Example sentences of "[vb -s] is that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the purposes of translation , what matters is that both types of analysis recognize the sequence as marked . |
| 2 | What happens is that two companies virtually control distribution — Menzies and W H Smith . |
| 3 | What Freud actually says in Totem and Taboo is the opposite of that , what he actually says is that these feelings are innate , and they are part of an evolutionary heritage . |
| 4 | What examination of the rhetoric of the National Front magazines shows is that this tradition is wider than the beliefs of the individual editors . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | What she means is that this instruction should be borne in mind if at any time it starts raining . |
| 8 | All it means is that some properties of the replicators should have an influence over their probability of being replicated . |
| 9 | What Derrida argues is that any discourse which conceives of itself as scientific is bound to be logocentric : it will assume that it is transparent to its object and that that object is a stable entity . |