Example sentences of "[pron] [is] [conj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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61 It is because carbon-based molecules are necessary for the kind of life that we find on Earth , and because those molecules are of necessity complex , that life itself is fragile .
62 It is because that fear exists that some home owners know perfectly well that they have the Government over a barrel .
63 It is because primary schools are difficult to classify in any but the most general terms that the phrase ‘ mixed methods ’ is used to describe the practices found in the great majority of them .
64 It is because such equalities are therefore not worth investigation ( they are all false ! ) that a totally different interpretation is usually attached to the statement
65 It is because such interfaces are believed to be dangerous that men act as they do in ritual situations .
66 It is because young people of both sexes are increasingly seeking work on the mainland , instead of participating in the precarious agricultural island economy as their elders continue to do .
67 Perhaps it is because six-time major-winner Lee Trevino shares a background with his caddie Willie Aitchison that the two have developed such a close relationship over the years .
68 This does not seem to be because the UK has more crime , or more serious crime , than comparable countries ; rather it is because more offenders are sent to custody , and for longer periods , in the UK than elsewhere .
69 ‘ We did n't get the rub of the green and felt we deserved something , but we got zilch and I think it is because this Villa side are so good .
70 It is because this garret is at the very heart of Government .
71 However if the glucose is maintained high , in other words if the stimulus is sustained , what we see is a succession of depolarizing spikes , and the reason we see it is because this elevation of free calcium , not only leads to a insulin secretion , it also leads to the opening of calcium activated K channels which tend to hyperpolarize the membrane .
72 It is because this reaction is directed outwards against the invading motion that the phantasms are experienced as though they were the external objects which initially caused them .
73 It is because those Governments have been arguing for coal utilisation while our Government have sat on their hands wanting to take a swipe at miners and their communities .
74 Where the status of older people is low , it is because these attitudes determine that it will be low , not because it is a natural consequence of the ageing process .
75 It is because these qualities are so abundantly visible in photography today that the medium has some claim on our attention : photography still has much to tell us about the way the world looks and the experience of living in it .
76 It is because these principles have been lost that much modern architecture is criticized : there is no link with or respect for Nature .
77 It is because evil spirits do not fit — have no logical place or space — into the modern scientific world-view .
78 It is because organisational members see their authority as legitimate that they are prepared to obey .
79 If one seeks to understand the way in which politics is gradually dragged into the gutter , it is because hon. Members come out with such a simplistic approach .
80 ( It is because Christian feminists see such an incongruity that they want to adapt or reinterpret the myth . )
81 It is because human societies pursue values that their study falls within the province of history rather than biology .
82 Well if you save tax yes it is or bad planning try to keep it as broad as we possibly can .
83 If this sort of account is true to the facts , then it is a consideration against any factual connection of the type Minsky envisaged between conscious access and ‘ reprogramming or debugging ’ , at least it is if lower-level translations normally exist as ( undebuggable ) compilations .
84 It is not worthwhile retrieving the matched word strings themselves if the number of matches is too large , but it is if this number is within a reasonable limit .
85 ‘ If I look pale as a lily , 't is because fresh air is too rarely on the menu .
86 However , the basic thing for me is that most piano music is far more than something which is tailor-made for a certain instrument .
87 What mystifies me is that any woman could be attracted to you at all .
88 All that matters to me is that this technology will save Carly 's life . ’
89 The question before me is whether these assignments did have their intended effect for compensation purposes .
90 Consequently , all that embryology tells us is that both areas are part of the neocortex .
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