Example sentences of "that [is] [adv] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Without the possibility , then , of altering one 's perceptual inputs at will it is difficult to see how the information provided by the input systems could ever be centered upon a self , a self that is not just a repository of information , but something which addresses itself to reality and for whom reality is centred upon itself .
2 The knowing use of the conventions of the detective story to write something that is not quite a detective story not only follows a rather well-established practice in post-war Italian writing , of which the novels of Gadda and Sciascia are the best-known examples ( cf.
3 If , for example , you attend a meeting where the ‘ objective ’ is to ‘ discuss XY and Z ’ that is not really an objective at all .
4 We must campaign strongly to ensure that men and women still have a state pension that is n't just a pittance at sixty .
5 The Department of Human Resources , the Repo Men monitoring information , maintaining order in a city that is n't really a city .
6 The income the garbage pickers receive for each item is extremely low and reduced even further by the competition between them , which is encouraged by the system that is very much a buyer 's market .
7 We turn now to a type of power that is more specifically an attribute of large companies , and which is our central concern .
8 You do n't need to be a programmer ; there 's no code to write , and you do n't even have to adopt the programmer 's mindset that is so often a prerequisite for building advanced database applications .
9 So what 's so special about an alkali that 's not quite a special about a base .
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