Example sentences of "[prep] this is [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What 's even more special about this is that Lindsey 's back with us too . ’ |
| 2 | The most obvious reason for this is that neuro-science has not yet reached the point where it is possible to describe language as a direct manifestation of underlying physiological of neurological states . |
| 3 | The major reason for this is that exchange markets appear to be fairly volatile , and therefore governments have required large reserves of foreign currencies to moderate unwanted fluctuations in the exchange value of their currencies . |
| 4 | A main reason for this is that preparation for housewifery is intermingled with socialization for the feminine gender role in the wider sense . |
| 5 | One reason for this is that reading development is normally closely related to children 's knowledge of spoken language . |
| 6 | A sufficient reason for this is that M may be an adjective or a verb , neither of which would normally be considered as having a referent . |
| 7 | One justification for this is that gravity is so weak that quantum gravitational effects would be large only at particle energies way beyond those in any particle accelerator . |
| 8 | Part of the explanation for this is that government spending tends to be planned over a number of years ( e.g. hospitals , schools , and other capital expenditures take several years to complete , and governments are reluctant to dismiss teachers , policemen , and other employees for short-term economic reasons ) ; consequently such expenditure tends to be fairly inflexible , especially downwards , in the short run . |
| 9 | A straightforward explanation for this is that inflation affects all voters whereas unemployment tends to be heavily concentrated on ( as far as the UK is concerned ) areas not noted for extensive Conservative support . |
| 10 | The reason for this is that horse and donkey chromosomes are dissimilar and almost completely unable to pair up . |
| 11 | The rationale for this is that intervention can not replace natural developmental processes , but only complement them ; it is therefore necessary to ensure that structured attempts at intervention and ‘ natural developmental processes ’ are working in unison . |
| 12 | The main reason for this is that extraction of many types of information from corpora usually pre-supposes the capability to automatically analyse the raw text in various ways . |
| 13 | My reason or excuse for this is that interest in scepticism has revived . |
| 14 | ( As explained in the last chapter , examples used to illustrate intonation transcription are usually given in spelling form , and you will notice that no punctuation is used ; the reason for this is that intonation and stress are the vocal equivalents of written punctuation , so that when these are transcribed it would be unnecessary or even confusing to include punctuation as well . ) |
| 15 | Dutch department stores tend to be disappointing — De Bijenkorf ( 'The Beehive' ) is the best — for this is another sphere of Dutch life in which smallness wins . |
| 16 | One implication of this is that evaluation procedures are usually better developed in-house than bought in from other institutions . |
| 17 | The moral of this is that rationality , at least as narrowly defined , does not ‘ add-up ’ . |
| 18 | Computers in general have undoubtedly allowed us more dive time , but a consequence of this is that ascent speeds are now critical . |
| 19 | The advantage of this is that space is used economically . |
| 20 | The effect of this is that equity shares , or rights to them , can be allotted as subscribers ' shares , bonus shares or pursuant to an employees ' share scheme without first offering pre-emptive rights . |
| 21 | The implication of this is that context does not function to exclude candidates from the cohort . |
| 22 | The advantage of this is that teacher and child both know what the task is and what must be done to achieve success . |
| 23 | A possible explanation of this is that Ecgberht was indeed regarded as Ealhmund 's heir and that Ealhmund in turn inherited from King Ecgberht of Kent a local overlordship of south-eastern England which in varying forms had been a recurring feature of historical development in the area since the time of Aethelberht , son of Eormenric . |
| 24 | The point of all of this is that Niki is an excellent self-publicist and a determined mystifier . |
| 25 | The likely consequence of this is that project after project will fail to work because you have used one or more faulty or otherwise unsuitable components . |
| 26 | The consequence of this is that Modernism too must be a form of romantic anti-capitalism , and as such one-sided and vulnerable . |
| 27 | The advantage of this is that processing is simpler and more rapid . |
| 28 | What their parents would have made of this is another matter . |
| 29 | The difficulty with this is that theory and observation are unbalanced . |
| 30 | Well I would the only thing I can say in this is this cash , I know they said they 'd get it got in the piggy bank before the poll tax , but as they keep shouting about they 've got to put the poll tax up , they 've got no money , they they 're putting the staff off and one thing and another . |