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 | We must campaign strongly to ensure that men and women still have a state pension that is n't just a pittance at sixty . |
| 4 | The Department of Human Resources , the Repo Men monitoring information , maintaining order in a city that is n't really a city . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | So what 's so special about an alkali that 's not quite a special about a base . |