Example sentences of "[vb -s] [is] that [pron] [vb base] " in BNC.

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1 What matters is that they find the system simple to use and it certainly simplifies the practitioner 's lot .
2 What matters is that we realise that they are being friendly , so we shout back , ‘ It 's a lovely day today , is n't it ? ’ , or some such thing which they probably will not hear anyway , but the idea of friendliness has been transferred , and both people are happy , although the words were quite unintelligible .
3 What matters is that I need never question that there is a course which is objectively the best for me , and that when most aware I am nearest to it .
4 ‘ What matters is that I have signed a class international player who can score goals , a player who could become a giant at Old Trafford .
5 ‘ What counts is that I enjoy doing my job .
6 It can also mean " unrestrained " in the sense either of freedom to act or prodigality in giving : what Wilekin wants is that she give herself .
7 well what in actual fact happened , it 's not easy to get Terry Wogan at a moments notice to come and sit down , what in actual fact happens is that we draw up exactly what it is , that , that he would be saying and what the answer will be , he sees that and it 's totally approved , understandably he 's not gon na put his name to anything that he does n't believe is , is correct and that is how it 's done and
8 What so often happens is that we do not share feelings till finally the back filter gets overloaded and we literally blow a hole through it sending forth a gush of accusations which are totally counterproductive .
9 What erm happens is that we obtain the toxin from erm from the from a serpentarium .
10 What happens is that we begin well as Christians as we remember our past clearly .
11 All that happens is that you keep bouncing off it , and in the end you just get hurt ! ’
12 Well that 's fine then erm and what what what happens is that you do it through a bank but there are banks which I think Barclays and the Cooperative Bank and maybe one or two others do it .
13 ‘ What Clarissa means is that we have n't — mercifully — heard you for ages . ’
14 Now what that means is that we have what we call an agency budget .
15 What it means is that we reduce our service , and we take , we can , we can , we can expect the independent sector to fill that gap for us .
16 What that obviously means is that they 've drawn from a very , from a very wide area and therefore , they , they 've got the long , main industrial estate , which has thirteen factories , of which only three are occupied , and ten which are unoccupied , which are erm , in fact deteriorating .
17 All this means is that they have built-in microprocessors which convert the characters and instructions sent from the computer into a series of co-ordinates which the plotter then draws .
18 ‘ But all that means is that I know damn well what not to do .
19 What it means is that I have to be with him , except when I 'm working , since he ca n't always take time to be with me . ’
20 Now what that means is that you 've admitted the offence which you were arrested for which is er
21 This requires you to utilise the JMP-1 's output mapping , and all it means is that you tell the JMP-1 that every time it selects , say , patch 6 , information is sent to the effects processor to change its current patch to whatever patch you require .
22 If you get a correlation of about point seven , it means that you 're only accounting for forty nine percent , less than half , of the variants in the other var the other sets of scores Think about it , if it 's a positive , if you 've got a correlation coefficient of one , what it means is that you account for a hundred perc or or sorry , if you 're gon na make convert it to a percentage , you times it by a hundred , it 's the proportion there .
23 If we have only indicators what his methodological reasoning suggests is that we look for patterns among indicators which might suggest that we have found something of substance and significance .
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