Example sentences of "is [Wh adv] [noun sg] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 This is when scalp skin sheds excessively , leaving tiny flakes showing on hair and shoulders .
2 The biggest risk factor of all is an inherited predisposition , which is why life insurance salesmen run a mile when they hear that your dad died of a coronary at 35 .
3 One of the great mysteries is why consumer electronics products are so expensive in Britain
4 One of the great mysteries of our modern free-trading world is why consumer electronics products are so much more expensive in Britain ( and Europe generally ) than they are in the United States .
5 That is why power boat owner David Peaks opted for a five-door turbo diesel Mitsubishi Shogun — rival to the Range Rover — after a succession of diesel Land-Rovers .
6 ‘ This is why food packaging products can only be 50% recycled .
7 One particularly important example of such an interaction is where sickle cell anaemia is co-inherited with the benign condition hereditary persistence of fetal haemoglobin ( HPFH ) , in which levels of the fetal form of haemoglobin HbF do not fall as the patient grows .
8 This is where neutron activation analysis enables us to source them with certainty .
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