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

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 She has clocked a personal best that is nearly two minutes faster than her nearest rival , Katrin Dorre , of Germany .
5 That is nearly treble the number five years ago .
6 That is nearly double what it was four years ago .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 For example , all that is physically necessary as regards food is to make sure that everyone has enough of the right sort .
12 now i if that is strictly wrong why do the shops put the sale notices up ?
13 This applies not only to work that is strictly social scientific , but also to that with , for example , a more medical or demographic orientation .
14 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 ) .
15 Most books in the beginners'-instruction manual genre are flat and factual , with writing that is grammatically correct , but with little awareness that the final product is intended for living human beings .
16 Does he agree that that is partly due to the failure of some consultants to seek organs on every possible occasion and also to the reluctance of some next of kin of potential organ donors to give their consent ?
17 You could say it is envy , and indeed that is partly true , And I wo n't pretend that a factor in one 's accepting such an invitation is not the thought of spending a week in a grand hotel .
18 Erm not necessarily no but er yes that that is partly important in that if it 's not there you ca n't use it .
19 An important advance in the understanding of extranodal lymphomas has been the description of a specific mucosa associated lymphoid tissue ( MALT ) that is normally present mainly in intestinal and bronchial mucosa .
20 Thus , if the buyer does not immediately buy replacement goods but does so subsequently and at a different price from the market price at the date of the breach , that is normally irrelevant .
21 Mass mortality of amphibians has been observed in Draycott cave in Somerset ( Table 1.1 ) , where the remains of many hundreds of individuals are preserved in a clay deposit that is normally wet all year .
22 The face of the Jersey is noticeably dished ( concave ) and there is something about it that is strongly suggestive of the humpless short-horned ‘ Iberian ’ breeds of the Middle East , Egypt and the coast of North Africa .
23 That is equally patronising , and the county clubs wo n't have that anyway , because of the fear of playing on substandard pitches on club grounds .
24 That is equally evident in other countries , whether formally centralised or not .
25 That is equally true .
26 Obviously parents must show a degree of control here and do as I do by restricting playing time , although that is admittedly difficult with all these portable devices now on the market .
27 It is how they perceive and define events , and how their consciousness forms and changes , that is ultimately decisive .
28 Er but based upon the surveys that we conducted in er nineteen eighty nine which is the basis of the traffic forecasts , er on and that is just twelve hour two way flows , we have a total flow on the A sixty one north er entering Harrogate of sixteen thousand three hundred vehicles .
29 Bollocks dad , that is just complete bollocks .
30 That is just success-worship .
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