Example sentences of "[vb -s] [is] that [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What matters is that a limitation has been set ; and now if a child brings out a gun , a knife , a rope ladder or even a box of matches you can check with the list and then either stay in role and say " You may have meant to bring that rope ladder , but it 's not here " , or come out of role and discuss the agreed rules of the drama , one of which is perhaps that in this drama there is no recourse to magic . |
| 2 | Under the " once-and-for-all " test what matters is that the income can be used to benefit the individual in question in the year of assessment in which it arises , and it does not matter if it is not possible so to apply that income in a subsequent year of assessment . |
| 3 | What matters is that the doctors should consider whether at that time he had a capacity which was commensurate with the gravity of the decision which he purported to make . |
| 4 | What matters is that the authorities exercise their responsibility for checking and double checking what happens on the ground . |
| 5 | What Willis emphasises is that the culture of the shop floor is bounded and has a special sense of completeness about it . |
| 6 | What line B specifies is that the reckoning is God 's : the indicates " the efficient cause ( or personal agent ) " with the passive . |
| 7 | What happens is that a matter particle , such as an electron or a quark , emits a force-carrying particle . |
| 8 | Well I get involved in it in so many different ways erm this is a difficult one , but one of the things that happens is that a number of teachers , both from the area and elsewhere , erm do advanced courses at the university and as part of these courses we have a unit on evaluation , and for this they will choose some area of their school work which they and their colleagues — and I emphasise that this is something they do have to involve their colleagues back at school in very much — erm feel it would be useful to look at and then they try and discuss with their colleagues what aspects of it are important and significant and what ought to be seen , and they bring this discussion back and we all discuss together there 'll be different teachers working on different problems the different ways in which they could approach this problem and how they might most usefully be able to do it and at the end of the exercise they will have found out quite a lot about this particular area of teaching and very often we find that the people they 've consulted have themselves got quite interested in it and begun to realize that it 's not being done in a way that 's there to threaten them , they 're not sending a report to the headmaster or the Chief Education Officer or anything like that — it 's for the benefit of the people doing the work themselves . |
| 9 | What happens is that the council is Liberal Democrat controlled and the area council is Labour controlled and these two fight and that 's allowed the third obnoxious force to creep through so it 's not just Conservative cabinet government that is the problem . |
| 10 | What happens is that the head of the humerus levers through the already weakened shoulder muscle , causing a severe tissue insult and great pain . |
| 11 | As soon as there is any prospect of allowing planning permission , all that usually happens is that the price of the house is bid up far beyond what it is worth , given the large sums that need to be spent on it . |
| 12 | What in effect happens is that the system stabilizes in such a way that the slider of potentiometer VR1 is maintained at a constant level . |
| 13 | All that happens is that the animal waits until the treated garments are discarded and then homes in on some other , more suitable surface . |
| 14 | Now if we can sort of simplify the whole thing forget about the continents and that sort of thing what happens is that the sea water is attracted , obviously not this much , but the sea water is attracted towards The sea is attracted by the moon and you end up if you like with this bulge in the sea Now what is not so easy to understand |
| 15 | Well in both our our er incidences what happens is that the actuary recommends what erm should happen . |
| 16 | We know however that what actually happens is that the anxiety only ever reaches a certain level and then levels off , forming a plateau . |
| 17 | What happens is that the drug kills off a lot of the resident Candida , the yeast cells burst open , and some of the cell contents are absorbed into the bloodstream , producing an exaggerated version of the usual symptoms . |
| 18 | What happens is that the mike hears the sound going into it , being amplified by the system and then coming out louder behind it again . |
| 19 | What usually happens is that the model runs out of steam during the half roll , and tumbles backwards . |
| 20 | When hospitals increase throughput all that happens is that the purchaser runs out of money before the end of the year . |
| 21 | There is no increase in lending by the trust to ultimate users ; all that happens is that the market price of the trust 's shares rises . |
| 22 | What actually happens is that the fish eat the tiny algae spores on the margins of the leaves . |
| 23 | No because section fifty four A and all section fifty four A says is that a decision should be made on a planning application , in accordance with the development plan . |
| 24 | True , the occurrence of the phrase about ‘ harbours and agora ’ is striking , but what Plato says is that the murderers should not be allowed to pollute the temples or the agora or harbours , etc . |
| 25 | However , what this assumes is that the police never make decisions to de-politicise crime , which they plainly do in their endeavour to argue that many assaults by whites upon black are not racist in their intent , merely matters of public order . |
| 26 | For what the sonnet also reveals is that the truth of verse is not only ornamental addition , it is all there is . |
| 27 | So what this example shows is that a sentence which seems to contain one assertion can turn out to contain many different assertions , some in the form of presuppositions . |
| 28 | What he states is that the dame general principles govern their development , although conditions were so different that these principles had considerably different effects in the different cases . |
| 29 | What the experienced communicator recognises is that the effectiveness of what is said is as dependent upon how it is said and perceptions and impressions others have of the person presenting the argument as it is upon the quality of argument itself . |
| 30 | What Einstein requires is that no messages should be transmitted which would , for example , permit clocks at A and B to be synchronised simultaneously . |