Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [be] [that] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And you know they have a very distinctive characteristic do n't they , they have round faces and they 're short and they have slightly slanting eyes , etcetera etcetera , well these children have very marked physical erm appearance they 're fair haired and blue eyed the reason for that is that this substance venial alanine is responsible for the production of pigment , so if that 's interfered with they 're going to be fair haired and blue eyed , they get eczema a lot , they have small heads and they have very widely spaced teeth , sorry down a bit , is that what you want ? |
| 2 | The prime reason for this is that such warehouses have become machines and will only operate correctly if the logic for their function has been meticulously thought out , checked and rechecked . |
| 3 | One reason for this is that many people have a fear which they can not conceal of anything or anybody who reminds them of death ; knowing that contact with a grieving widow will exacerbate these fears they tend , after expressing their sympathy by word or letter , and sending flowers to the funeral , to withdraw to a safe distance ‘ to give her time to get over it ’ just when she needs them most . |
| 4 | The reason for this is that each party can count on the votes of its committed supporters ; what each wants to do is to capture the votes of those perceived as occupying the middle ground between the parties . |
| 5 | Yet again , the optimal solution may be felt to be unsatisfactory and further reflection reveal that the reason for this is that some aspect of the problem has not been modelled adequately . |
| 6 | The evidence for this is that some scarps cut across several sizeable craters , whereas others are cut by sizeable craters , indicating that there are scarps which are older than appreciable numbers of sizeable craters , whereas others are much younger . |
| 7 | The reason suggested for this is that these girls feel that they should be able to cope with their pregnancy and problems on their own instead of sharing them within the unit , as most other girls do . |
| 8 | The reason for this is that few localities contain populations which closely replicate the national profile and even fewer record rates of change similar to the nation as a whole . |
| 9 | One reason for this is that more women are first offenders , who are generally treated more leniently . |
| 10 | The most familiar reason for this is that most reproduction is sexual : an individual has two parents , not one . |
| 11 | One reason for this was that all officers of the Associations were honorary and had other jobs which kept them busy . |
| 12 | An example of this is that each stitch pattern section ( A , B , C and so on ) , has a limit of approximately 16,000 bits . |
| 13 | A corollary of this is that such industries are far from simple to understand and hence they demand experts both to run them and to explain them to the general public , e.g. microelectronics , nuclear stations , oil refineries , etc . |
| 14 | The implication of this is that many mergers can be regarded as failures in the sense that they do not attain the gains in efficiency claimed as their justification . |
| 15 | The result of this is that most strikers are disqualified from receiving supplementary benefit during the first two weeks of a strike . |
| 16 | The great pity of this is that most pubs are old , yet the proper opportunity to celebrate this has already been squandered . |
| 17 | The implication of this is that any policy proposal for a particular industry can only be made after an investigation of not only the structure of the industry , but also of the objectives and conduct of the firms within it . |
| 18 | The corollary of this is that any receipts received or payments made in the current financial year which relate to accruals made in the last financial year , will not affect the current year 's profit figures . |
| 19 | The disadvantage of this is that some promoters underadvertise , underpromote , and undermarket the gig to try and put more pounds in their pockets by reducing their expenses . |
| 20 | It seems clear that one of the effects of this is that more people are fearful both for their own future and for that of the person who has died . |
| 21 | One consequence of this was that many stories were not really about events but merely reports or rewrites of speeches made by leading politicians at events . |
| 22 | The principle which would have to be established first of all is that each person in the world ( all those aged 21 or over , suggests Dr Grubb ) would have an equal share in man-made carbon dioxide emissions , regardless of whether he lived in a rich developed country or a poor one which produced hardly any carbon dioxide at all . |
| 23 | Perhaps most remarkable of all was that this system of government was based on a written Constitution , drawn up by a group of politicians at the end of the 18th century and only altered on rare occasions since ( there had been 19 Amendments to the Constitution by 1920 ) . |
| 24 | What excited him most of all was that these pieces , each so different , each showing a restless determination to experiment , all had the signature of Wyspianski . |
| 25 | The tragedy of 1914 was that neither side could accept this obvious compromise because neither could sell it to their own followers . |
| 26 | Very simply , the theory behind this is that any product has some characteristic which can be developed so as to make it unique in its class . |
| 27 | The problem with this is that many managers and other PC users have never received formal keyboard training . |
| 28 | The problem with this is that most people still want , at some stage in their lives , formal ( that is to say legal ) recognition of their commitment to one another . |
| 29 | Another modification introduced in 1992 was that any business which moved into new premises would inherit the transitional relief ( i.e. the phasing in allowance ) of the previous occupant . |
| 30 | The corollary to this is that few books that are too enjoyable , too funny , or too popular could possibly be ‘ classics ’ . |