Example sentences of "[vb -s] is that [art] [adj] " 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | One of the difficulties he acknowledges is that the Irish are not given to fighting ‘ civilised ’ battles on a properly organised battle field . |
| 11 | All it requires is that the political label , whatever it is , should make a disproportionately strong appeal to the members of the ethnic group . |
| 12 | What he ignores is that the poor in eighteenth century England sometimes spoke for themselves . |
| 13 | Unless it is to be assumed that all these territories represent kingdoms established by the Mercians , what the evidence indicates is that the Mercian leaders were extending their influence into originally independent kingdoms on their borders . |
| 14 | ‘ What this actually means is that a huge number of BBC Scotland staff , are now directly under London control , ’ said one departmental head . |
| 15 | What this means is that the rule-based competence which the monitor offers to the BSL learner is the already established grammatical knowledge of English . |
| 16 | What it really means is that the new trams are a hybrid between street car and lightweight suburban train . |
| 17 | It 's er what this means it means is that the guaranteed price in this country is a lot lower than it is in other European countries . |
| 18 | All that means is that the original form was present in the rest of the Rift Valley during this period , never went extinct , and has now come into the lake again and has either made extinct , or in some other way swamped out the local form . |
| 19 | One important point which Anthony makes is that the essential quality of the psychotic temperament is emotional hypersensitivity or ‘ skinlessness ’ , with which the child copes by developing a degree of resilience to painful thoughts and events . |
| 20 | At the most general level , what Table 2.2 demonstrates is that the absolute loss of manufacturing employment has not just been ‘ reflected ’ in the different parts of the country . |
| 21 | What this suggests is that a different type of decision-making with correspondingly different procedures may be more relevant . |
| 22 | The definite article is important , for what it suggests is that the modern notion of sexuality — both the importance we assign to it , and the theoretical unification it implies — is an historical construct of the past few hundred years . |