Example sentences of "[verb] is that [art] [adj] [noun] " 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 the Labour leader is suddenly there , reminding one how infrequently he has been there hitherto . |
| 3 | What matters is that the creative solution has a credible and realistic basis . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | What is happening is that the old orthodoxies are being softened , rather than up-ended . |
| 7 | From a health policy perspective the scenario depicted is that the increasing numbers of older people described earlier will lead to the population of the western industrial nations being infirm , demented and disease ridden with an insatiable demand for health and social care . |
| 8 | One problem that remains to be resolved is that the high reflectivity of the glass over many of the paintings , especially in rooms that have lighting from side windows , makes it difficult to view the works . |
| 9 | What we have not previously considered is that a cultural trait may have evolved in the way that it has , simply because it is advantageous to itself . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | You what s normally happens is that the following year when you make profit you say ah but last year I made er you know I made a loss of ten thousand pound set that off against the profit of ten thousand pound I made this year so that tax pay losses can be carried forward there are other more complex ways of doing it too but that 's the standard sort of way , I think . |
| 12 | So physiologically what happens is that the principal flux through the channel is that of sodium , and that 's simply , although although the er channel is non-selective it 's simply because the sodium is at high activity outside , low activity inside and potassium is reasonably close to equilibrium . |
| 13 | Very broadly , what happens is that the budgeted amounts of expenditure are credited to appropriation accounts and then as expenditure is incurred debits are set against these credits . |
| 14 | The impression I have from such documents as I have seen is that the obvious hardship to the residents of Bridge and Medway Roads was somewhat played down and the employment and general economic benefits were underlined . |
| 15 | What those figures certainly reveal is that the real gains in investment in British business since 1979 have been sustained , so that even at the depth of this present recession investment is 40 per cent . |
| 16 | A useful rule to remember is that a diagonal line between opposite corners of any rectangle is the longest dimension available . |
| 17 | What we need to remember is that a crude comparison of local authority figures is of limited value and our understanding of trends and contrasts would be improved if we took account of Farmer and Parker 's findings . |
| 18 | ‘ What your map may not show is that the only way down to Thira anchorage is by mule-track down a precipitous cliff . |
| 19 | The most that can be said is that a good case can be made out for so doing ; law-abiding spectators would probably be sympathetic , depending upon the outcome . |
| 20 | As it is , all that can really be said is that the collective wisdom , such as it is , of the agency business favours bursts in most circumstances . |
| 21 | What might be said is that the ethical connotation of the method of action he proposed was being made clear by the choice of satyāgraha rather than sadāgraha . |
| 22 | We are , of course , assuming that we are using an ideal switch which does n't exist in real life , but the point being made is that a switching system will be a lot more efficient than any resistive control element where dissipation is invariably relatively large . |
| 23 | This book is not the place to undertake such a task ; but one comment that might be made is that an initial distinction between class and status is likely to be important ; for it is the evaluative rather than the economic dimension of stratification which seems to be relevant to linguistic variation . |
| 24 | The final point to be made is that the local researcher should trust his instinct , and if something ‘ feels ’ wrong it may well actually be wrong , and with diligence can be so proved . |
| 25 | The final point to be made is that the whole reading experience takes place within a particular cultural setting , and this will affect reception . |
| 26 | All that happened is that the electric field drew some charges to the surface of the dielectric which caused then some additional charges to appear on the surface of the conductor . |
| 27 | So what happened is that the literate women arranged their time so that every day they now have an hour set by to sit down with one of the illiterates and that 's how the literacy campaign is operating at the moment . |
| 28 | So the second factor that the Prime Minister overlooked is that the existing chamber in Strasbourg is simply not large enough to accommodate the extra numbers of Euro MPs who will be elected to the European parliament , not so much as a result of the Edinburgh agreement , but in fact as a result of the er enlargement that is in prospect . |
| 29 | As an Egyptian columnist recently remarked in the Cairo newspaper Al Ahram : ‘ What this shows is that the new world order is a system of codified international piracy . ’ |
| 30 | What this shows is that the physical absence or presence of the other party at the time of the transaction by itself bears no necessary relationship to the appropriateness of the transaction being investigated and made the subject of an order by an English court . |