Example sentences of "[Wh det] [verb] is [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Which suncream is the right one for you ? |
| 2 | If you fish with a friend , then begin in separate swims until you know which swim is the productive one . |
| 3 | Sounds complicated but much more reliable than trying to keep to a regular naming scheme that lets you know which copy is the oldest . |
| 4 | There is no really well-defined pattern , but the constellation is not hard to identify , because it lies more or less between Altair and Fomalhaut ; the line of three stars of which Altair is the central member points to it . |
| 5 | It adjoins Aquila , and may be found by sweeping away from the line of stars of which Altair is the central member . |
| 6 | The picture which emerges is a mixed one indeed : on the one hand , the creation of a committee structure which defies all the rules of good management and administration , and on the other , a number of actual or potential outcomes of considerable value . |
| 7 | The picture which emerges is a grim one for disabled people . |
| 8 | The conversation which follows is the last in the book , and the weakest , too , a stagey means of imparting some crucial news for Bellow to fulminate against all that is rotten and cynical in American youth . |
| 9 | What counts is the net surface-charge density inside our chosen volume and that has n't increased at all . |
| 10 | What counts is the increasing divergence between them ( and , for a Frenchman , France 's continued indecision about which system to pursue ) . |
| 11 | What matters is the moral standing of the man who holds the wires in his hands , like ten thousand million strings . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Indeed , the pervasive appeal of the term ‘ bottom line ’ ( profit after all deductions ) is such that it is often used as the ultimate test of success in any aspect of society ; in sport , how well the game is played is irrelevant , what matters is the final score — the bottom line is winning or losing . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Higher marginal tax rates will be reduced , though current envious comparisons with the US can be misleading , given that what matters is the effective rather than nominal rate before various allowances . |
| 17 | What matters is the basic principle behind the exercise . |
| 18 | ( 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 . ) |
| 19 | What matters is the British people , British jobs and the British future . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | There is no hierarchy of needs — what motivates is the individual perception of what is significant at a given moment . |
| 22 | What emerges is a cool , comprehensive picture of how the evil machine of apartheid routinely devours lives and sabotages all hope of peace and development . |
| 23 | What emerges is a staggering portrait of one Catholic bishop 's life . |
| 24 | What follows is a fantastic , heady cocktail of feminism , ’ bawdy ’ humour , song , dance and satire . |
| 25 | What follows is a personal observation based on visits in three regions of England to four fundholding and two non-fundholding practices and one poised to join the third wave . |
| 26 | What follows is a personal view , rather than official PRO policy , and is intended to stimulate discussion as to what might be the model legal and cultural infrastructure for such activities . |
| 27 | Instead , what follows is a brief catalogue of what remains embryonic or unrealized . |
| 28 | What follows is a short account of the legal procedure — |
| 29 | What follows is an edited version of some of that conversation : |
| 30 | So what follows is an extreme simplification of many complex matters , given as an introduction to a system which the student has largely to discover for himself . |