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

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1 which I think is that way
2 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 .
3 The major premise from which we start is that prenominal attribution and postnominal attribution involve , respectively , qualification and assignment .
4 The context in which they arose was that of the capitalist world economy and imperialism ; hence there has also been , in many of these movements a substantial socialist influence , and in some countries , notably in China , nationalist movements have culminated in a social revolution .
5 The air which he breathed was that of the famous treatise on the resting places of the old English saints , and of the days when , in Eadmer 's words , ‘ it was the custom of the English to prefer the patronage of the saints to every worldly aid ’ .
6 Such sharing of the superego constitutes what we call religion ; and the particular religious form which he assumed was that of the animal totem , a choice appropriate in the new hunting culture and a consequence of the fact that the primal father had been the last of the truly animal hominids .
7 Later , however , Thomas Cromwell was sympathetic to the Reformers ; indeed the policy which he pursued was that which Tyndale had advocated in The Obedience of a Christian Man — ‘ One King , one law in the realm : no class of men exempt from the temporal sword ’ .
8 Yes now what I meant was that , that erm in a group like this , the the th th the leader or the leadership role may be relatively minimal and the individualism of the members may be relevant , but I hope it was cos I I think it 's a mistake for class in groups and that so one would hope in this kind of group , the individual variation would be so important that these kind of group phenomena that Freud is talking about in this book but clearly in other groups they 're they 're more important , partly because you can never organize a group by kind of having a meeting with everybody .
9 But I I do n't erm from the nature of Mr Justice in the Midland Bank that there 's a a well known but w what I say is that in this case er what your Lordship will be dealing with are essentially what are matters of practice for conveyancing solicitors when faced particularly with clients er making financial arrangements to enter into this and the duties of in that particular situation .
10 and what I found is that one .
11 I mean what er , what she put was that o okay was n't it ?
12 What you want is that sugar stuff what they 'll take back to nest .
13 Oh no no no no but if the situation is such that er you what you say is that is the s the six months has now started has it ?
14 Is that what you wanted was that the right card to put down ?
15 What we know is that simple interventions in a single area — like a school health education programme — are unlikely to work on their own .
16 What we feel is that by going at it like a bull in a china shop , we all sorts of accusations of widespread privatisation has actually backfired .
17 Instead , what we find is that natural selection exerts a braking effect on evolution .
18 What we find is that sometimes people have taken out policies some years ago and they 've actually forgotten what their money 's doing for them so erm that 's another side of it and also to introduce our new financial planning service erm and in doing so we may be able to highlight areas in which we could save you money er for example erm saving you money on tax or increasing your income either now or some time in the future .
19 What they forget is that rationality is opposed to absurdity , not to mystery .
20 What he says is that erm you know when he was writing of six hundred and fifty eight seats in parliament , I do n't know how many there are now , but he says if we allowed for people to be paid , then we have as it were six hundred and fifty eight prizes to people 's six hundred and fifty eight jobs for people and he says and this is rather astonishing to hear , to read this is that it will attract adventurism of low class to er parliament if we pay members of parliament .
21 What he meant was that , with the terms of trade running strongly in Britain 's favour and with a substantial underuse of resources , the economy was too much directed towards the depressed export trades — coal , steel , shipbuilding and cotton — and not enough towards newer industries which would mainly supply an enlarged home market .
22 I 've asked him about that and what he said is that er , he was saving up and he was going tax the vehicle as soon he was able to do so but he did n't have the funds and er , to do so at , at that time .
23 He told us … well , what he said was that phetam makes the Ardakkeans super-human . ’
24 What it meant was that matter could curve a region in on itself so much that it would effectively cut itself off from the rest of the universe .
25 a paragraph at the end of one of the chapters and , I ca n't remember the exact words but in , what it meant was that for the parents who do restrain the children from what they watch
26 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 .
27 Well Chairman I 'm grateful for that , that information , what it says is that er , everybody else is just as confused as I am .
28 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 ?
29 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 .
30 What it implied was that BA has not exactly been covering itself with glory in its propaganda war with Virgin — and would do well to change tactics .
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