Example sentences of "[verb] is [pron] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What matters is what happens when the individual , who incorporates his past , incorporates and transforms the divisions which are part of that past . |
| 2 | Dallas coach Jimmy Johnson , who had the consolation of seeing division rivals Philadelphia and Washington lose , said : ‘ Our team learned that it does n't matter who you think is the best team , what matters is who plays hardest . ’ |
| 3 | But in monumental sculpture , as in gatherings of important people in real life , what matters is who stands next to whom , and what is said of them . |
| 4 | You can imagine this has meant him working very long hours , one of the other problems he has is he suffers from diabetes . |
| 5 | The second thing that I would like to know is what happens if I put larger tyres on my vehicle , it has the standard crossply 's at the moment . |
| 6 | I feel a cup win this season but what I , d like to know is what does anybody think the score will be in our first game . |
| 7 | One important issue we have not considered is what happens to the individual once he or she is labelled as criminal . |
| 8 | it needs is it needs us to have an input with their project manager to evaluate them . |
| 9 | If we look at a relationship or any type of communication as a situation where somebody 's going to win and somebody 's going to lose there 's not gon na be much chance of two people working together on that so what happens is somebody 's got to lose . |
| 10 | Well if you sort of leave him out of a conversation , he goes a bit funny , he storms off , I think I had noticed a couple of times that he has , and you see what happens is he sits there |
| 11 | We may note that although Moore thinks that in some sense what one should do is what looks most likely to be one 's duty in the sense of that which will produce the best consequences , it is unclear what meaning he can ascribe to this ‘ should ’ . |
| 12 | Whatever the entry says is what lies in store for the opener . |
| 13 | Erm , but in fact , she 's she 's missed the third sentence and , where she said that the rose has withstood many sicknesses and evils , erm , whereas in fact , what it says is it withstands and succours against sicknesses and evils , which is a totally different element . |
| 14 | But fundamentally what succeeds is what keeps people listening or watching and so forth , and I 'm suggesting that that 's something to do , it , it 's something to do with being interesting and relevant and catching the imagination of that particular audience group . |
| 15 | ‘ The only thing you 've got is what 's been given to you . ’ |
| 16 | Recall is what fails to happen when you are stumped by an examination question . |
| 17 | Notice that the formula we have used is which reduces |
| 18 | So far all we know is what has appeared in the newspapers , that you have , shall we say , brought into life a baby — a human baby just like any one of the infants sleeping in their mothers ' arms all over the world — in a way that is to say the least unusual . |
| 19 | All I know is he 's got a good |
| 20 | And I think I think the reconciliation what he 's actually saying is he has n't got time to recheck those reconciliations before this weekend 's deadline that 's what it appears to be . |
| 21 | Yeah but what they 're saying is it 's got ta be in the night before so that when they come in that next morning |
| 22 | This kind of overlayering is what produces the typical symptoms of bureaucracy in its worst form — too much passing problems up and down the system , bypassing , poor task setting , frustrated subordinates , anxious managers , wholly inadequate performance appraisals , ‘ personality problems ’ everywhere , and so forth . |
| 23 | What you do have to understand is what motivates a customer to buy a small green apple as opposed to a large red one . |
| 24 | What we are asking is what determines the amount of money people want to hold , whether in cash or in some form of account . |
| 25 | It 's also given us the new agreement on working time which our own government have tried to work against consistently for the last two years , they now say they 'll challenge it in Europe 's Court of Justice , well what they seem to forget is it 's got ta come back to Parliament for a second reading yet and they 've created such ill feeling in the Parliament and among the Commission , that it 's likely to be strengthened , we 're gon na end up with a strengthened agreement on working time by the autumn of this year . |
| 26 | This , it seems is what has happened in the X Window graphical user interface builder market , and VI Corp ( Europe ) , based in Wokingham , Berkshire has appreciated that its DataViews product may be too comprehensive for a lot of potential customers and is responding by introducing entry-level graphical user interface development tools . |
| 27 | The quality of education rather than the amount spent is what counts . |
| 28 | Yes yes but what I meant is it does n't stop us being |
| 29 | Nicklaus may have a better record of second and third places , but winning is what matters ! |
| 30 | Usually what 's happened is somebody 's been doing the cooking , dropped the pot on the floor , and all the pieces have been thrown away . |