Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pers pn] [verb] be that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In such a circumstance a quantity rule has to be adopted in order to determine what actual output will be , and the one which we adopted was that actual output would equal the level of demand , thus obliging firms to produce and sell more than they initially considered optimal at the price set . |
| 2 | The major premise from which we start is that prenominal attribution and postnominal attribution involve , respectively , qualification and assignment . |
| 3 | What we know is that simple interventions in a single area — like a school health education programme — are unlikely to work on their own . |
| 4 | Instead , what we find is that natural selection exerts a braking effect on evolution . |
| 5 | Now , my theory that I was proposing last week about preferential parental investment in sexy sons or little boys who showed phallic behaviour , is a consequence of the Trivers Willard principle , because basically what it says is that little boys who advertised , as it were , in their childhood , evidence of their own adult reproductive success by precocious sexuality towards the women of the family and aggression towards the males , might be rewarded by preferential parental investment , a Trivers Willard effect in other words , and if , when they grew up , those oedipal sexy sons were in fact more reproductively successful , then the result would be a kind of self-perpetuating cycle of parental investment in oedipal sons who then grew up to be more reproductively successful than non-oedipal sons and , and so on . |
| 6 | And then he got on to explain what the items were , seventy five percent of the items went next day , and ninety thousand went , I 'm sorry , and er , and twenty five percent went two day , three day , and if you divide one into the other , what it means is that two point one consignments two me , sorry , two point one items per consignment went Express , and six items per consignment , general . |
| 7 | Well , in terms of survival of the fittest what it means is that natural selection does n't select for fitness because if it does , what is it doing ? |