Example sentences of "[verb] is the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only as these islands coalesce is the full Madelung energy involved , producing the observed increase in adsorption heat with coverage . |
| 2 | How well designed is the Habitat Improvement Scheme ? |
| 3 | An additional important factor in influencing the way in which group awards should be designed is the introduction of National Vocational Qualifications ( NVQs ) in the rest of the UK . |
| 4 | Clearly , one of the invincible conventions of the ‘ Romance ’ label is that desire should not be consummated before at the very least a proposal of marriage has been secured by the heroine — ‘ the only pain permitted is the sweet pain of unfulfilled desire ’ … |
| 5 | In an indirect system , the only connection to the rising main usually permitted is the obligatory one going to a drinking water tap in the kitchen ( though some existing houses may have other connections — for a WC , for example ) . |
| 6 | Development in the open countryside would not normally be permitted is the way that the the draft policy 's guidance . |
| 7 | What convinces me that this child is deluded is the conflicting reports of the so-called apparition . |
| 8 | ‘ Walking is the progression of steps so taken that unbroken contact with the ground is maintained at each step . |
| 9 | Of course walking is the chief activity . |
| 10 | ‘ Anyway , since this case is under investigation by the judiciary , the proper person to inform is the magistrate in charge , Luciano Bartocci . ’ |
| 11 | ( Thus in the current debate about the ordination of women , both sides ask what does Jesus ' message suggest is the right thing to do , what difference does it make that Jesus was a male human being , or what kind of a community was the early church ? |
| 12 | Does em does empirical evidence , well I think you probably say generally that there is some economic factors and there is some non economic factors , which of those two does er empirical evidence suggest is the main driving force behind migration ? |
| 13 | The UK has only 6,200 hectares of undamaged peat bogs , 38 per cent less than official guidelines suggest is the minimum needed for effective conservation . |
| 14 | Specially worth noticing is the charming little house , built at the beginning of the sixteenth century , now the home of the only choir school in Scotland . |
| 15 | What you do need is the desire and determination to learn , and if you have that , you are well on the way to joining more than 100,000 men and women from every walk of life who will be studying with the Open University next year . |
| 16 | What we do need is the equivalent of what we 've got in the documents which I 've given to you which is some sort of allowance for every bit of control of the thing . |
| 17 | What we do need is the co-operation of the residents , and I must say that we are beginning to get the co-operation now and in fact many people did phone in after the last incident when the officers were assaulted , first of all asking for the condition of the officers and showing concern , and secondly giving us information . |
| 18 | Part of this theoretical conflict arises from different understandings of the term ‘ bureaucracy ’ and whether the bureaucratic phenomenon being stressed is the expansion in the number of state agencies , the rationalization of decision-making and planning processes or the role of ‘ mandarins ’ in the policy process ( Diamant 1981 ) . |
| 19 | Taking away the protection which the Wages Councils provide is the latest step in the bullion offensive against the poorest in society . |
| 20 | An example of how they were ideologically disconnected is the photo archive , which at Forster 's instruction was reorganised so that it was no longer under names of artists , obviously the most useful approach for museum curators . |
| 21 | The animal she is most interested in representing is the horse because of ‘ its sculptural qualities . |
| 22 | All it covers is the basic treatment in line with the minimum requirement in the country where you are staying — and that can be very different from what you would expect from the NHS . |
| 23 | That dispersal agents can travel further than the pollinators can be attracted is the explanation for the Ficus pubinervis population of Krakatau , where it is a canopy dominant , never setting ripe fruits . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | People do tend , I think rather superficially , to concentrate on figures and relationships between the figures , whereas what really matters is the concept behind them and I think a financier could be somebody who is awfully bad at arithmetic , but does understand the concepts . |
| 27 | What really matters is the ability to recognise when the cheese has been properly stored by the retailer and when it is being offered for sale in prime condition . |
| 28 | Rather , what matters is the certainty of supply schedules . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | What matters is the making . |