Example sentences of "[vb -s] is the " in BNC.
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| 1 | All it covers is the basic treatment in line with the minimum requirement in the country where you are staying — and that can be very different from what you would expect from the NHS . |
| 2 | The monotony of the individual neurones is irrelevant ; what matters is the infinite variety of their combinations , of their patterns , which will become evident when we look at the nervous system at the right level . |
| 3 | What matters is the effect of basic instinct which Eliot had earlier presented as the result of actual murder in a simpler urban context when he described in ‘ Eeldrop and Appleplex ’ the living death experienced by a man who has murdered his mistress . |
| 4 | People do tend , I think rather superficially , to concentrate on figures and relationships between the figures , whereas what really matters is the concept behind them and I think a financier could be somebody who is awfully bad at arithmetic , but does understand the concepts . |
| 5 | What really matters is the ability to recognise when the cheese has been properly stored by the retailer and when it is being offered for sale in prime condition . |
| 6 | Rather , what matters is the certainty of supply schedules . |
| 7 | But I notice this : he exaggerates creation above redemption ; sin is treated as a rather tiresome preoccupation of the Church , and what matters is the sin and fallenness of mankind 's abuse of creation . |
| 8 | What matters is the making . |
| 9 | In the search for knowledge what matters is the truth that is knowledge . |
| 10 | To the over-sensitive , though , what matters is the cure , the meal and the money . |
| 11 | What matters is the heart and its secret whispers before God . |
| 12 | What matters is the way equipment interacts with you . |
| 13 | What matters is the British people , British jobs and the British future . |
| 14 | What matters is the welfare of our people and the future of Britain . |
| 15 | Our inclination is to say that language is not the primary thing , that we are analysing a phenomenon , and that what matters is the question , ‘ What sort of a process goes on in your mind when you know , remember , hope something ? ’ |
| 16 | Rather , what matters is the pattern of the diversity . |
| 17 | What matters is the basic principle behind the exercise . |
| 18 | What matters is the ultimate profit , and if it can be increased by employing some more salesmen so be it , even if the numbers go in the wrong way . |
| 19 | What matters is the contemporary nature of Saunders ' claims , not in abstraction but , because at a superficial level they , in common with similar work by Dahrendorf ( 1987 ) , Bauman ( 1987 ) , Pahl ( 1984 , 1985 ) and particularly Gorz ( 1982 ) , seem to make a lot of descriptive sense . |
| 20 | The attitude-holder , in expressing the attitude , may not actually be engaged in face-to-face debate , for what matters is the general context of controversy , not the specific interpersonal context . |
| 21 | ( In none of this do the geographical or military details matter , which is why the background has not here been explained : what matters is the constitutional issues raised . ) |
| 22 | What matters is the correlation between them , not how the correlation is produced . |
| 23 | In both cases what really matters is the same : that the sign he observes directly — the bees , Rabbit 's saying ‘ yes ’ — should be correlated with honey , so that the belief he infers from the sign will be true . |
| 24 | What matters is the status of the party as unassisted at the time when he incurred the costs in the proceedings which he seeks to recover . |
| 25 | What matters is the record of action which actually followed his visit to Klagenfurt . |
| 26 | What matters is the evidence , in many thousands of processes and objects , of constant human practice in this real dimension , necessarily overlapping and interacting with other kinds of practice but never simply reducible to them . |
| 27 | ‘ What matters is the needs which art answers , ’ Edward said . |
| 28 | What matters is the appraisal of the outcomes of their behaviour from the point of view of economic efficiency . |
| 29 | What matters is the moral standing of the man who holds the wires in his hands , like ten thousand million strings . |
| 30 | What matters is the quality of our music . |