Example sentences of "[det] is [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is because Japanese corporations place very little emphasis on merger as a mechanism of growth or diversification of business . |
| 2 | This is because frictional drag ( from a boot or a ski , say ) melts them locally to a thin film of liquid water . |
| 3 | This is because young dogs , from six months old , tend to need more exercise than other individuals . |
| 4 | This is because quantitative techniques are seen as more costly ( in terms of money , time and mental work load ) , more complex and ( perhaps wrongly ) as more inaccurate than judgmental methods . |
| 5 | This is because implicit in the calculation of the yield to maturity as the internal rate of return is the assumption that each coupon payment as it arises is reinvested at the internal rate of return . |
| 6 | This is because good control is reached at a much lower ground speed . |
| 7 | This is because Western religion has come from a Semitic origin where life was serious as befits a desert people . |
| 8 | This is because economic and monetary union will cause a very complex chain of reactions : the systemic changes will lead to policy changes , and both will condition behavioural changes in the economy , before arriving at the final impacts in terms of economic well-being ’ . |
| 9 | This is because economic loss can be of unforeseen proportions , can far exceed , in many cases the total contract value , and thus be a risk which it is for all practical purposes beyond the financial strength of most businessmen to assume , particularly if they were to accept such risks routinely in all their business dealings . |
| 10 | This is because part-time members of the force have only slight contact with regular policemen and women , and experience greater status incongruity as a result of the contrast between the responsibility held in their day-time employment and the more restricted range of their police duties . |
| 11 | This is because variable scribal usage is likely to be functional in some way , just as spoken variation is functional ( as suggested in chapter 2 ) , and the most immediately obvious function of an alphabetic writing system is to relate writing to speech-forms , however complicated this relationship may be . |
| 12 | This is because other techniques , by themselves , are either inadequate ( eg pump-and-treat ) , do not permanently solve the problem ( eg immobilisation or containment ) , or have the potential to be very expensive ( eg incineration ) . |
| 13 | This problem is , in practice , not too important because best execution would normally apply to mere counterparties only if they are private customers ( which perhaps should be required ) ; this is because other customers can waive it and it does not apply to market counterparties ( see page 29 below ) at all . |
| 14 | This is because other dealings as principal with the firm may technically not be investment business by the counterparty ; because the firm is an authorised person the own account exemption in para 17 of Sched 1 would normally apply . |
| 15 | This is because full-time students will only have to pay one fifth of the Personal Community Charge . |
| 16 | This is because reasonable exercise reduces the level of blood fats and increases the level of high-density lipoproteins that clear cholesterol out of the blood . |
| 17 | This is because metaphorical mappings , and hence readings , are ultimately constrained by what appear to be universal cognitive structures . |
| 18 | This is because low-pitched sounds have long wavelengths which can not resolve the difference between closely spaced objects . |
| 19 | This is because regular continuous aerobic exercise like brisk walking is a fat burning activity whereas start-stop anaerobic exercises like squash and tennis are carbohydrate burning activities . |
| 20 | This is because regular heroin use is likely to result in both physical addiction and a major psychological dependence , and these consequences would keep prevalence at a high level long after any drop in the level of social deprivation . |
| 21 | This is because slight frosting on the eyes covers up careless blending and matt lipsticks have often been too dry-looking . |
| 22 | This is because current connectionist networks must duplicate all the nodes and connections for each unit in the system in order to represent temporal aspects of the problem . |
| 23 | This is because multi-way nodes are represented via alternative ( brother ) pointers , and as new words are added , non-words are often introduced . |
| 24 | This is because certain newspapers thoughtlessly mentioned that some pet cats in California had been discovered to be suffering from the AIDS virus . |
| 25 | This is because certain instrumentation and connecting cables ( see section 9.5 ) are arranged to match these impedances ; 600Ο is the adopted standard in professional audio-frequency systems , 75Ο the standard in domestic television and 50Ο the standard in radio-frequency instrumentation . |
| 26 | This is because thick lithosphere will tend to be more resistant to the effects of heat conduction and penetrative magmatism . |
| 27 | This is because index-linked funds would automatically favour them over their smaller rivals . |
| 28 | It still represents a cost to the Exchequer and a loss of potential output , but it can be argued that it is not particularly distressing to the people concerned and , for the economy as a whole , it may actually result in a more efficient use of labour : this is because high short-run unemployment may be a reflection of greater mobility of labour between jobs and areas and consequently may result in the labour force being more suitably and productively employed . |
| 29 | This is because objective policies are linked to fear of , or alienism towards , people with disabilities . |
| 30 | This is because astronomical observations using the hardware can take place only at certain times of the year . |