Example sentences of "[prep] this be that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is strange about this is that phonemes are no more than elements of meaning but kinship terms also represent real relationships lived by people . |
| 2 | The reason for this is that Field 's New Tribe is imbued with the rather vague mission of transmitting ‘ Western techniques ’ to traditional societies and although this opens the door to many fascinating details about the structures of culture contact , it is at a rather high level of generality for explanatory purposes and it seriously underplays the role of the classes responsible for capitalist expansionism . |
| 3 | The underlying reason for this is that statutes do not really have ‘ corners ’ in the neat way postulated by theory . |
| 4 | The reason for this is that women are forced to carry on the main productive activity by themselves because of their subjection . |
| 5 | One reason for this is that women ( and men , of course ) are often faced with the problem of negotiating contradictory or conflicting conceptions of themselves . |
| 6 | The reason for this is that UK per capita consumption of alcohol has been static from the late 1970s , as shown in Figure 5.2 . |
| 7 | Among the reasons for this is that girls seem to volunteer more readily for singing and the recruitment of boys is not given priority . |
| 8 | The reason for this is that ramparts are normally of dump construction , consisting of spoil from the ditches cast inwards to form the bank . |
| 9 | The reason for this is that movables can be transferred by delivery free of 1% stamp duty . |
| 10 | The reason for this is that sperm production takes place at a temperature a couple of degrees lower than body temperature , so the process has to take place outside the body to function properly . |
| 11 | The reason for this is that Germany 's huge trade surplus is overwhelmingly with the Community ( approx. 70% of it was with the EC , although in late 1991 , there has been a significant drop , albeit temporarily , in Germany 's surplus ) . |
| 12 | ‘ The sole reason for this is that Philips lighting have been unable to increase production to match our orders due to difficulties in obtaining glass for the lamps . |
| 13 | The reason for this is that students are not a homogeneous category . |
| 14 | Erm the reason for this is that Luton er is not an attractive proposition on a long term basis but it anti er and that , that is largely for an environmental point of view of the fact that it will also not provide an awful lot of additional capacity but it is a highly economic airport from the point of view of the number of er the cost required to expand it er further er passenger and facilities they already have designs for the extension of the facilities in that airport and I am concerned that er delays in the planning process for terminal three er or for any other alternatives in the South East or for making alternative arrangements elsewhere in the country . |
| 15 | One of the reasons for this is that John Lee 's history and musical bent is just too weird to accommodate in their stories and theories . |
| 16 | The reason for this is that Goblins , with their leadership of only 5 , are very fragile , which means they are virtually certain to fail any break or psychology test they have to take . |
| 17 | Our explanation for this was that unions might feel they had less control over the conditions of indirectly employed temporary workers than over the conditions of those who are directly employed . |
| 18 | The reason for this was that Angela was a very neat , spruce and tidy little person . |
| 19 | The chief reason for this was that people were living longer . |
| 20 | The result of this is that males have no idea as to whether or not they are the father of the offspring they raise . |
| 21 | A consequence of this is that women with undiagnosed non-insulin dependent diabetes , which is potentially as risky for the pregnancy as insulin dependent diabetes , are lumped together with women who have abnormalities of glucose tolerance that are trivial so far as the index pregnancy is concerned . |
| 22 | The consequence of this is that women are feared because they are seen to be sexually aggressive , and relations with men are spoiled because a close tie to them , which might otherwise constitute a conflict-free alternative nevertheless connotes a parallel threat of passive dependency . |
| 23 | The clearest manifestation of this is that institutions at all levels have to compete with one another . |
| 24 | An extension of this is that people do not like being insulted . |
| 25 | Again , we see , that one of the very important truths that comes out of this is that people matter to God . |
| 26 | The implication of this is that dividends do not carry significant new information , merely a confirmation of present conditions which are already known from other sources of information . |
| 27 | The irony of this was that Galbraith 's working title for the book was Why People Are Poor . |
| 28 | One consequence of this was that IBM Deutschland , IBM France and IBM UK were all in Europe 's top 100 companies by sales in 1985 ; together these three IBM subsidiaries had sales of nearly $16 billion — about 30 per cent of IBM 's world sales . |
| 29 | One problem with this is that comparisons have a tendency to set up one group covertly as the norm ; in the case of sex , it is men who are the norm . |
| 30 | The difficulty with this is that Althusser ( and Engels ) are convincingly describing a change in problematic , perhaps even a paradigm shift , but it is not clear that what went on before is contrastable as ideology , as non-science . |