Example sentences of "[vb -s] is [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What matters is whether we have the creative drive to generate new production . |
| 2 | As Brew notes , what now matters is whether large , often arrogant companies want to be truly transparent to their varied audiences . |
| 3 | What really matters is whether or not we all believe certain essentials about the sacraments . |
| 4 | What matters is whether at that time the patient 's capacity was reduced below the level needed in the case of a refusal of that importance , for refusals can vary in importance . |
| 5 | Indeed , at the extreme , it could be argued that whether or not there is explicit communication is irrelevant : what matters is whether a collusive agreement , however arrived at , can be sustained by the self-interest of the parties involved . |
| 6 | It hardly matters whether there 's a ghost there to be seen or not — what matters is whether someone is convinced he saw it . |
| 7 | Under the " continuing review " test , what matters is whether the income can directly or indirectly be used for providing a benefit for the individual at the time the benefit in question is in fact conferred on him . |
| 8 | What he questions is whether these disciplines can ‘ support a ‘ technology ’ of language teaching ’ , that is to say , presumably , whether they can directly inform pedagogic technique . |
| 9 | They can also be used for tests for structural change , right , what we 're going to do is to say during peacetime right , we 'll estimate our model , we 'll then estimate our model during wartime and we 're going to assume that the coefficients or the income and price elasticity mark , do n't change during between peace and wartime , all that happens is as they intercept this model shifts , right , now you may thinks that 's not particularly er attractive , you might expect the price of income elasticities to change between two periods and we could actually use dummy variables to see whether that is the case , right , however , we 'll get very similar results , right , if you just use a slope dummy so it 'd intercept dummy , right , and all that 's going to do is to say , well the model runs like this in peacetime , right , and then wartime it suddenly shifts up or down depending on the effect of er of the war on textile consumption . |
| 10 | If you are curious about the bombardier beetle , by the way , what actually happens is as follows . |
| 11 | And they 're not of course because what happens is if you follow their advice and put ten pounds into Global Investment for example then Global Investments will at that stage will pay them . |
| 12 | Yeah , his amp 's got , yeah his amp was built for this particular type of er , I ca n't remember what bloody amp he 's got now there were no , no particularly flash like , you know , er , er , they were saying something to do with clipping , I think it 's to do with clipping they saying the power up , the power point 's alright as long as you do n't clip , because what happens is if the wave forms doing that |
| 13 | if you have , cos what , what happens is if you put A and B it erm it parallels them off , so if you 've got two sets of four amps it 's in two rows |
| 14 | The example that Manne uses is as follows : |
| 15 | Your Lordship er will see from paragraph three eleven that what the letter er says is as we discussed on the telephone , the advantage of the landlord 's objection is that it gives you time to put your finances in order , if the licence was forthcoming now you would be obliged to complete the transaction which at this stage you are unable to do . |
| 16 | Er and what the law says is if you change your mind I 'm afraid the law does n't entitle you to anything at all . |
| 17 | All it says is if you do buy something from a shop and realize it 's faulty , what you should do is take it back to the shop who sold it to you , together with your receipt if you 've still got it or some other proof of purchase . |
| 18 | Why this occurs is as follows : if Dept . |
| 19 | I I there is no evidence that it 's an inherited or venereal problem and this is the , you know you we have there has been lots of sort of studies done to see which woman might be more at risk and which women , you know , might have symptoms and th , the fact is that the reason why you , why the menopause occurs is because the ovaries stop functioning , they stop producing oestrogen and every woman 's ovaries does this and they do it you know , at all varying ages the average age is fifty . |
| 20 | The only time Richard snores , snores is if he 's got a cold and he ca n't breathe through his nose . |
| 21 | The question that this variability raises is whether the decline in morale is an inevitable consequence of the increase in pressure and uncertainty . |
| 22 | Yeah I agree with that , if you know somebody well , especially if you know somebody well and if you work with people and you communicate with people you build up trust , and if the communication 's there and people are talking to each other and passing on information , information 's going round and round trust 'll be there , the only time trust disappears is when somebody feels somebody 's keeping something back . |
| 23 | So what it means is if you buy privately instead of having three statutory rights you 've only got one . |
| 24 | Well it 's a verb phrase so erm they just , all that means is if you take a subject expression and well , what goes , what goes after such expression is a verb phrase , that my opinion not just you know . |
| 25 | What this means is as your reaction time increases it 's believed or been shown that your intelligence quotient or I Q measure decreases . |
| 26 | What I suppose she thinks is if she can afford to do it , do it . |
| 27 | Another subject on which intense confusion remains is whether or not the US was ever offered a chance to apprehend General Noriega ( wanted in Florida on drugs charges ) . |
| 28 | The only question that remains is whether , at the end of the day , the public has really had what professional educators would describe as ‘ a good learning experience ’ . |
| 29 | So there 's there 's lots of reasons to illustrate the point then and another thing of course it does is if it 's one you use on here it helps you remember you do n't have to have that written down because it 's there already produced if it 's a pre-prepared acetate as we call as we call it . |
| 30 | He said and what he often does is because he lives over this area . |