Example sentences of "this is [adv] [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is partly because molecular electronic spectra are very different from the line-spectra of atoms , consisting in most cases of broad bands , and partly because the spectra are usually very complicated , so that assignment is often impossible . |
| 2 | This is partly because private hospitals select simpler cases but may also reflect the lack of incentives to reduce admissions and length of stay in public hospitals and the absence of adequate community care for the impoverished populations which tend to use them . |
| 3 | This is partly because Labour has picked up a mood of unease about the city among its residents , fearful of Frankfurt taking over its role as Europe 's financial capital , and jealous of Paris 's self-confidence and infrastructure . |
| 4 | This is partly because single status at younger ages appears to have been consistently even more lethal for men than for women . |
| 5 | This is partly because structuralist poetics are part of a wider semiological venture , and partly because any distinctiveness ascribed to literature in structuralist thinking takes it right back to linguistics ; for the element that constitutes ‘ literature 's Being ’ and its ‘ very world ’ ( Barthes 1970 ) is simply language itself . |
| 6 | A similar long bridge crosses the Taw at Barnstaple , but this is neither as long nor as irregular as the Bideford bridge , and has been subject to more extensive alteration . |
| 7 | This is not because young women are status conscious . |
| 8 | It was assumed that schools would be using the materials and theme for about twelve periods a week for six weeks , as Miss Garnett noted : " This is probably as long as the steam stays in a theme for this age , and nobody should feel embarrassed about pulling out of it quicker if it seems right to do so " ( Leicester/Leicestershire Curriculum Development Project 1970 : I ) . |
| 9 | If strong stemming does not seem to introduce too much noise in reference retrieval searching this is probably because typical searches include , explicitly or implicitly , at least three words and often more . |
| 10 | This is probably because small birds need less food , ( Condition refers to stored energy , in the form of fat deposits ; Petrie used a complicated measure of condition to get rid of the effects of size alone . |
| 11 | This is largely because human readers use an understanding of the text that can guide the reading process . |
| 12 | This is invariably as true of urban locations selling cultural capital with voodoo economics as it is of declining industrial regions of manufacturing industry ( Harvey , 1989 ) . |
| 13 | This is all because middle-class people , the polls say , want to see the rich suffer first . |