Example sentences of "that is [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There they slew many of the Welsh ; and some in flight they drove into the wood that is called Andred Sley . |
| 2 | If the church that is teaching these standards is declining in public standing , then it is not surprising that there is a moral decline . ’ |
| 3 | That is certainly part of the money that is made available as a result of the far-sighted decision of my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister , when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer . |
| 4 | This does not mean that that intelligibility can be wholly captured in the formulations or in the mind of the theologian ; it does , however , mean that the divine intelligibility comes across to us , that God gives himself to be known and understood , and that the understanding that is made possible in theology is and is intended to be a genuine understanding and an authentic contact with the intelligibility of God . |
| 5 | The one dissenting voice that is made explicit to us is the Reeve 's : As has been noted , the Reeve 's Tale is often read as a much darker piece than the Miller 's Tale , and such readings are usually rooted in the reading of the Reeve 's character : a character who may be presented as corrupt , as well as frightening , in his General Prologue portrait . |
| 6 | The South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone treaty impliedly modifies the Vienna Convention provisions on treaties and third parties by establishing its own regime , a course that is made necessary by the framing of so many of the provisions of the Vienna Convention in terms applicable only to parties . |
| 7 | Pardo , the first civilian to hold the post for 35 years , stated that his appointment implied " a political handling and responsibility in the Defence Ministry " and was the result of " an important political change that is made evident in the new constitution " . |
| 8 | The 1972 reform strengthened the local professional bureaucracy and a bureaucracy that is made stronger is unlikely to resist any opportunity to grow . |
| 9 | A very good drawing package and one that is getting better all the time . |
| 10 | And the final point I wanted to make , although yes , we do welcome the special transitional grant second tranche of ten point eight million pounds , and it would be churlish not to , it is nevertheless a reduction on what the share of it was last year erm s of the national total so there is actually a reduction in the share that is getting this year , and alongside that , and of course hence the need for the recommendation in the budget , is that we 've actually lost very specifically one point eight five six million in the rollover grant from last year 's erm S T D tranche which we are specifically asking and very grateful to policy and resources for , hopefully , erm we 're asking and we 're hopeful they will underpin it and the Chairman is here and er er has nodded in that direction I think it 's fair to say . |
| 11 | Power is not something that is possessed such as blue eyes or red hair but manifests itself in terms of relations with others . |
| 12 | At separate talks with regional and district leaders , he will hear both sides of an argument that is causing deep divisions in the area . |
| 13 | I seek your guidance about a matter on today 's Order Paper that is causing some confusion . |
| 14 | If , for example , we find that the flowers in one corner of the garden do better than those in another corner , we make various comparisons between the two sites , and perhaps reach the conclusion that it is the lack of sunshine on the second site that is causing those flowers to do so badly . |
| 15 | He is the populariser and jack of all trades par excellence , intensely vulnerable to the scorn of the experts , and to people who would n't be seen dead reading the kind of book that is piled high in airport bookshops . |
| 16 | Baden is undergoing the same transformation that is revitalising southern France . |
| 17 | The first area , which will be no surprise to readers of The Bookseller , is the mind-boggling rate of change that is affecting all businesses at the present time . |
| 18 | Trainer Kim Bailey has managed to keep the strapping chaser away from the coughing that is affecting some of his stable companions . |
| 19 | Compare now the vastly more plausible second way in which the new composite sentence token may be of a type that is to acquire constant significance . |
| 20 | If we are ever to achieve a magnetically-confined plasma that is kept hot enough by thermonuclear reactions , then the confinement system must contain the electrically-charged alpha particles that are produced by the fusion of deuterium and tritium . |
| 21 | Budhoo asserts that the IMF and World Bank are key elements in an economic order that is deepening Third World poverty , the debt crisis , and a flight of capital from developing to developed countries which has soared in recent decades : in 1986 it amounted to well over $30 billion from the Caribbean and Latin America alone . |
| 22 | A church that is declared redundant enters the so-called ‘ Waiting period ’ . |
| 23 | In the majority of cases it is something that is given free of charge . |
| 24 | A circle may be considered as an ellipse that is seen full frontal , at right angles to the central visual ray of the eye , the CVR . |
| 25 | If we fail to help these children now they will not be able to contribute to the social economic wellbeing of the nation and may cost us in time more social and financial in , in , in the future , so it 's good investment , we 're friendly with them , we , we do sympathize them but it 's only common sense and good investment that we fully recompense that the to the level it should n't be er by the Home Office that is to replace fifteen percent o of seventy five , I think seventy of . |
| 26 | Even though it is the body that offends , it is none the less the mind that is found accountable . |
| 27 | Rufus , driving back from London with the hashish his dealer swore was genuine Indian charas and a package of best Colombian , picked her off the street — ‘ a piece of property that is found ownerless ’ . |
| 28 | In effect , each builder has a choice in the level of sophistication and extent of the information that is considered necessary to plan and control his business . |
| 29 | Saturday 's attendance against Partick Thistle was 15,536 , or just over half the crowd that is thought necessary at each home game to meet the club 's weekly costs and overdraft repayments . |
| 30 | It is probably the comparative smoothness , quietness and reponsiveness of the XUD that is overcoming British drivers ' prejudice against diesels . |