Example sentences of "[Wh det] [adj] [verb] [be] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What that means is that NHS hospitals will be resourced according to the number of patients they treat . |
| 2 | Typically in the open ocean situation sea water contains thirty fives parts per thousand of salt , usually expressed as that symbol , sometimes you 'll see it written as parts per thousand P P T and what that means is that there are thirty five grams of salt per kilogram of water and that 's usually given the symbol S and is referred to as the salinity . |
| 3 | Now what that means is that you 've admitted the offence which you were arrested for which is er |
| 4 | What that means is that if you have a spontaneous abortion , you 're much more likely to abort a male than you are to abort a female . |
| 5 | Now and that 's for my benefit alone okay , what that means is that I 'll see each and every one of you in a , a role play so the first person in each role play will be Robert , Barry and Gareth , followed by Gill , , followed by Bill , Roger and Vincent and Robert again you do not deviate from that order . |
| 6 | the first thing that we , we , we would respect is and suggest and this is a course which has been offered erm , erm , in order of other cases , er , we should ask that the er because of the adjournment necessary for investigation , the , the money will attract interest and we would ask for an order that the erm , the plaintiff is entitled to interest at the special account rate on any lump sum hereafter ordered to be paid , now what that means is that if at the end of the day the instruction say goes off and the conventional lump sum order is made , we are entitled to interest on the whole of that lump sum , if on the other hand a structured settlement is put into position and er part is either applied to the purchase of the annuities , in the commercial way to try and settle it or taken it back by the health authority , in consideration for self funding structured settlement , then we would only get the interest on the actual cash we have been kept |
| 7 | What that means is that when you 're facing up to foreign situations , you tend to pull together you tend not to divide you tend not to emphasise the differences between you . |
| 8 | What that means is that there 's a whole new way of thinking about what sorts of tasks can people actually use computers to do so the offices of the future may well have no typewriters , but just micro computers tied into an information system , and that presents , I think , great problems for people . |
| 9 | Now what that means is that we have what we call an agency budget . |
| 10 | However , what this assumes is that the police never make decisions to de-politicise crime , which they plainly do in their endeavour to argue that many assaults by whites upon black are not racist in their intent , merely matters of public order . |
| 11 | What this meant was that sitting MPs should no longer be reselected automatically by local parties just before a general election was held . |
| 12 | What this means is that you 're the centre of attention and you 're waited on hand and ( of course ) foot . |
| 13 | What this means is that only a relatively small proportion of the population is earning and has the burden of supporting a large number of old and young . |
| 14 | What this means is that the faster we go , the more the apparent wind direction swings forwards . |
| 15 | What this means is that the opportunity to make worthwhile teaching points , about the subject matter on display , will be missed . |
| 16 | What this means is that ships can now have some protection against guided bombs released from a great height . |
| 17 | What this means is that the output stage consists of two halves . |
| 18 | What this means is that overall economic policy should be dictated by utilitarian considerations , aiming to improve the general welfare . |
| 19 | What this means is that the appearance , in the nonperspectival sense , can be identified by the use of a hypothetical statement . |
| 20 | What this means is that the rule-based competence which the monitor offers to the BSL learner is the already established grammatical knowledge of English . |
| 21 | What this means is that if we want to make realistic comparisons between species we have to make allowance for differences in the sizes of the animals concerned . |
| 22 | What this means is that the taking of leisure is self-defeating ; the fact that one is one 's own boss adds to , rather than subtracts from , the psychological pressures to do housework . |
| 23 | Keeping to the domestic front for the moment , what this means is that the conclusions which women reach , no matter how carefully and intelligently they are worked out , can never have the status of decisions . |
| 24 | What this means is that the individual in public feels obliged to broadcast an unceasing stream of non-verbal signs , intended to inform others , whether they be acquaintances or more often otherwise , of the place which he or she expects to have in the undertakings which follow . |
| 25 | What this means is that B should have raised the substance of his Convention claim under any domestic procedure which was capable of giving him a remedy , including any avenues of appeal , unless , according to Commission practice , there were some reason for excusing him from doing so . |
| 26 | What this means is that there is no way that any hypothesis drawn from Marxist theory can be disproved by empirical investigation . |
| 27 | What this means is that telephones utilise variations in electrical current to mirror what is being fed into them , in this case the human voice . |
| 28 | In brief , what this means is that every individual comprising the population of interest should have an equal chance of being selected for the sample . |
| 29 | Thus while from the point of view of community members , situations may fall into the categories of " Patois " ( e.g. playground interactions with other black children ) or " non-Patois " ( e.g. talking to a teacher ) , what this means is that in a " Patois " situation , it is permitted to use Creole at certain times . |
| 30 | What this means is that the candidate receiving more votes than any other candidate is declared elected . |