Example sentences of "that is [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the same time as this was happening , that is to say between the late to midseventies , the Government announced its ‘ fight against inflation ’ with all its consequences for local government spending . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ) ? |
| 4 | ‘ Oh , yes : two sources actually ; a dry extract of nux vomica — that is to say of the ground-up seeds of the plant ; this contains about five per cent strychnine ; and a preparation known as liquor strychnine hydrochloride which contains about one per cent of the hydrochloride . ’ |
| 5 | They beat Middlesbrough three two er three one rather , three one on their own ground in the first round er of the first leg that is to say of the er four matches in this particular round of the competition . |
| 6 | In these circumstances I think that Darwin can rest quietly in his grave , that is to say of the acidulous palaeontologists have n't already been trying to dig him up to prove something . |
| 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 | That is to say upon the documented and officially described features of the organisation . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 12 | Everywhere and inevitably the administrative process is also part of the political process ; administration is always political as well as executive , at least at the levels where policy-making is relevant , that is to say in the upper layers of administrative life … |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | IBM , Motorola and Apple last week formally dedicated Somerset , the new facility in Austin , Texas that is to serve as the focal point of their PowerPC design and development efforts . |
| 16 | As Gabriel Josipovici has said , ‘ To imagine , like the traditional novelist , that one 's work is an image of the real world , to imagine that one can communicate directly to the reader what it is that one uniquely feels , that is to fall into the real solipsism , which is , to paraphrase Kierkegaard on despair , not to know that one is in a state of solipsism ’ ( The World and the Book ) . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | That is just so shit but a lot of that is to do with the fa is A the whole of Aston disaffiliated from the Guild , from the N U S ? |