Example sentences of "this [adv] [vb -s] [Wh adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this also explains why the music of the counterculture could be so easily co-opted and its radical implications defused . |
| 2 | I have noticed that , given the opportunity , males of several different species are quite happy to make a meal of eggs and fry , and this probably explains why the females are generally extremely hostile to any approach near their family . |
| 3 | Zinc ( 13 µM ) in gastric juice has not been measured previously , but most zinc is only weakly bound to albumin in plasma and this probably explains why the zinc concentrations in gastric juice are higher relative to copper . |
| 4 | This partly explains why the review took the time it did , since the computer can spend nearly four days running a full set of figures . |
| 5 | This neatly explains why the curriculum proposals appear so simplistic and old-fashioned and constructed in apparent disregard of the professional approach of teachers , inspectors and academics , for they read the sequence in a forwards direction , each step being derived logically from the one before . |