Example sentences of "[det] [be] that [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 You might then wonder what the cutting of the hair had to do with it — well , one of the features of auto-immune diseases is that they cluster within individuals and sometimes within an individual 's family , and the reasons for that are that the immune responses that we have we inherit with our genes .
2 One consequence of this is that no systematic research programme has resulted from this approach .
3 Perhaps a telling comment on this is that a major reason for the recruitment of top , superannuated civil servants into business is that they know their way round the political labyrinth of Whitehall .
4 Naturally , the greater part of the volume of this room is within the roof space and a consequence of this is that a small pre-existing ventilation opening , which was sited high up below the eaves of the barn and is now glazed to form a window , has its sill at floor level .
5 The reason for this is that a large daggerboard helps with stability in lighter winds .
6 The result of this is that a direct comparison with the other regional data is not possible .
7 Of course , the implication of this is that a different measure is also a different concept .
8 The explanation for this is that an automatic car is not always immediately available and they are more expensive to produce .
9 The reason for this is that an express covenant as to one branch of the covenant implied by the word " demise " excludes the other branch on the principle that expressio unius est exclusio alterius ( the expression of one thing is the exclusion of another ) ( Miller v Emcer Products Ltd [ 1956 ] Ch 304 ) .
10 The main reason for this is that the simple plan and elevation of the original cathedral have become obscured by later work , for the cathedral was being continuously added to , altered and developed from the eleventh to the sixteenth century .
11 However , the consequence of doing this is that the current yield would then exhibit a saw-tooth pattern as shown in Fig. 5.2 .
12 The snag with this is that the suppressed feelings are still experienced internally rather than avoided or prevented .
13 The consequence of this is that the real wage level exceeds the equilibrium one so that there is , simultaneously , high real wages and unemployment .
14 Not surprisingly , one result of this is that the pyroclastic material erupted in a Surtseyan eruption is much more highly fragmented than that in a similar basaltic eruption taking place on land , and this in turn means that the deposits produced contain a much greater proportion of very small particles than their Strombolian counterparts .
15 What we should note from this is that the 10 per cent prevalence figure , which received considerable publicity during the Cleveland scandal and subsequently , includes a wide range of abuse apart from sexual intercourse .
16 One of the major problems with this is that the private benefits accruing to households or families who take up either family planning or conservation measures are often not clear — either as perceived to exist by households themselves or even as calculated by economic models .
17 One explanation for this is that the two bodies constituting Pluto were originally moons of Neptune , but that something tore them from the giant planet 's grasp — the converse of what is thought to have happened to Triton !
18 The reason for this is that the first layer atoms are shadowed by their neighbours along these principal axes and the projectile experiences a continuous potential that focuses it into a specular direction — ie θ = 2α .
19 The reasoning behind this is that the first 65 litres will contain any contaminates which might be present on the grape skins , but readers should not be alarmed because the wines must pass an analytical examination before being sold .
20 The implication of this is that the traditional view of the collapse of the working-class family under the impact of industrialisation , as Engels , for instance , suggested in The Condition of the Working Class in England , is misleading .
21 The result of this is that the syntactic analyser will not be able to select the correct part of speech for the compound .
22 What we mean by this is that the lexical sub-system we use for recognising printed words in reading may be different from the sub-system we use for producing printed words in writing .
23 One consequence of this is that the sharp rise in the proportion of young couples in the owner-occupied sector over the post-war period ( and the even greater number who aspire to this sector ) must have had some effect in reinforcing fertility decline in Britain in recent decades although , of course , many developed countries have also experienced declines over this period , so it would be naive to emphasize this ( or indeed any single cause ) as the sole or primary explanation .
24 The reason for this is that the long run incentive to exploit a conflict of interest may not exist .
25 This is that the National Health Service is administered through regional health authorities , consisting of a small body of people appointed by the secretary of state .
26 The reason for this is that the linguistic , social and educational environments of the two countries may be so different as to provide different opportunities for language learning .
27 A corollary of this is that the head office needs to have expert information and skills , needs to be an active participant in the formulation of strategies , and must therefore own a narrowly specialised core cluster of firmlets .
28 The message I draw from this is that the gay movement is not ultimately about the liberation of any particular sexuality but actually about the liberation of a whole set of relationships ; an affirmation of relationships which are sexual or non-sexual , relationships through which sexuality can be realized or transformed or denied or changed or just lived .
29 One result of this is that the pied flycatcher must be quick off the mark early in the season in order to get the most nutritious caterpillars .
30 The reason for this is that the outflowing rivers provide the sand that makes them good beaches .
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