Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [vb -s] [is] that " in BNC.
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1 | All that happens is that the animal waits until the treated garments are discarded and then homes in on some other , more suitable surface . |
2 | When hospitals increase throughput all that happens is that the purchaser runs out of money before the end of the year . |
3 | There is no increase in lending by the trust to ultimate users ; all that happens is that the market price of the trust 's shares rises . |
4 | All that happens is that you keep bouncing off it , and in the end you just get hurt ! ’ |
5 | so so you , you 've got a seal because otherwise all that happens is that er er you put the cement onto the , every time the , the water gets down the back of the cement , down the wall |
6 | All that says is that this particular product line is not following a smooth transition from youth to middle age and then old age , but that it has managed to find some rejuvenation late in life . |
7 | I was referred to R.S.C. , Ord. 55 , r. 3 which refers to the appeal being by way of rehearing , but that of course is the same phrase as is used in R.S.C. , Ord. 59 which states that appeals to the Court of Appeal are by way of rehearing and , to put it shortly , without quoting from the note to that rule , it is plain that all that means is that the Court of Appeal has a wide ranging power to consider and deal with the way in which the court below came to its decision but it is not empowered to hear evidence , except in certain exceptional circumstances : see , too , Rayden and Jackson on Divorce and Family Matters , 16th ed. ( 1991 ) , p. 1388 , para. 49.2 . |
8 | All that means is that he puts the letters into a plastic bag so they wo n't get eaten by beetles or woodworm or whatever . |
9 | ‘ But all that means is that I know damn well what not to do . |
10 | ‘ All that means is that he 's your latest disciple . ’ |
11 | Well all that means is that you just have n't got on with him so far , or you have n't quite found the right way to get on with that person yet . |
12 | All that means is that the original form was present in the rest of the Rift Valley during this period , never went extinct , and has now come into the lake again and has either made extinct , or in some other way swamped out the local form . |
13 | All this proves is that the Chancellor is human like the rest of us . |
14 | Although the constitution of the Confederation contains detailed regulations on the powers of the federal government and on the content of federal policy , all this means is that whenever a centralising measure is proposed , they amend the constitution . |
15 | What all this means is that if non-Tories get the bit between their teeth , they have a chance . |
16 | What all this means is that going through a black hole is unlikely to prove a popular and reliable method of space travel . |
17 | All this means is that they have built-in microprocessors which convert the characters and instructions sent from the computer into a series of co-ordinates which the plotter then draws . |
18 | What all this means is that in common with all other performance figures Whetstone and Dhrystone should be regarded as performance indicators rather than as absolute measurements . |
19 | What all this shows is that a distinctively structuralist kind of criticism is possible , and moreover , that it is more than the simple application and refinement of the tools of poetics . |
20 | What all this suggests is that people themselves may anticipate that a particular type of credit would be difficult for them to arrange , and therefore simply do not apply for it . |
21 | What all this indicates is that creatures — human or otherwise — are aware , are conscious , of danger to life and limb . |