Example sentences of "what [verb] [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just as important as establishing what to include is deciding what to exclude , and it is here that the purists may find cause to tar and feather us . |
| 2 | For men the question of what to wear is nearly always answered by a suit . |
| 3 | For women the question of what to wear is slightly more complex simply because there are more options . |
| 4 | What 'appens is women 'ave bébés and sometimes they die . |
| 5 | and have a word with him because he he knows what chutes is blocked up and what wants cleaning out . |
| 6 | In essence the mechanics of inspections can be the same ; what differs is the role of such inspectors and their experience of inspection . |
| 7 | What differs is that holists derive attributes from structural location , and individualists from relational properties . |
| 8 | That infants fail to search in these situations — although they clearly have the motor skills to do so — is one of the empirical bolsters to the view that what develops is the ability to relate actions to experiences ‘ of ’ them ( again : whatever ‘ of ’ means in this context ! ) . |
| 9 | what quivers is the breeze , our breath . |
| 10 | And since each book here can be traced to those whose decision it was to discard , it is important to emphasise that no personal blame is implied , and that the responsibility for what occurred is not his necessarily , but of those who employed him . |
| 11 | This may be right but what counts is leverage , not force . |
| 12 | ‘ What counts is that I enjoy doing my job . |
| 13 | On the logic of validation itself , Popper make the striking proposal that what counts is not confirmation but falsification . |
| 14 | For some purposes it matters that mice are not cats , while for others what counts is that both are animals . |
| 15 | In one case what counts is the ‘ objective positions ’ which ‘ white people ’ as such occupy within the ‘ racist power structure ’ ; in the second it is their socialization , or cultural traditions which racializes their relationships to blacks . |
| 16 | What counts is the net surface-charge density inside our chosen volume and that has n't increased at all . |
| 17 | That the aggregate wealth of society is as high as it can be is of no moral value in itself ; what counts is the effect of increases in total wealth on the welfare of the individuals who make up society . |
| 18 | As for the author 's intentions , what counts is only whether or not he has succeeded in writing poetry , and that too can be discerned by reference to the text alone . |
| 19 | ‘ What counts is the quality of care we give to the patients . ’ |
| 20 | What counts is the increasing divergence between them ( and , for a Frenchman , France 's continued indecision about which system to pursue ) . |
| 21 | No , no , quite performance is not what counts is it ? |
| 22 | Well that 's what counts is n't it ? |
| 23 | What matters is what happens when the individual , who incorporates his past , incorporates and transforms the divisions which are part of that past . |
| 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 that something should be done to give us jobs and money to live on . |
| 26 | What matters is not just what Parliament decides but how it decides . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | What matters is that the Labour leader is suddenly there , reminding one how infrequently he has been there hitherto . |
| 29 | Rather , what matters is the certainty of supply schedules . |
| 30 | What matters is not to rethink the Bank 's role , but to make the Bank as good as possible at the job it already has . |