Example sentences of "that is [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is an arid , fragile environment that is easily damaged by the mechanical impact of motorcycle tyres and according to Luckenbach ( 1975 , quoted in Edington and Edington 1986 ) the ‘ Hare and Hounds ’ race has resulted in the destruction of some 140 000 creosote bushes ( Larrea divaricata ) , 64 000 burro-bushes ( Franseria dumosa ) and 15 000 Mojave yuccas ( Yucca schidigera ) due to mechanical impact and the exposure of plant roots by subsequent soil erosion . |
| 2 | As we have seen , this is a crucial part of the mountain goat 's annual cycle and one that is easily disrupted by hunting . |
| 3 | This presumably reflects a relatively weak interaction of P100 with CREB that is easily perturbed under blotting conditions . |
| 4 | From the point of view of security you do not want a door that is all glass , neither do you want a hollow plywood-type door that is easily kicked in . |
| 5 | The saturated fat in a diet , more importantly , stimulates the liver to produce more cholesterol in a form that is easily deposited onto the linings of the arteries . |
| 6 | AIS sees Skymaster as an important way of getting its information over to the public in an efficient , quickly updated fashion that is easily accessed . |
| 7 | But for /Ε/ , the short variant can be a low vowel ( [ a , ae ] ) and the long variant is a mid vowel that is easily heard to be qualitatively distinct . |
| 8 | Loess is a clay that is easily cut and holds its shape ; it can be incredibly accommodating as a building material . |
| 9 | ‘ 'T IS a lie that is easily disproven , ’ he said coolly , but the ferocity was gone from his expression . |
| 10 | Their impact comes from layers of muted colour and a newly chic sloppiness that is easily imitated by donning any jacket far too big for you . |
| 11 | This is a problem that is easily overlooked when viewing a property , and can be a genuine problem in the future . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | When we see the sun , he says , the ‘ immediate object ’ of our perceiving mind is not the sun itself ‘ but something that is intimately joined to our soul , … an idea ’ . |
| 15 | A stimulus that is reliably followed by a given consequence ( whether this be a US or no event at all ) can be ignored . |
| 16 | On the other hand , the structural failure in flight of a privately owned light aircraft of a type that is extensively used , possibly all over the world , must justify an investigation in depth while a four engined airliner carrying 400 passengers damaging its wing-tip on a passenger terminal building while taxying need not rate so highly . |
| 17 | Hence the words of an Act carry a sort of disembodied or dehumanised meaning : not necessarily the meaning intended by any actual person in particular , but the meaning that is conventionally attached to such words . |
| 18 | That 's the kind of financial juggling that is desperately needed by Bradford . |
| 19 | I hope that my right hon. Friend will be able to provide not only the extra helicopters that are needed but the extra security that is desperately needed all the way across the Bristol channel . |
| 20 | The Workbook is 96 pages of text that is thematically related , unit by unit , to the Student 's Book . |
| 21 | It is the kind of good , intelligent paternalism that is urgently needed in our education system . |
| 22 | In no circumstances whatsoever will there be any admission that the real basic cause of the failure is the one that is most feared to be true . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The A.C. is also to share a relevant simple story that is clearly related to the goal . |
| 25 | It is extremely important that you have an organisation structure that is clearly understood and then you should not keep altering it . |
| 26 | In answering the question posed by the preliminary issue in this case affirmatively I believe that I am doing no more than giving the answer that is clearly called for by application of the common law principles of the law of negligence . |
| 27 | An OTC dealer loyally argued against him with a vigour that is rarely seen in a university environment . |
| 28 | One of the important aspects of country house building that is rarely demonstrated is the basic structure — your photograph shows , in admirable clarity , the arrangement of load-bearing walls ( and , incidentally , a precarious water tank in the roof ) which are the bones on which the skin and organs are built . |
| 29 | The informal petty bourgeoisie is a term that is rarely found in attempts to outline class structure in Latin America , but Portes ' usage refers to small-scale entrepreneurs , who have similar characteristics in the class analysis to the dominant class , but who operate at a very different level and have a somewhat precarious existence . |
| 30 | Young Group , the open cast coal miner that is soon to lose its quote on the unlisted securities market , was a peculiar market . |