Example sentences of "this be [subord] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is because four world boxing associations sanction championship fights in 17 weight divisions — making 68 titles in all . |
| 2 | This is because each individual brings a different mix of strengths and weaknesses , experiences and perceptions . |
| 3 | This is because each hair consists of a sharp , hollow spine , the walls of which contain silica , making them glass-like and brittle . |
| 4 | This is because each program in the category is content-free , highly versatile , limited in practice only by the user 's imagination . |
| 5 | This is because each agency has to fight for its share of the overall intelligence budget and in the process exaggerates and distorts its reports so as to pander to the whims of those who hold the purse-strings . |
| 6 | This is because Japanese corporations place very little emphasis on merger as a mechanism of growth or diversification of business . |
| 7 | This is because frictional drag ( from a boot or a ski , say ) melts them locally to a thin film of liquid water . |
| 8 | This is because young dogs , from six months old , tend to need more exercise than other individuals . |
| 9 | This is because quantitative techniques are seen as more costly ( in terms of money , time and mental work load ) , more complex and ( perhaps wrongly ) as more inaccurate than judgmental methods . |
| 10 | This is because such inferences often arise wherever features of the context do not actually block them , with the result that they can be easily confused with the permanent aspects of the semantics of the expressions involved . |
| 11 | This is because such bigotry and violence are the result not of being too religious , but of not being religious enough , of superficiality , of mistaken ideas about what religion is about . |
| 12 | This is because such schemes are taking a long time to get off the ground and because employers generally recruit from non-local networks ( see also Ladbury and Mira-Smith in this volume ) . |
| 13 | This is because such households would find themselves holding more money on average to finance the same total value of transactions . |
| 14 | Although all denominations within Christian and other churches have provided a measure of religious service for many people , it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that this is because such people have been unable to find an acceptable alternative . |
| 15 | This is because many compounds used in treating diseases have an adverse effect on the gills from which they never recover . |
| 16 | This is because many children want to talk about the subject but can not find an adult in whom to confide or who is willing to talk about it . |
| 17 | This is because good control is reached at a much lower ground speed . |
| 18 | This is because Western religion has come from a Semitic origin where life was serious as befits a desert people . |
| 19 | This is because economic loss can be of unforeseen proportions , can far exceed , in many cases the total contract value , and thus be a risk which it is for all practical purposes beyond the financial strength of most businessmen to assume , particularly if they were to accept such risks routinely in all their business dealings . |
| 20 | This is because part-time members of the force have only slight contact with regular policemen and women , and experience greater status incongruity as a result of the contrast between the responsibility held in their day-time employment and the more restricted range of their police duties . |
| 21 | This problem is , in practice , not too important because best execution would normally apply to mere counterparties only if they are private customers ( which perhaps should be required ) ; this is because other customers can waive it and it does not apply to market counterparties ( see page 29 below ) at all . |
| 22 | This is because other dealings as principal with the firm may technically not be investment business by the counterparty ; because the firm is an authorised person the own account exemption in para 17 of Sched 1 would normally apply . |
| 23 | This is because other techniques , by themselves , are either inadequate ( eg pump-and-treat ) , do not permanently solve the problem ( eg immobilisation or containment ) , or have the potential to be very expensive ( eg incineration ) . |
| 24 | This is because all behaviours , spoken and unspoken , are overt and manifest . |
| 25 | This is because full-time students will only have to pay one fifth of the Personal Community Charge . |
| 26 | This is because reasonable exercise reduces the level of blood fats and increases the level of high-density lipoproteins that clear cholesterol out of the blood . |
| 27 | This is because metaphorical mappings , and hence readings , are ultimately constrained by what appear to be universal cognitive structures . |
| 28 | This is because low-pitched sounds have long wavelengths which can not resolve the difference between closely spaced objects . |
| 29 | This is because regular heroin use is likely to result in both physical addiction and a major psychological dependence , and these consequences would keep prevalence at a high level long after any drop in the level of social deprivation . |
| 30 | This is because that kind of approach is aimed at conduct which is explicitly conspiratorial . |