Example sentences of "[Wh det] it [verb] be that " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Well Chairman I 'm grateful for that , that information , what it says is that er , everybody else is just as confused as I am . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 8 | But it is a sign nonetheless , and what it signifies is that Eeyore believes he 's out of thistles : simply because he only sighs ( when the subject 's raised ) when he does believe that . |