Example sentences of "that is [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But how do we sustain , in prose or verse , a feeling that is intensely personal , not obviously called up by something ‘ on the outside ’ but which seems to be embedded deep within us ? |
| 2 | Born in Romania ( and thus sharing part of Leonard 's eastern European background ) , transferred by his parents to Canada in the harsh years of the early century , he represents , perhaps more than any other , not the genteel ‘ English ’ background common to many of his fellow-workers , but a rough , raw Canadian view that is intensely patriotic , proletarian , passionate and pure . |
| 3 | This indicator must be a characteristic that is easily identifiable , and which clearly distinguishes working-class students from others . |
| 4 | Clearly , then , the primary need when dealing with the information issue is to establish clearly what various staff need to do their jobs and then to see how to provide this more limited selection of information in a form that is easily available and accessible . |
| 5 | Because they are larger than other cells and have special staining cytoplasm that is easily recognizable , a trail of migrating cells can be seen in the embryo . |
| 6 | But , as ambient water temperature falls , they will need food that is easily digestible so that , should a sudden cold snap occur , there will be little or no waste matter to decay in their gut . |
| 7 | How can we build technology that is fundamentally human-oriented ? |
| 8 | This knowledge characterizes the contradictions experienced under the capitalist mode of production as ‘ normal ’ or as ‘ glitches ’ or ‘ hiccups ’ in a system that is fundamentally sound . |
| 9 | There is a fascinating groundswell of feeling on the avant-garde led by Martin Margiela with his elaborately deconstructed and reconstructed flea-market treasures for a fashion that is fundamentally different from the designerisms of the Eighties . |
| 10 | It differs in that the alternatives offered for choice include one that is physically identical to the conditional cue ( the sample ) . |
| 11 | This suggests the presence of a political mood that is electorally exploitable . |
| 12 | It is unrealistic to expect one side or other to put forward a constructive proposal that is immediately acceptable to the other side . |
| 13 | It calls for simplicity that is neither dull nor empty and for humility that is in no way false . ’ |
| 14 | Fundamental policies have been overturned by a remote headquarters ( ie the Scottish Office ) in a fashion that is neither accountable nor responsive . |
| 15 | ISS focused on the fourth and fifth years because it is in these years that pupils tend to narrow their curriculum , as schools frequently have a very small core with large option schemes , with the result that some pupils pursue a curriculum that is neither broad nor balanced . |
| 16 | This is a project which is currently being pursued by contemporary women artists who , unlike Bridget Riley perhaps , do not believe that art is necessarily free of gender : ‘ in order to discover what is retrievable from the abstract project , we must subject it to an interrogation that is neither submissive nor cynical ’ . |
| 17 | The misunderstanding that good medicine and good science are in conflict ( or worse , that there is a clash between compassion and science ) may arise from a failure to distinguish medical trials from human biological research that is neither preventive nor therapeutic . |
| 18 | From then on , she trips and twirls like a prima donna at an infant ballet class , gurgles and squeaks to the point of practically begging to be mercy killed , and generally flaunts a dodgy child sexuality that is neither funny nor subversive , but is stupid and dangerous . |
| 19 | If we are successful in identifying these the opportunities may exist to prevent a situation that is desperately difficult to cure . |
| 20 | But it is the sense of abandonment and utter loneliness that is most powerful , in the realisation that the cry can not be heard . |
| 21 | I have been through such a storm before , and it is the gusting that is most dangerous . ’ |
| 22 | Pasteurisation — avoided by skilled brewers in both Britain and other leading brewing nations — leaves an unpleasant burnt sugar taste to beer that is most apparent in low gravity drinks . |
| 23 | So too with the body clock : it might be that several outputs with different periods are possible and that we tend to concentrate upon the daily or circadian clock because this is the period that is most useful to the organism and which has naturally been accentuated by the environment with its 24-hour period . |
| 24 | Not unexpectedly , perhaps , it contains that spot on the world 's surface that is most distant from land — where the longitude 118° 30'W intersects 47° 30 'S is an equal 1,560 miles from the nearest coasts of Chile , peter Island in Antarctica and an uninhabited British colonial possession , a member of the Pitcairn group called Ducie Island . |
| 25 | The structure can be stabilised by a triangulation that is most economic when symmetrical and evolves into the familiar forms of roof trusses , bridges , arches and vaulting . |
| 26 | It is quite possible that that arrangement is the one that is most conducive to the public good . |
| 27 | A clear problem is the kind of model that is most suitable for representing the architecture of documents and multimedia data and for providing usable query languages . |
| 28 | The announcements mean that EDI*Net customers can communicate with trading partners using the technology that is most suitable to their overall computing strategy . |
| 29 | It is a basic but rarely articulated feature of the modern economic system that the highest pay is given for the work that is most prestigious and most agreeable . |
| 30 | It is doubtless the affective aspect of the human soul that is most decisive in our behavioural choices . |