Example sentences of "[verb] is [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What matters is access to Japan 's markets ; America would be content if Japan increased its imports and exports by the same amount ( leaving the trade balance , and the associated accounting identities , undisturbed ) . |
| 2 | The usual legal connotations of ownership are therefore irrelevant , but the possession of information , or the ability to control it , may nevertheless be of great significance ; in an entirely trivial sense the paper or computer tape on which information is recorded can be owned , and while this does not confer rights of ownership over the information itself , this distinction may seem empty if what really matters is control of access to and use of information . |
| 3 | you need to write is sine of sine of forty equals what ? |
| 4 | A default action is any action , other than an admiralty action or a rent action , in which the only relief claimed is payment of money , whether that sum is already ascertained ( eg a debt ) or is to be ascertained in due course by the court ( damages ) . |
| 5 | Although the only relief claimed is payment of money , in form of process it resembles a fixed-date action ( see below ) . |
| 6 | The most important determinant of gall bladder emptying is contraction of gall bladder smooth muscle , although the resistance to bile flow at the cystic duct and sphincter of Oddi may also modulate the process . |
| 7 | What we want is peace with security . " |
| 8 | Now if you 've got somebody who you are protecting their family , and they 'll be paying that plan twenty five years or more , the fact that they pay commissions out for the first four years is immaterial , what they want is peace of mind and protection . |
| 9 | I know one thing she needs is mail from home , as this cheers her up and reminds her she is not alone . |
| 10 | An avenue Lord Owen wants to explore is compliance by Croats and Muslims in territory they control . |
| 11 | THE cricket season it would appear is back to front with the excellent weather coming late in the summer and the two principal magazines which cover the sport , only hitting the news-stands in the last couple of weeks . |
| 12 | THE cricket season it would appear is back to front with the excellent weather coming late in the summer and the two principal magazines which cover the sport , only hitting the newsstands in the last couple of weeks . |
| 13 | The main principle applied is prevention of radiation escape from the source , which greatly reduces the size of the equipment . |
| 14 | What is urgently needed is forms of education which open up resources — intellectual and material , critical and role-supporting , analytical and committed — to sustain a dialogue between people engaged in different kinds of struggle : a dialogue that respects the differences , while seeking to generalise out of practice at local level to reach an understanding of the power structures against which struggle takes place . |
| 15 | This will involve communication from the relevant semantic entry to the phonological output lexicon , which enables you to produce the appropriate spoken form corresponding to the semantic entry , i.e. to say ‘ elephant ’ ( unless what we asked you to do was write the answer down , in which case what is needed is communication from semantics to the orthographic output lexicon ) . |
| 16 | What it believes is needed is leadership from SunSoft Inc throwing its weight behind ES/MP . |
| 17 | What is needed is prayer for healing . |
| 18 | This was largely as a consequence of his undoubted materialism , according to which all that exists is matter in motion . |
| 19 | Now it is easier as all that has to be shown is value for money and that the private sector is shouldering the risk of not being paid . |
| 20 | All that liberals can not tolerate is pretension to infallibility . |
| 21 | What I know is sense of others profits . |
| 22 | The only problem you 're likely to encounter is jerkiness of movement as the nodes grow too far apart . |
| 23 | All it takes is attention to detail , a sound knowledge of the yachts , and their crews , and above all … experience . |
| 24 | Moving is development in IBM — and to bring that full circle , the depth of well developed IBM people has demonstrated itself in the company 's extraordinary ability to get so many thousand people into new jobs , even in new places . |
| 25 | A promising line of thought , due to McDowell , is that all one requires is transfer of information simpliciter . |
| 26 | An example where the latter part of s.3(1) did not apply is Broom v Crowther ( 1984 ) 148 JP 592 ( DC ) . |
| 27 | All you pay is £1.99 for membership . |
| 28 | I think erm , often when judges , I do n't know whether George or any other judges that might be here tonight , one of the things which I as a judge often dread is photographs of babies coming up in competition . |
| 29 | Illustrated is Skies to Dieppe showing 175 Squadron Hurricanes on their way to the abortive Dieppe Raid of August 19 , 1942 . |
| 30 | The main reason they are not overcome is lack of time to discover the mistake and put it right . |