Example sentences of "that is [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wrenching cry at the start of the Finale claps a vice on the emotions that is sustained through to the ambivalent release provided by the Epilogue , and Barbirolli is one of the few conductors to prolong the agony of the climax by observing VW 's protracted emphasis on the grinding trombone and tube underpinning . |
| 2 | In certain areas of Britain there is also a ‘ tradition ’ of digging out badgers , so that they may be subjected to the same merciless treatment that is meted out to the fox . |
| 3 | As these winds fail the mass of ocean water that is piled up in the far western Pacific ( where the sea level is several centimetres higher than in the east ) comes flooding back . |
| 4 | If such covenants are mixed with negative covenants , which appear on the Register , or if they are contained in a document that is bound up in the certificate , they will be apparent , and a conveyancer acting for an original covenantor who is selling should peruse these covenants , providing in the contract for a covenant of indemnity against breach of any positive covenants by the buyer ( see below ) ; ( see special condition K , 34 ) . |
| 5 | That overlooks the protection that is built in to the dampened banding system . |
| 6 | They are woven from rather coarse flexible tubing , and are driven from a compressed-air supply that is strapped on at the waist . |
| 7 | If the project does not get into gear now and if we go back to the drawing board , it will be decades before we get another scheme that is worked through to the present level . |
| 8 | It is something that is passed on down the generations , from each High King or Queen to the direct heir . ’ |
| 9 | Down the dog 's back runs a nylon tape with a small karabiner at its ends , which hooks on to a tug line that is crimped on to the tow line . |
| 10 | Sex is like the cat that is let out of the bag : once out it is difficult to put back . |
| 11 | This is because 40 per cent of all the information that is taken in through the eyes is for balance alone . |
| 12 | The amount of money that is taken out of the country 's economy by cannabis each year is estimated at £250,000,000 the street value being nearer £500,000,000 . |
| 13 | As we have seen , the long-lived gene as an evolutionary unit is not any particular physical structure but the textual archival information that is copied on down the generations . |