Example sentences of "what [vb -s] is " in BNC.
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| 1 | What 'appens is women 'ave bébés and sometimes they die . |
| 2 | and have a word with him because he he knows what chutes is blocked up and what wants cleaning out . |
| 3 | In essence the mechanics of inspections can be the same ; what differs is the role of such inspectors and their experience of inspection . |
| 4 | What differs is that holists derive attributes from structural location , and individualists from relational properties . |
| 5 | 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 ! ) . |
| 6 | what quivers is the breeze , our breath . |
| 7 | This may be right but what counts is leverage , not force . |
| 8 | ‘ What counts is that I enjoy doing my job . |
| 9 | On the logic of validation itself , Popper make the striking proposal that what counts is not confirmation but falsification . |
| 10 | For some purposes it matters that mice are not cats , while for others what counts is that both are animals . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | What counts is the net surface-charge density inside our chosen volume and that has n't increased at all . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ What counts is the quality of care we give to the patients . ’ |
| 16 | What counts is the increasing divergence between them ( and , for a Frenchman , France 's continued indecision about which system to pursue ) . |
| 17 | No , no , quite performance is not what counts is it ? |
| 18 | Well that 's what counts is n't it ? |
| 19 | What matters is what happens when the individual , who incorporates his past , incorporates and transforms the divisions which are part of that past . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | What matters is that something should be done to give us jobs and money to live on . |
| 22 | What matters is not just what Parliament decides but how it decides . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | What matters is that the Labour leader is suddenly there , reminding one how infrequently he has been there hitherto . |
| 25 | Rather , what matters is the certainty of supply schedules . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | It was Michael Dukakis who said that what matters is ‘ not ideology , but competence ’ . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | What matters is whether we have the creative drive to generate new production . |