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

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1 Instead , however , we rely on the courts to review managerial decisions as a means of double checking that the directors are acting professionally ( that is impersonally and for ends related to that of their organization ) .
2 This adherence to the decision in Morgan has extended to a reiteration and confirmation of Lord Hailsham 's statement in the case that a defendant who has intercourse ‘ nolens volens , that is recklessly and not caring whether the victim be a consenting party or not , ’ will be liable for rape .
3 That is partly because the editors have not included anything on the ‘ mainstream ’ alternatives to the tokamak — stellarators and tandem mirrors for example As the title says , the book is devoted to unconventional approaches — some would use the word ‘ eccentric ’ — to fusion .
4 That is partly because Mr Major still needs a theme .
5 That is partly because of the third and biggest failing : lack of leadership .
6 That is largely because responsibilities are too widely dispersed , among such organisations as the stock exchange , the Serious Fraud Office , the Crown Prosecution Service , the trade department and the SIB .
7 That is largely because of persistent problems in its chemicals business .
8 That is largely because of the dedication of the staff and the increased resources provided by this Government .
9 " Do you know , Dida — that ceiling is the first part of Portugal I 've seen that is just as I imagined it . "
10 That is what 's ahead of us and we 've got to warn people that that is ahead and try and take action now before it gets out of control .
11 That is wholly and absolutely wrong . ’
12 That is both because bombing does not always make the victims knuckle under — sometimes it can stiffen their resolve — and because it would be hard knowing what to bomb .
13 In the context of the agreement , analysts were quoted as suggesting that acquiring a software base for a new supercomputer has traditionally been the biggest drag on sales , and doubting that Convex and HP had cracked it — but up to now there has been no massively parallel machine that is both hardware-and software-compatible with a big existing applications base .
14 If he seems to have had a foot in the door for an awfully long time then that is probably because he made his debut as an 18–year-old during the Dermot Reeve era .
15 If you delay the answering of letters , of course that creates more letters chasing up the first ones and that is again where you are getting your priorities wrong , admittedly on a very small items .
16 The second point er chairman is that one particular solution adopted by a couple of County Councils the one in particular has been to have a local act requiring registration of car boot sales which gives enforcement officers a chance to know they 're going to happen and it also requires display of names and addresses not suggesting it is not entirely suggest that is here but late last night we simply felt we want to talk about the possibility of a framework enabling this legislation which will allow that to happen on national basis oh , as a way of controlling this , this sort of activity .
17 An artist can never have seen too much , read too much , and even if the time is right for a fallow period , then that is exactly when it is also right to go out and see , read , feel , as deeply as possible .
18 That is simply because it has to be that low if some of these houses are to be considered habitable at all , and if others are to be inhabited by two , or often by three , families at the same time .
19 well meaning people but I mean the reason they 're saying that is simply because they do n't like what they 're doing full stop .
20 This as far as this is my personal opinion as far as that claim is concerned , that that is totally and utterly valid .
21 I suspect that is merely because I have always been able to anticipate when a fox is likely to be present as the result of scent , footprints and tell-tale evidence around the burrow mouth .
22 It is rare for such declarations to be made — but that is usually because people have n't given any thought as to how best to behave and therefore have nothing to declare .
23 For it to be useful , in a working situation , it must be adjusted to give the specific performance characteristics required by the user , in the concentration most appropriate to its intended function , with a form , texture and appearance , that is operationally and aesthetically desirable .
24 That is only if stage one of the Labour party 's proposals are implemented ; it does not take into account the effect of stage two .
25 Our opponents say we do cause such disturbance but I suspect that is only that is only because they see all canoeists as a noisy bunch of exuberant youngsters .
26 That is only because supplies of Thunderbirds did not arrive in Britain quickly enough to satisfy demand , according to toy experts .
27 If we may find this incongruous , that is only because we live in an age of collapsed hierarchies in which painters and sculptors are liable to be more highly regarded than their patrons or even their sitters .
28 Sometimes the women say she is a saint , but that is only because she has kept me here , and they do not like her .
29 Nothing can be more daunting for a beginner than to step up and smash his fist or foot through a neatly arranged stack of wood or tiles , but that is only because his mind constructs a barrier .
30 You need to make a conscious effort especially to get the tune right — at the beginning you will probably feel that you sound strange and maybe affected , but that is only because the intonation patterns are new to you .
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