Example sentences of "[vb -s] is [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ADDS is also previewing a 3270/X programme that provides an X-Window migration path for IBM 3270 terminal users moving to NCR 's System 3000 Unix line . |
| 2 | What matters is simply the ranking of the options available . |
| 3 | What matters is simply a profession of faith in Jesus as a manifestation of God , and such a profession of faith is in itself sufficient to ensure salvation . |
| 4 | Well , in the last ten years , and this is only history , what really matters is tomorrow , Ferrari won one driver 's title and Williams and McLaren won the rest . |
| 5 | What matters is now . |
| 6 | what matters is once again spectacle , as in the earliest days of cinema . |
| 7 | Like power , money as it stands is neither a good nor a bad commodity . |
| 8 | But it is by no means true that an ad which everyone notices is necessarily good — it may be noticed for reasons which are totally irrelevant to the strategy . |
| 9 | The range of creatures it contains is far wider than that found in rocks of a similar age at any other site . |
| 10 | The list of observed bands ( Table 5.12 ) shows that all the IR bands observed coincide with Raman bands ( within 20 cm -1 , which is close enough considering that IR and Raman spectra are of different phases ) , and the number of Raman bands is indeed nine . |
| 11 | Perhaps EGF is stored in the endothelial cells of the normal mucosa and when inflamation develops is rapidly utilised to stimulate cell proliferation because EGF is cruicial for the change from quiescent cells to the S phase of the proliferative cycle . |
| 12 | The pond in which the tadpole develops is only temporary , so it must complete its metamorphosis into a toad as quickly as possible . |
| 13 | As for the author 's intentions , what counts is only whether or not he has succeeded in writing poetry , and that too can be discerned by reference to the text alone . |
| 14 | County planning officer , Dave Bown , explained in a report to councillors that supplies of construction material to the Aberystwyth area come from Hendre Quarry , Ystrad Meurig and Glan Rhyd Ty Noeth , near Capel Bangor , but Glan Rhyd Ty Noeth is almost exhausted . |
| 15 | First , there is his attitude towards the texts he is writing about : because writing can never be governed by the intention and avowed aims of its authors , Derrida finds himself saying of Rousseau , for example , that what he actually writes is quite different from what he means to say : that he is bound , as we all are , to say ‘ more , less or something quite other than what he would mean/would like to say [ voudrait dire ] ’ ( 1976 : 158 ] . |
| 16 | What Breuer writes is usually clearly argued and factually correct , but he does not refrain from making his own contribution to the field . |
| 17 | And yet what Derrida writes is as much art as philosophy ; Megill compares his glas to Finnegans Wake . |
| 18 | Sir Denys is visibly gloomy |
| 19 | Where Jenny lives is very much the smart side of town and the flat is gorgeous . |
| 20 | But another thing is you see where Sandra lives , you saying that where she lives is apparently erm P C , now I do n't know him , but she does he lives up the same road and when people park did n't she tell you this when we were coming down ? |
| 21 | G i2 and G i3 are highly abundant in granulocyte membranes and much of the cellular βγ subunits is probably complexed to α i2 and α i3 . |
| 22 | This blood and tissue loss is called menstruation and the day that this menstrual flow starts is traditionally the first day of the menstrual cycle . |
| 23 | And they , it was a bit frightening because we were in a group of seventeen and see what I mean when , I mean how it starts is like if were starting with me , I have to say I 'm Tony , right , and then you would say I 'm Jackie and this is Tony and then Christine would say I 'm Christine this is Jackie , this is Tony , I was at the end of a group of seventeen and I had heard it sort of , you hear it , it builds up round the room |
| 24 | The London based Construction Industry Research and Information Association ( CIRIA ) , in a recent report on the French construction market , points out not only that the number of British housing starts is only 60 per cent of the French level , but also that ‘ individuals are clients for 50 per cent of dwellings and construction companies for 25 per cent . ’ |
| 25 | As mentioned earlier , making deeper and deeper beach starts is often a successful way of tackling the water start , provided you have a gently shelving beach . |
| 26 | Getting what one wants is increasingly divorced from doing as one likes . " |
| 27 | All it wants is just a slight tap with a hammer . |
| 28 | There are other places she could go to , of course , but so many of them would be clubs in which she would be expected to communicate and contribute at a time when all she wants is occasionally simply to be ‘ with ’ people and to be able to depart when she wishes without giving offence or disturbing the gathering . |
| 29 | In most cases the tenant will only close the premises if the tenant 's business is unprofitable , and therefore the last thing the tenant wants is then to have to reimburse the landlord for the landlord 's loss of rating relief . |
| 30 | INTO Northern Secretary Frank Bunting said : ‘ The evidence the Minister wants is now overwhelming and he should stop procrastinating . |