Example sentences of "[vb -s] is " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | What matters is which strategy accumulated the most ‘ money ’ , summed over all its 15 pairings . |
| 33 | Without going into the details ( they are distractingly complicated ) what matters is that their genes do not leave the snail 's body in the snail 's sperms or eggs . |
| 34 | What matters is now . |
| 35 | What matters is what is thought of it , how it is seen , what is done to it , and what is expected from it . |
| 36 | What matters is simply the ranking of the options available . |
| 37 | An extra £5 million of sales will not make a big difference to Canon ; what matters is expanding and enhancing our name globally . ’ |
| 38 | The usual legal connotations of ownership are therefore irrelevant , but the possession of information , or the ability to control it , may nevertheless be of great significance ; in an entirely trivial sense the paper or computer tape on which information is recorded can be owned , and while this does not confer rights of ownership over the information itself , this distinction may seem empty if what really matters is control of access to and use of information . |
| 39 | ‘ What matters is we live in a building we love . ’ |
| 40 | For present purposes what matters is that legislation made in pursuance of powers delegated to Ministers of the Crown is a form of ‘ statutory instrument ’ . |
| 41 | To the over-sensitive , though , what matters is the cure , the meal and the money . |
| 42 | What matters is the heart and its secret whispers before God . |
| 43 | What matters is not the shop but the street outside . |
| 44 | What matters is the way equipment interacts with you . |
| 45 | What matters is assessing situations which are possible and those that , even with thought and adaptation , are not possible , and using the possibilities to full advantage . |
| 46 | ( Needless because , as we have argued here before , ownership is unimportant : what matters is control . |
| 47 | 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 . |
| 48 | What matters is that people should have somewhere to live . |
| 49 | ‘ 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 . |
| 50 | What matters is how you deal with such problems and athletics is tackling drugs head-on . ’ |
| 51 | What matters is this : there is a growing consensus that the current regime for financial services has failed , and its critics think that this failure is a failure of self-regulation . |
| 52 | Many people discount the value of statistical analysis by saying that what matters is quality , not quantity . |
| 53 | Instead , what matters is to answer the question : 'In whose interests are ‘ facts ' ’ reported or disputed ? ’ |
| 54 | 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 . ’ |
| 55 | What matters is the British people , British jobs and the British future . |
| 56 | What matters is the welfare of our people and the future of Britain . |
| 57 | What matters is conformity and not how this conformity is obtained . |
| 58 | Wittgenstein is here opposing our natural inclination when we start philosophising , which is to say that what matters is not the use of the expressions ‘ I know ’ , ‘ I remember ’ , ‘ I hope ’ , but a mental phenomenon — or process or activity — of knowing , remembering , hoping . |
| 59 | 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 ? ’ |
| 60 | What matters is that black kids believe them to operate systematically and continuously . |