Example sentences of "[verb] is [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What he is asserting is that ‘ I have toothache ’ has meaning in virtue of pain-language taking the place of moaning ; and what he is denying is that saying this commits him to an experiential explanation of the meaning of pain-language . |
| 2 | Then I had to place my cock down on the glass , but the way this copier is designed — I disliked this copier , by the way , that place is too cheap to lease a decent brand of copier — the way it 's designed is that a normal eight and a half by eleven piece of paper is oriented sideways in the middle of the glass between two marks , you how that works , right ? ’ |
| 3 | What they suggest is that the roots of these activities lay deep in popular or folk culture but that ultimately the new urban manifestation of these activities revealed more about the values of the business classes than they did about the masses themselves . |
| 4 | The surprising conclusion they suggest is that the Council was more of a brake on the sovereignty of the Assembly than is usually supposed . |
| 5 | So what I suggest is that we |
| 6 | The interpretation they suggest is that the compositions of the trusts were changing too quickly for the adjustment procedure . |
| 7 | Er , which I think is , is excellent , and what I suggest is that we look at trying to get exposed in some of the professional journals really . |
| 8 | There are a number of , sort of a dictionary of useful phrases , I mean you actually used one or two just now , and one of the things that we suggest is that people when they 're not under the pressure of being in the studio , which after all for them is alien territory , that they should actually have one or two of these useful phrases which do cover a , a multitude of embarrassing situations , if you want to put it that away . |
| 9 | What is equally worth noticing is that Antisthenes of Rhodes was one of the historians Polybius disliked and attacked . |
| 10 | What is here stressed is that there is , and for many decades has consistently been , an active and relatively vociferous body of thought among librarians concerned with the active exploitation of the collection and the development of busy programmes of dissemination . |
| 11 | An interesting additional finding which is stressed is that it appears that such people are more rather than less likely to exhibit qualities of psychological balance and social responsibility . |
| 12 | The fact presupposed is that the Earth revolves on its axis so that places on the Earth have varying positions relative to the Sun . |
| 13 | The reason that sales have not boomed is that many customers have been disappointed at what robots do for them . |
| 14 | What few people seem to accept is that he might be exactly what he appears to be . |
| 15 | What this rush to a newer , more gorgeous you fails to accept is that you ca n't keep up the pace forever . |
| 16 | What I 'm not prepared to accept is that he 's entitled to lead a charmed life while others struggle and falter and fail . |
| 17 | the first thing that we , we , we would respect is and suggest and this is a course which has been offered erm , erm , in order of other cases , er , we should ask that the er because of the adjournment necessary for investigation , the , the money will attract interest and we would ask for an order that the erm , the plaintiff is entitled to interest at the special account rate on any lump sum hereafter ordered to be paid , now what that means is that if at the end of the day the instruction say goes off and the conventional lump sum order is made , we are entitled to interest on the whole of that lump sum , if on the other hand a structured settlement is put into position and er part is either applied to the purchase of the annuities , in the commercial way to try and settle it or taken it back by the health authority , in consideration for self funding structured settlement , then we would only get the interest on the actual cash we have been kept |
| 18 | What matters is that something should be done to give us jobs and money to live on . |
| 19 | What matters is that the Labour leader is suddenly there , reminding one how infrequently he has been there hitherto . |
| 20 | What matters is that we realise that they are being friendly , so we shout back , ‘ It 's a lovely day today , is n't it ? ’ , or some such thing which they probably will not hear anyway , but the idea of friendliness has been transferred , and both people are happy , although the words were quite unintelligible . |
| 21 | What matters is that they find the system simple to use and it certainly simplifies the practitioner 's lot . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | What matters is that people should have somewhere to live . |
| 25 | ‘ 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 . |
| 26 | Consequently , the offenders are not important ; what matters is that opportunities must be reduced and risks increased and this requires that attention be given to the situations in which offences may occur . |
| 27 | But the ‘ truth ’ is not the point at issue ; what matters is that as human beings we necessarily engage in an interpretative process when we encounter others , as they do with us . |
| 28 | What matters is that Ministers should be ready and willing to come to the House of Commons when expected to do so in order to answer questions from elected representatives on matters of genuine public interest and importance . |
| 29 | What matters is that the creative solution has a credible and realistic basis . |
| 30 | The history of continuing post-war pressure by officers for a flatted development in the East End of North Shields is a fascinating one but for our purposes here what matters is that nearly 1000 flats and maisonettes were built , again at a higher unit cost than that of the contemporary construction of traditional dwellings . |