Example sentences of "[verb] is [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , we 've actually er , way we 've designed is that erm , it 's actually a sort of , it 's inserted in the ham handbook itself as actually a , sort of separate removal section so they can |
| 2 | In the proposed E two the only development that would be permitted is that which needs to be in the open countryside and that 's a much more rigorous test . |
| 3 | The theory that had wrongly been supposed is that boiling water is hot enough to make tea . |
| 4 | A RARE movie — the mainly horrible How The West Was Won is another — that tries to include the whole arc of the West in its plot , expending its first hours on the virgin land as Kevin Costner communes with nature and Indians , but the finale has to admit the good days are gone , as demonstrated by the coming of the brutish cavalry intent on making the Sioux the first victims of the expansionist whites . |
| 5 | what I suggest is these procedures are , we briefly mentioned this this morning , are supposed to reflect the best practice of what we do now . |
| 6 | What we do not need is another socialist experiment starting next Thursday . |
| 7 | To recapitulate : what Schopenhauer demonstrated is that music differs in character and origin from the other arts because they represent phenomena , while music represents metaphysical reality directly . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | What matters is that black kids believe them to operate systematically and continuously . |
| 10 | ‘ What matters is that art — however you choose to define it — is still considered something worth bothering about . ’ |
| 11 | For our purposes what matters is that RNA , or something like it , was around for a long time before it became self-replicating . |
| 12 | What matters is that economic advances in some regions offset to a degree the general pressure on real wages of the rising population . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | What these critics apparently ca n't stomach is that wealth creators have a tendency to acquire wealth in the process of creating it for others . |
| 15 | Whether anyone will buy is another matter . |
| 16 | The right hon. Gentleman follows such matters closely and he will be aware that the typical price of the major works that the national gallery must buy is several millions . |
| 17 | One of the big changes that they propose is that should be put on an exact par with within . |
| 18 | ‘ And what I propose is this — that we introduce an additional label into the collection . |
| 19 | ‘ What many people commenting recently seem to have forgotten is that account managers have bosses too , ’ says the caterer . |
| 20 | A point that is often forgotten is that effective co-operation is not just a matter of professionals working with each other . |
| 21 | And most important of all and it is often forgotten is that in South Africa the regime and the western powers were facing a real hot revolution and that hot revolution could have destroyed the country for all its people . |
| 22 | All I have claimed is that consent to obey is recognized , and with reason , as one way of expressing such an attitude . |
| 23 | What can not be claimed is that education is always the cause and economic growth the effect . |
| 24 | Has is that is that fair too ? |
| 25 | Ehm is a it is n't actually a a erm a new school it 's Birchwood High School it used to be Margaret Dane which has been established a few years but Birchwood just been started for a year erm it has is some information but obviously there have n't been any feedback from the school so I starts there . |
| 26 | If gaining information is one skill , filtering what one has is another . |
| 27 | The point of issue is that estuary and coastal zone management is a reality and what seems to be happening is all sorts of different plans are popping up on various estuaries and Geoff knows them well now because he 's been involved with the one on the Stour and Orwell and what is happening is that these are starting at local level so the first contact with sailors may be from a local authority or someone at local level . |
| 28 | What is happening is that car-owning families are buying another . |
| 29 | In reality what has been happening is that humanity , driven by the inexorable power of the primordial desire for earthly happiness , has been producing a constant stream of decisions from which the good , which will ultimately help with the building of the Created God , have been extracted . |
| 30 | But what is happening is that private care is beginning to recreate some of the practices that the statutory authorities have been working away from . |