Example sentences of "[vb -s] [is] that [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | What matters is that they find the system simple to use and it certainly simplifies the practitioner 's lot . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | ‘ What matters is that she has given us the most glorious production we have ever had at Hochhauser . |
4 | What matters is that I need never question that there is a course which is objectively the best for me , and that when most aware I am nearest to it . |
5 | ‘ What matters is that I have signed a class international player who can score goals , a player who could become a giant at Old Trafford . |
6 | ‘ What counts is that I enjoy doing my job . |
7 | It can also mean " unrestrained " in the sense either of freedom to act or prodigality in giving : what Wilekin wants is that she give herself . |
8 | Well mum , what it wants is that I got this tooth |
9 | well what in actual fact happened , it 's not easy to get Terry Wogan at a moments notice to come and sit down , what in actual fact happens is that we draw up exactly what it is , that , that he would be saying and what the answer will be , he sees that and it 's totally approved , understandably he 's not gon na put his name to anything that he does n't believe is , is correct and that is how it 's done and |
10 | What so often happens is that we do not share feelings till finally the back filter gets overloaded and we literally blow a hole through it sending forth a gush of accusations which are totally counterproductive . |
11 | What erm happens is that we obtain the toxin from erm from the from a serpentarium . |
12 | What happens is that we begin well as Christians as we remember our past clearly . |
13 | All that happens is that you keep bouncing off it , and in the end you just get hurt ! ’ |
14 | Well that 's fine then erm and what what what happens is that you do it through a bank but there are banks which I think Barclays and the Cooperative Bank and maybe one or two others do it . |
15 | What happens is that it falls apart , its rib-cage falling away and the limbs dropping from their sockets . |
16 | What the elder thus proclaims is that he has a ‘ hotline ’ to the ancestors , that they are on his side and , in effect , do his bidding . |
17 | If we look at this client server model today one of the most significant advantages it delivers is that it allows us to run different kinds of applications on different computers . |
18 | What Pausanias implies is that he found nothing in this source about the Celtic art of divination which had been extolled by Posidonius and other authorities . |
19 | ‘ What Clarissa means is that we have n't — mercifully — heard you for ages . ’ |
20 | Now what that means is that we have what we call an agency budget . |
21 | What it means is that we reduce our service , and we take , we can , we can , we can expect the independent sector to fill that gap for us . |
22 | What that obviously means is that they 've drawn from a very , from a very wide area and therefore , they , they 've got the long , main industrial estate , which has thirteen factories , of which only three are occupied , and ten which are unoccupied , which are erm , in fact deteriorating . |
23 | All this means is that they have built-in microprocessors which convert the characters and instructions sent from the computer into a series of co-ordinates which the plotter then draws . |
24 | But what he probably means is that they set up signs for |
25 | What he really means is that he putted like the devil and it was grossly unfair — there is even a feeling that it is ‘ not quite golf ’ to win by superior skill on the greens . |
26 | All that means is that he puts the letters into a plastic bag so they wo n't get eaten by beetles or woodworm or whatever . |
27 | ‘ But all that means is that I know damn well what not to do . |
28 | What it means is that I have to be with him , except when I 'm working , since he ca n't always take time to be with me . ’ |
29 | Now what that means is that you 've admitted the offence which you were arrested for which is er |
30 | This requires you to utilise the JMP-1 's output mapping , and all it means is that you tell the JMP-1 that every time it selects , say , patch 6 , information is sent to the effects processor to change its current patch to whatever patch you require . |