Example sentences of "[verb] is the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clearly , one of the invincible conventions of the ‘ Romance ’ label is that desire should not be consummated before at the very least a proposal of marriage has been secured by the heroine — ‘ the only pain permitted is the sweet pain of unfulfilled desire ’ … |
| 2 | Of course walking is the chief activity . |
| 3 | ( Thus in the current debate about the ordination of women , both sides ask what does Jesus ' message suggest is the right thing to do , what difference does it make that Jesus was a male human being , or what kind of a community was the early church ? |
| 4 | Taking away the protection which the Wages Councils provide is the latest step in the bullion offensive against the poorest in society . |
| 5 | All it covers is the basic treatment in line with the minimum requirement in the country where you are staying — and that can be very different from what you would expect from the NHS . |
| 6 | What matters is the contemporary nature of Saunders ' claims , not in abstraction but , because at a superficial level they , in common with similar work by Dahrendorf ( 1987 ) , Bauman ( 1987 ) , Pahl ( 1984 , 1985 ) and particularly Gorz ( 1982 ) , seem to make a lot of descriptive sense . |
| 7 | What matters is the moral standing of the man who holds the wires in his hands , like ten thousand million strings . |
| 8 | What matters is the ultimate profit , and if it can be increased by employing some more salesmen so be it , even if the numbers go in the wrong way . |
| 9 | The attitude-holder , in expressing the attitude , may not actually be engaged in face-to-face debate , for what matters is the general context of controversy , not the specific interpersonal context . |
| 10 | Indeed , the pervasive appeal of the term ‘ bottom line ’ ( profit after all deductions ) is such that it is often used as the ultimate test of success in any aspect of society ; in sport , how well the game is played is irrelevant , what matters is the final score — the bottom line is winning or losing . |
| 11 | What matters is the basic principle behind the exercise . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Molar loss is the number of places in the mandible where a tooth should be present but is not ; and molars expected is the total number of teeth that should be present in the available sample of mandibles ( mostly this is 3 per mandible ) . |
| 14 | Included is the actual program code for a finished application called Databox . |
| 15 | Still to come is the awful Ghost Dad , basically another attempt to get Bill Cosby 's TV act to work on the big screen ( Bill plays a workaholic dad who , once dead , gets to spend more time with his family ) . |
| 16 | What this diagram clearly exposes is the temporary nature of Keynesian unemployment in these models . |
| 17 | The SparKit LSI is announcing is the self-same kit it was supposed to come up with almost two years ago — one that would have produced a Sparcstation 2 clone for $18,000 . |
| 18 | VG LIMS is the first Laboratory Information Management Systems to be available on the RS60000 series of IMB computers and represents a major breakthrough in this field . |
| 19 | The crucial issue which this sort of situation emphasises is the vital importance of perception between persons of different cultures , which can only be partially ameliorated by the procedure suggested by James Lee . |
| 20 | The fact that these emotions exist in industrial and other enterprises and that the ego finds ways of defending against bad experiences is not at issue ; what is more difficult to establish is the complex way in which these feelings are dealt with . |
| 21 | It is also confusion between a proper assurance based on experience and the insight deriving from it , and the dogmatism which so easily follows but is distinct from it , and which insists that what we happen to know is the only thing that matters — what others have discovered or had revealed to them is unimportant . |
| 22 | With a practice partner all you need to know is the key word chosen . |
| 23 | ‘ One other thing they 'll want to know is the real reason why Sara was in father 's office at just after six this morning . ’ |
| 24 | You 're thinking more than doing and er wit you know sarcasm they say is the lowest form of wit but actually sarcasm probably is wit . |
| 25 | What counts is the increasing divergence between them ( and , for a Frenchman , France 's continued indecision about which system to pursue ) . |
| 26 | The relative scores of competing hypotheses are more relevant , but what really counts is the eventual quality of the complete spanning theory . ’ |
| 27 | SMARTDRiVe is the free disk cacheing program provided with DOS 5 ( the version you should be using now ) . |
| 28 | The line to be edited is the second line in the file E.CLI . |
| 29 | An important by-product of cracking is the two-carbon molecule ethylene . |
| 30 | Swam is the only word . |