly executed . |
| 15 | That is to say , your study will provide you with the knowledge that is generally accepted as making up the subject . |
| 16 | As used here , it is also confined to a type of disorder that is normally described as ‘ functional ’ . |
| 17 | But about many of its manifestations there can be something ominous — something that is acutely understood and eloquently exposed in The Counterlife . |
| 18 | Norwegian Jacquard : This stitch design option will allow you to knit many different colours in a design style that is best described as based on the traditional Scandinavian type of pattern , where small designs are laid on to a multi-coloured striped background . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The Piaroa definition of ideal maturity for men is identical to that for women ; but the Shavante define ideal manhood as the achievement of a state that is both opposed and superior to the feminine . |
| 22 | Some build up a sense of foreboding that is either confirmed or denied , some make us laugh all the way through , some seem written only to outrage . |
| 23 | Each sufferer from addictive disease tends to have one favourite " drug of choice " that is particularly craved although some sufferers may have two or more " drugs of choice " that are equally craved . |
| 24 | Broadly speaking , it is easier to obtain funding for explanatory research that seems to provide guidance to policy-makers than for purely academic research , and for research that is statistically based than for research that is more qualitative in its approach . |
| 25 | Those parts of the Bill are vehicles for British Rail to do work that is publicly demanded but which it resolutely refuses to give even the slightest hint that it contemplates . |
| 26 | Unfortunately , she was never able really to influence developments in the way that Britain should , by being right in the middle of events , and being seen as a joint , willing partner in Europe — not a country that is always ducking and diving and looking for ways of putting party and even narrow national interests before those of the wider European concept . |
| 27 | The explanation that is usually given as to why we do n't see broken cups gathering themselves together off the floor and jumping back onto the table is that it is forbidden by the second law of thermodynamics . |
| 28 | The deep-seated feeling that man 's nature is essentially structured to survive nomadically and that he needs to be on the move in some way if he is to be satisfied , is complemented by the mystics ' witness that true human fulfilment is the concomitant of what is experienced as a spiritual journey to a goal beyond time that is occasionally anticipated and known in time , the element within which our curiously mixed physical and spiritual natures cohere and mature . |
| 29 | Suppose , for example , a group is given a task that is tightly defined and where the group has previous experience of similar talks , it is likely to succeed by operating at a formal stage level . |
| 30 | 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 . |