Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] be [that] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What she means is that this instruction should be borne in mind if at any time it starts raining . |
| 2 | In many contexts the impression one gets is that this happening is not something the speaker would have expected , but all such uses express a critical judgement on the person represented as the infinitive 's support having gone ahead and done something when , in the speaker 's opinion , he should not have . |
| 3 | A universal set of features is an attractive idea , but the price one pays is that each feature has to do many jobs , and the meaning associated with it gets spread thinner and thinner , like a small amount of butter on a large amount of bread . |
| 4 | All it means is that some properties of the replicators should have an influence over their probability of being replicated . |
| 5 | For the purposes of translation , what matters is that both types of analysis recognize the sequence as marked . |