Example sentences of "[is] [subord] they [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pointing to the way in which poverty structured the lives of the majority of her respondents , she concluded that ‘ young Black women and young white women become pregnant for the same sorts of reasons , and this is because they share the same socio-economic contexts ’ ( Phoenix , 1988a , p. 154 ) . |
| 2 | Seven out of the forty women specifically mention the pleasure they obtain from seeing a line full of clean clothes ; some explain it is because they anticipate the silent admiration of neighbours at this visible ( though shortlived ) achievement . |
| 3 | If I sounded dubious about The Smiths , it 's because they represented the first threat to us . ’ |
| 4 | I believe it 's because they have the best connections , and they 're paying the most money . |
| 5 | What is questionable is whether they make the best use of this information , particularly of that which , if they were competent to extract it , could be deduced from the companies ' published accounts . |