Example sentences of "[prep] this is [that] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the most surprising fact about this is that all these events took place during the deposition of a single graptolite zone . |
| 2 | No , all that 's strange about this is that those two ever came to touch hands at any point . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Genetically speaking , the reason for this is that all the cells except the sex cells in a wolf 's body have the same genes , while , as for the sex cells , all the genes have an equal chance of being in each one of them . |
| 5 | The rationale for this is that all the equations of the model are linear and so we would expect the solution to be linear . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | One reason for this is that many grammatical elements are themselves bearers of meaning — this is true , for instance , of the past tense affix — ed , and the plural affix — s . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | One reason for this is that more women are first offenders , who are generally treated more leniently . |
| 14 | The most familiar reason for this is that most reproduction is sexual : an individual has two parents , not one . |
| 15 | An example of this is that each stitch pattern section ( A , B , C and so on ) , has a limit of approximately 16,000 bits . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The physical effect of this is that all test particles which fall into the non-scalar curvature singularity feel infinite tidal forces , but observers can move arbitrarily close to the singularity on other curves and feel no untoward effects . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The great pity of this is that most pubs are old , yet the proper opportunity to celebrate this has already been squandered . |
| 20 | The result of this is that most strikers are disqualified from receiving supplementary benefit during the first two weeks of a strike . |
| 21 | Of course , if you have even a distant eye on a whole series of books featuring one detective ( and the late Margery Allingham once pointed out to me that the advantage of this is that half your potential readers want to read you and half want to read about your sleuth ) , then you are likely to land in difficulties if you hit on , say , a Victorian governess who happens to deal in the course of her scholastic career with as many as twenty or thirty " orrible murders . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | One outcome of this is that those on low incomes either reduce the amount they eat , or eat food of lower nutritional value , which particularly affects growing children . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The problem with this is that many managers and other PC users have never received formal keyboard training . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | A further suggestion that flows from this is that such evolutionary considerations lend support to a competing grammatical paradigm — that of Montague grammar . |