Example sentences of "that is [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Presidents must operate in a political culture that is riddled with anti-governmental attitudes and is hostile to political leadership . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Whereas Cipriani , in all his dealings , retained a high degree of honour , albeit confused , those that superseded him after 1938 , heralded in a period that is recognised by some as the nadir of political life in Trinidad . |
| 5 | Fabliau(s) is in fact the form this word took in the dialect of the north-eastern corner of France in the twelfth to fourteenth century ( the final -s is a nominative singular case marker that is lost during this period ) . |
| 6 | Her first thought was to pick a young teenager 's romance of the kind that is written for fifteen-year-old schoolgirls , but for some reason she found herself instinctively walking past that particular shelf . |
| 7 | You have got to accustom yourself to the book that is written from several different viewpoints . |
| 8 | Fresh and distinctive , the short stories in this remarkable collection portray a view of society that is infused with wry fun and a sharp but sympathetic wisdom , as Maeve Kelly captures the hopes , passions and despairs of women struggling with the constraints of everyday life . |
| 9 | To establish the merit of project proposals without overlooking any significant factor , it is highly desirable to have a selection system that is applied to all cases . |
| 10 | To establish the merit of project proposals without overlooking any significant factor , it is highly desirable to have a selection system that is applied to all cases . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , the sheer quantity of nitrate fertilizer that is applied to much farmland — and it has increased five times since the 1930s — ; creates problems from the surface run-off of rainwater which finds its way into drainage channels and ditches and eventually into streams and rivers . |
| 12 | They had lived in Holland for twenty years and had been much impressed by Dutch conversions of barns into dwellings which tend to be more simple , ‘ scrubbed ’ and ‘ puritanical ’ than the often over-elaborate treatment that is applied to British projects . |
| 13 | It implies that capacity for personal affective response that is dismissed by those who wish to transform literature into a purely cognitive discourse . |
| 14 | This is a very brief view of the type of assessment that is made during constitutional treatment . |
| 15 | One of the major criticisms that is made of senior management is its unwillingness to let go of the reins of an organisation , to delegate routine tasks and to concentrate upon the longer term . |
| 16 | The raw material , Fulsarium graminearium , is a tiny plant that is grown in vast vats , with glucose , oxygen and nitrogen providing the nutrition . |
| 17 | In exactly the same way , too many people are looking into the mind of the homosexual rather than considering the repugnance that is caused to millions of decent people all over the country … . |
| 18 | Determinism , in the more general positivist sense , means that crime is seen as behaviour that is caused by biological , psychological or social factors , depending on the academic origins of the criminologist concerned . |
| 19 | The misery that is caused by these lines will at last be wiped out . ’ |
| 20 | Alongside this there may be another internal voice that is piling on further self-criticism for being so feeble , for having lost touch with friends , for being an outcast , or whatever . |
| 21 | Bernard Williams defines the respect that is owed to all persons as an effort of understanding , ‘ to see the world from his point of view ’ . |
| 22 | Ideology , or the superstructural levels , in Althusser 's rendering of the dialectic remains a constitutive part of a process that is characterized by unequal power and domination . |
| 23 | If this seems an abstruse form of cultivation it is not one that is limited to modern agriculture , but can be found in many suburban gardens where , acre for acre , the concentrations of both fertilizer and pesticide are higher than on the average arable farm . |
| 24 | WORDS and pictures can not describe the disaster that is unfolding in former Yugoslavia . |
| 25 | We will only pay these legal fees if they arise from an accident that is covered under this policy . |
| 26 | We will only pay these legal fees if they arise from an accident that is covered under this policy . |
| 27 | We will only pay these legal fees if they arise from an accident that is covered under this policy . |
| 28 | We will only pay these legal fees if they arise from an accident that is covered under this policy . |
| 29 | This implies that the antibody is recognising an epitope that is cleaved by one of the digestive enzymes pepsin or trypsin . |
| 30 | ( 2 ) The united Germany and the Republic of Poland shall confirm the existing border between them in a treaty that is binding under international law . |