Example sentences of "what matters [be] the " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 Rather , what matters is the certainty of supply schedules .
4 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 .
5 What matters is the making .
6 In the search for knowledge what matters is the truth that is knowledge .
7 To the over-sensitive , though , what matters is the cure , the meal and the money .
8 What matters is the heart and its secret whispers before God .
9 What matters is the way equipment interacts with you .
10 What matters is the British people , British jobs and the British future .
11 What matters is the welfare of our people and the future of Britain .
12 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 ? ’
13 Rather , what matters is the pattern of the diversity .
14 What matters is the basic principle behind the exercise .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 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 .
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 correlation between them , not how the correlation is produced .
20 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 .
21 What matters is the record of action which actually followed his visit to Klagenfurt .
22 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 .
23 What matters is the needs which art answers , ’ Edward said .
24 What matters is the appraisal of the outcomes of their behaviour from the point of view of economic efficiency .
25 What matters is the moral standing of the man who holds the wires in his hands , like ten thousand million strings .
26 What matters is the quality of our music .
27 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 .
28 What matters is the role Shakespeare plays in it , a role at once central and expendable — and , in some obscure way , not just expendable but exchangeable for what really matters : the writing that more directly serves power [ Greenblatt having pointed out how Stanley 's notebook proved invaluable in establishing the Belgian Congo ] .
29 In other words , what matters is the way in which funds are invested .
30 From this point of view , the factors which influence an individual 's voting choice are less relevant : what matters is the choice and its distribution .
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