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 .
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