The phrase "a reception that is" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing the nature or characteristics of a reception, such as an event or gathering.
Example: "We are planning a reception that is both elegant and welcoming for our guests."
Alternatives: "a reception which is" or "a reception that will be".
Her beseeching blue-eyed gaze supposes a reception that is essentially kind and responsive.
There were tears and standing ovations, a reception that is likely to continue as the film makes its way into theaters.
This weekend BHQFU hosts Open Studios to show off the work of their artists, kicking off with a reception that is open to the public on Friday, July 17 from 6 9PM, and studio visits through the following Saturday and Sunday from 12 6PM.
He received a reception that was warm but certainly not ecstatic.
They arrived to a reception that was unstintingly generous, if not without a touch of small-town chauvinism.
DRIVING down a muddy back road with a photographer a bit later, I got a reception that wasn't quite as friendly.
Just weeks after the shooting in Tucson that claimed six lives and left Representative Gabrielle Giffords, Democrat of Arizona, gravely injured, Mr. Obama received a reception that was muted and civil.
At a reception that was held after the demonstrations, a salesman from Avante showed a touch-screen model, the VOTE-TRAKKER EVC308-FF, to Mary Kain, a development officer at the Staten Island Zoo.
Continuing his tour of American backyards, Mr. Obama received a reception that was polite and friendly, but also pointed, when he visited Sandy Clubb, the athletic director at Drake University, and her husband, Jeff, a middle school social studies teacher, in the upscale, leafy Beaverdale neighborhood here.
Then, after two incompletions, Ballard went down the seam and leapt above Tracy White to pull in a reception that was reminiscent of Tyree's Super Bowl catch in which he held the ball to his helmet as he was pulled to the ground.
The president's uncle, and the oldest member of the Bush family, Prescott Sheldon Bush, 81, of Greenwich, officially unveiled Robert A. Anderson's 50 inch by 60 inch oil painting during a reception that was attended by the artist and his family, as well as some 100 members of the 106-year-old club.
