Example sentences of "[Wh det] [verb] be that " in BNC.

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1 If you 've had office copy entries , the date from which to search is that given at the foot of each page , when the office copy entries were issued ; your search will then reveal any entries that may have been made since that date .
2 But this good housekeeping has been swept aside by the latest wave of IRA terrorism aimed at commercial targets on the mainland , one of the repercussions of which has been that , from 1 January this year , landlords and/or tenants have been required to take out a separate insurance policy to cover their buildings against terrorist damage .
3 The only text of the whole legend which exists is that written by the Greek author Plutarch in the first century AD , De Iside et Osiride .
4 For what it is worth , the general conclusion which emerged was that overseas investment had a small positive effect on exports .
5 The question which remains is that of minimum sample size and , in general , other researchers have tended to avoid applying formulae to texts of less than 150 words in length .
6 For present purposes what matters is that legislation made in pursuance of powers delegated to Ministers of the Crown is a form of ‘ statutory instrument ’ .
7 What matters is that black kids believe them to operate systematically and continuously .
8 What matters is that art — however you choose to define it — is still considered something worth bothering about . ’
9 For our purposes what matters is that RNA , or something like it , was around for a long time before it became self-replicating .
10 What matters is that economic advances in some regions offset to a degree the general pressure on real wages of the rising population .
11 Basically what happens is that lava and other material is ejected from a hole in the ground , or crater , which is fed by a single pipe-like supply channel extending deep down below ground .
12 What happens is that possession is changing hands more often .
13 Well you see what happens is that , erm you , you may have a preference but you learn that you 've got to use this other behaviour
14 Er , yes , what happens is that venture capital , you 'll see that
15 With Eärendil , what happened is that Tolkien was initially struck by several lines from an Old English poem in the Exeter Book , now known as Christ I or The Advent Lyrics :
16 As far as they were concerned , what happened was that wage bargaining was no longer restrained by the social and political forces that hitherto limited rises to figures that would not disrupt the economy .
17 anyway , it , it , what happened was that , you see the Irish it was a funny set-up because the Irish people were responsible for the erection of the , and the supply of everything , well they 've gone out of
18 It was of little concern to Dan that much of the weathering may have been caused by industrial pollution — what mattered was that science had found an answer .
19 By what means is that acceptance secured ?
20 If we claim , as Regan does , that animals enjoy a whole range of cognitive abilities in the same sense in which we ascribe these to human beings , then what follows is that ‘ human and animal welfare do not differ in kind ’ ( 1983 : 116 ) .
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