Example sentences of "[verb] [is] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ? ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The surprising conclusion they suggest is that the Council was more of a brake on the sovereignty of the Assembly than is usually supposed . |
| 4 | The interpretation they suggest is that the compositions of the trusts were changing too quickly for the adjustment procedure . |
| 5 | The fact presupposed is that the Earth revolves on its axis so that places on the Earth have varying positions relative to the Sun . |
| 6 | What matters is that a particular location in my DNA corresponds precisely to one particular location in your DNA : they have the same address . |
| 7 | What matters is that a limitation has been set ; and now if a child brings out a gun , a knife , a rope ladder or even a box of matches you can check with the list and then either stay in role and say " You may have meant to bring that rope ladder , but it 's not here " , or come out of role and discuss the agreed rules of the drama , one of which is perhaps that in this drama there is no recourse to magic . |
| 8 | What matters is that the Labour leader is suddenly there , reminding one how infrequently he has been there hitherto . |
| 9 | What matters is that the creative solution has a credible and realistic basis . |
| 10 | What matters is that the doctors should consider whether at that time he had a capacity which was commensurate with the gravity of the decision which he purported to make . |
| 11 | What matters is that the authorities exercise their responsibility for checking and double checking what happens on the ground . |
| 12 | Under the " once-and-for-all " test what matters is that the income can be used to benefit the individual in question in the year of assessment in which it arises , and it does not matter if it is not possible so to apply that income in a subsequent year of assessment . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | However , what is expected is that the Bank of England will require all banks under the Banking Act of 1987 to keep a ratio of ‘ primary liquid assets ’ to some definition of deposit liabilities . |
| 16 | The unfortunate fact that my right hon. Friend must recognise is that the current treaty has been negotiated by the current Government , who do not share our sense of priorities . |
| 17 | What Willis emphasises is that the culture of the shop floor is bounded and has a special sense of completeness about it . |
| 18 | A feature of Pauling 's theory now largely forgotten is that the chain of amino acids in a protein can , at least in principle , be twisted either to the left or the right , giving both left and right-handed helical structures . |
| 19 | What must never be forgotten is that the meaning of the word ‘ god ’ shall be such that its definition can be accepted by all the leading and reasonable people of all races , taught to all children , and be so firmly entrenched within the powers of reason and logic that it becomes inviolable . |
| 20 | What is difficult to establish is whether the job attracts the sort of goal profiles that are suitable or whether the individual is attracted by the job and then develops a profile suitable to it . |
| 21 | What is more difficult to establish is whether the first building was inhabited for a while , demolished just after the inhabitants moved out , immediately paved over , and a new building later constructed ; or whether the first building was inhabited for a while , abandoned by its inhabitants for many years , then collapsed through decay , was paved over later on , and then a second building constructed . |
| 22 | An essential factor to establish is whether the sewer is public or private . |
| 23 | What line B specifies is that the reckoning is God 's : the indicates " the efficient cause ( or personal agent ) " with the passive . |
| 24 | What I think is happening is that a big shoal has moved into the swim ; a very hungry shoal of bream that behave very much like chickens . |
| 25 | How can that erm you know if man does n't destroy the world , well what 's happening is that every year the earth moves towards the sun one centimetre . |
| 26 | All that is happening is that the story is taken over at various points by each of the members of the cast . |
| 27 | What is happening is that the English rural landscape is slowly becoming divided into three major types in the lowlands . |
| 28 | What I hope ( and would like to think ) is happening is that the children are aware of the onlookers , but that they 're making a choice to stay in role ; that their engagement with the issues and the problems of the drama is what is keeping them intent on their work . |
| 29 | Alright , and effectively what 's , what 's happening is that the government sectors in erm , in developing countries are very highly subsidized . |
| 30 | What is happening is that the old orthodoxies are being softened , rather than up-ended . |