Example sentences of "that [is] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Between 1931 and 1939 — that is to say between the ages of 26 and 34 — Nizan published two polemical essays , Aden Arabie ( 1931 ) and Les Chiens de garde ( 1932 ) , three novels , Antoine Bloye ( 1933 ) , Le Cheval de Troie ( 1935 ) and La Conspiration ( 1938 ) , one historical text , Chronique de septembre ( 1939 ) , an adaptation of a Greek anti-war play by Aristophanes , Les Acharniens ( 1937 ) , an edition of Greek materialist philosophy , Les Materialistes de l'antiquite ( 1938 ) , an edition of Marx , Morceaux choisis de Marx ( 1934 ) , and two translations of extensive and important contemporary texts on America and the Soviet Union , L'Amerique tragique ( 1933 ) by T. Dreiser , and Les Soviets dans les affaires mondiales ( 1933 ) by L. Fischer . |
| 2 | Obviously frost-free models which mean you never have to defrost are as useful as self-cleaning ovens , and additional luxuries include iced water and crushed ice dispensers , automatic ice makers and the kind of American model with almost instant ( that is to say about an hour ) automatic ice cream and sorbet or sherbet-makers . |
| 3 | Christians were baptized into ‘ Christ ’ , not into ‘ Jesus ’ , that is to say into a relationship to Jesus as God , not into the human Jesus . |
| 4 | Can it be true that , master of an essentially observational science , he has only ever made one observation in his life ( that is to say down the mines in Lancashire ) ? |
| 5 | In the ‘ dependent ’ world of the first half of the 20th century , movements for national liberation and independence were the main agents for the political emancipation of most of the globe , that is to say for an elimination of imperial administration and , more significantly , direct military domination by the imperial powers . |
| 6 | Locally , that is to say on a scale small compared with the radius of curvature r of the surface . |
| 7 | Every separatist movement in Europe that I can think of bases itself on ‘ ethnicity ’ , linguistic or not , that is to say on the assumption that ‘ we ’ — the Basques , Catalans , Scots , Croats , or Georgians are a different people from the Spaniards , the English , the Serbs or the Russians , and therefore we should not live in the same state with them . |
| 8 | Although the Geneva Convention was not signed until 29 April 1958 , that is to say after the E.E.C . |
| 9 | It claims to have been made ‘ on the advice of prelates ’ as well as of ‘ earls , barons and other faithful subjects of our realm who are of our council ’ , that is to say in the parliament which was then sitting . |
| 10 | The cellulose chains which are laid down in the cell-wall are long and they have their length more or less parallel to the length of the cell or fibre , that is to say in the direction of the applied stress . |
| 11 | The most important chairman ( of the municipality ) was a Jlulat from Tazarbu , that is to say from the category of people least involved in the Kufran disputes . |
| 12 | By contrast , a writer whose allegiances ultimately lie with the bourgeoisie would necessarily understand political developments from the outside , that is to say from the perspective of an oppressive class . |
| 13 | Yeah the other thing on staffing tt which is a related , but in a sense I 'm trying to keep it as something of a separate issue , and that is to do with the amount of management time . |
| 14 | Her first employment was likely to be as a " reading girl " , that is to sit on a stool and read out the copy to a compositor . |
| 15 | It has only one aim and that is to please for a fee . ’ |
| 16 | That is to try for a solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict through a United Nations peace conference . |
| 17 | No that 's that 's to do with the sun . |
| 18 | Well that 's really not our problem I mean that 's to do with the deregularization of er bus companies allowing any anybody to start up a bus company . |
| 19 | Now when they 're born there wo n't be any problems at all and that 's to do with the way they feed before they 're born , how 's a baby fed before it 's born ? |
| 20 | that 's to do with the Norway from English |