Example sentences of "[vb -s] is that a " in BNC.
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| 1 | What matters is that a particular location in my DNA corresponds precisely to one particular location in your DNA : they have the same address . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Rather what happens is that a reflex reaction takes place whereby a signal is sent to the adrenal gland to release the chemical adrenalin into the blood stream . |
| 4 | What happens is that a matter particle , such as an electron or a quark , emits a force-carrying particle . |
| 5 | Well I get involved in it in so many different ways erm this is a difficult one , but one of the things that happens is that a number of teachers , both from the area and elsewhere , erm do advanced courses at the university and as part of these courses we have a unit on evaluation , and for this they will choose some area of their school work which they and their colleagues — and I emphasise that this is something they do have to involve their colleagues back at school in very much — erm feel it would be useful to look at and then they try and discuss with their colleagues what aspects of it are important and significant and what ought to be seen , and they bring this discussion back and we all discuss together there 'll be different teachers working on different problems the different ways in which they could approach this problem and how they might most usefully be able to do it and at the end of the exercise they will have found out quite a lot about this particular area of teaching and very often we find that the people they 've consulted have themselves got quite interested in it and begun to realize that it 's not being done in a way that 's there to threaten them , they 're not sending a report to the headmaster or the Chief Education Officer or anything like that — it 's for the benefit of the people doing the work themselves . |
| 6 | No because section fifty four A and all section fifty four A says is that a decision should be made on a planning application , in accordance with the development plan . |
| 7 | What all this shows is that a distinctively structuralist kind of criticism is possible , and moreover , that it is more than the simple application and refinement of the tools of poetics . |
| 8 | So what this example shows is that a sentence which seems to contain one assertion can turn out to contain many different assertions , some in the form of presuppositions . |
| 9 | What this implies is that a group of people who , as consumers , constructed and sustained this image of the individualist tradition also , as producers , constructed the very image of change , community and modernity to which it is opposed . |
| 10 | All it means is that a preference for managerial power rather than recognition is more likely to be a successful mix for a manager . |
| 11 | ‘ What this actually means is that a huge number of BBC Scotland staff , are now directly under London control , ’ said one departmental head . |
| 12 | What it basically means is that an extrovert tends to tends to have a wide area of interests but wo n't investigate them as much as perhaps that that deeply , and that includes friends as well , and that includes people around them and they look at the wideness rather than the depth . |
| 13 | What this suggests is that a different type of decision-making with correspondingly different procedures may be more relevant . |
| 14 | What it provides is that a company proposing to allot equity securities shall not allot them to any person unless it has first offered , on the same or more favourable terms , to each person who holds relevant shares or relevant employee shares , a proportion of those equity securities which is as nearly as practicable equal to his existing proportion in nominal value of his aggregate holdings of relevant shares and relevant employee shares . |