Example sentences of "that is [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Presidents must operate in a political culture that is riddled with anti-governmental attitudes and is hostile to political leadership . |
| 2 | They can not send us a box that is filled only with good apples , there has to be one that is bruised . ’ |
| 3 | As he looked towards the Iconostasis , the wall that is filled with important and unique icons , he tried to re-create his grandfather 's torment , his inner pain and despair . |
| 4 | Here a great trough that is filled with Caenozoic sediments in northern Java and Sumatra ( where a sediment supply was available ) passes directly into a deep oceanic trough — the famous Flores Deep — where there was no such supply . |
| 5 | Anteating ( where " ants " are deemed for convenience to include termites — another convergence as we shall see ) is a " trade " that is filled by a variety of convergent mammals . |
| 6 | But forewarned is forearmed , and we shall explore the power that is wielded especially by two important groups : the ‘ management ’ and the cynics . |
| 7 | The attitude that ‘ you must expect this at your age ’ is something that is heard all too often . |
| 8 | The US is not the only country with economic problems that is looking to transfer pricing to provide additional tax revenues . |
| 9 | And Bechtel is setting up a joint venture with Kiewit that is looking at projects in 15 states and outlays of up to $1 billion . |
| 10 | They are less obtrusive than they might have been , but quite enough to dissipate the historically accurate atmosphere that is called for . |
| 11 | That the owners are not described may imply that they have withdrawn from the close relations with tenants , servants , and labourers that is called for from lords of the manor ; they have grown remote in more or less the way described by Bloomfield in his discussion of the harvest feast . |
| 12 | These tales are told with an extraordinary lightness : the frequency of the present or the perfect as narrative tenses ; the adoption of a simple but precise vocabulary ; the sparing use of adjectives ; the composition of short , essential paragraphs added one to the other , not like bricks , in the conventional metaphor of story-building , but more like transparent balloons lifting the story off the ground — with all of these techniques , Celati has created a mode of story-telling which shakes off the weight of narrative in what is a conscious and consistent effort to pare away the superstructure of ideology and ‘ that homogeneous and totalizing continuity that is called history ’ ( Celati 1975 : 14 ; cf. |
| 13 | As the eruption continues the ejected material piles up round the vent , building up that heap of material that is called a volcano . |
| 14 | In fact the power that is called God is beyond definition ; it is , as is stated of Brahman , ‘ neti , neti , — not this , not this ’ , and in our attempts to define it we are seeking to describe the indescribable . |
| 15 | This year came Ella to Britain , with his three sons , Clymen and Wlenking , and Cissa , in three ships ; landing at a place that is called Clymenshore . |
| 16 | There they slew many of the Welsh ; and some in flight they drove into the wood that is called Andred Sley . |
| 17 | Aragorn sings his song of Beren and Lúthien some fifty pages earlier with a certain reluctance , explaining that it is ‘ in the mode that is called ann-thennath among the Elves , but is hard to render in our Common Speech , and this is but a rough echo of it ’ . |
| 18 | It is this alternative that is called the competing behaviour ( CB ) . |
| 19 | I have many times entered into the place that is called , and rightly , the Gateway to Hell . |
| 20 | I suppose we were in that meteorological horror that is called an inversion , heat and humidity pressing down on us , numbing the brain and starting the sweat from every pore of the body . |
| 21 | But the New Testament teaches us , that apart from that new birth by the spirit , and that indwelling of Jesus Christ in our lives by the spirit , there is a subsequent experience that is called receiving or being baptized as a Holy Spirit . |
| 22 | But this does n't explain why we should think it is the sort that is invoked in an argument from analogy . |
| 23 | A puzzling question , especially one that is asked in the form of a riddle . |
| 24 | ‘ How do we do it , is the question that is asked , and the answer lies in the fact that we have experience in depth . ’ |
| 25 | Exposure to the Atlantic on the west gives rise to a cool , moist climate that is characterised by periods of powerful winds . |
| 26 | Primary sclerosing cholangitis ( PSC ) is a chronic cholestatic liver disease that is characterised by inflammation and fibrosis of both intra- and extrahepatic bile ducts . |
| 27 | Nor is this just a problem that is eating away the character of historic towns and conservation areas . |
| 28 | ‘ But it 's colour that is filtered . |
| 29 | Critical data that is filtered and compressed . |
| 30 | The men breathe air that is filtered to remove any radioactive dust , nerve gases or biological toxins . |