Example sentences of "matter [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well aye I said to her as long as she 'll come home safe and sound it 's all that matters in n it ? |
| 2 | As long as it 's healthy that 's all that matters in n it ? |
| 3 | What matters is what happens when the individual , who incorporates his past , incorporates and transforms the divisions which are part of that past . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | What matters is that something should be done to give us jobs and money to live on . |
| 6 | What matters is not just what Parliament decides but how it decides . |
| 7 | Within the Tory Party , what ultimately matters is not how many friends you have , but rather the power and strength of your enemies . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | People do tend , I think rather superficially , to concentrate on figures and relationships between the figures , whereas what really matters is the concept behind them and I think a financier could be somebody who is awfully bad at arithmetic , but does understand the concepts . |
| 10 | Again in the New Guinea Highlands , women are the main agents in producing both agricultural products and the most valuable possession — pigs — but then , in the view of these people , what really matters is not production , but large-scale , ceremonial exchanges and the significance of women 's role in production is once more ideologically denied . |
| 11 | What matters is that the Labour leader is suddenly there , reminding one how infrequently he has been there hitherto . |
| 12 | What really matters is the ability to recognise when the cheese has been properly stored by the retailer and when it is being offered for sale in prime condition . |
| 13 | Rather , what matters is the certainty of supply schedules . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It was Michael Dukakis who said that what matters is ‘ not ideology , but competence ’ . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | What really matters is not how the horse won , but that he did win , and that in doing so he ended his racecourse career displaying that sparkling but short-lived turn of foot for which he will long be remembered . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | What matters is whether we have the creative drive to generate new production . |
| 20 | What matters is how it is handled . |
| 21 | What matters is the making . |
| 22 | What matters is to identify problems and opportunities . |
| 23 | What matters is that they find the system simple to use and it certainly simplifies the practitioner 's lot . |
| 24 | In the search for knowledge what matters is the truth that is knowledge . |
| 25 | But in monumental sculpture , as in gatherings of important people in real life , what matters is who stands next to whom , and what is said of them . |
| 26 | What matters is which strategy accumulated the most ‘ money ’ , summed over all its 15 pairings . |
| 27 | Without going into the details ( they are distractingly complicated ) what matters is that their genes do not leave the snail 's body in the snail 's sperms or eggs . |
| 28 | What matters is now . |
| 29 | What matters is what is thought of it , how it is seen , what is done to it , and what is expected from it . |
| 30 | What matters is simply the ranking of the options available . |