Example sentences of "this be [conj] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem with this is that many managers and other PC users have never received formal keyboard training . |
| 2 | The implication of this is that many mergers can be regarded as failures in the sense that they do not attain the gains in efficiency claimed as their justification . |
| 3 | The prime reason for this is that such warehouses have become machines and will only operate correctly if the logic for their function has been meticulously thought out , checked and rechecked . |
| 4 | A corollary of this is that such industries are far from simple to understand and hence they demand experts both to run them and to explain them to the general public , e.g. microelectronics , nuclear stations , oil refineries , etc . |
| 5 | The implication of all this is that such places had perhaps been important as estates or administrative centres as well as having marketing functions long before late Saxon times and thus could be developed into true towns fairly easily . |
| 6 | The corollary of this is that any receipts received or payments made in the current financial year which relate to accruals made in the last financial year , will not affect the current year 's profit figures . |
| 7 | The reason for this is that few localities contain populations which closely replicate the national profile and even fewer record rates of change similar to the nation as a whole . |
| 8 | The corollary to this is that few books that are too enjoyable , too funny , or too popular could possibly be ‘ classics ’ . |
| 9 | The result of this is that most strikers are disqualified from receiving supplementary benefit during the first two weeks of a strike . |
| 10 | The great pity of this is that most pubs are old , yet the proper opportunity to celebrate this has already been squandered . |
| 11 | One reply to this is that most offences of bad driving have the potential to cause death or serious injury ; and that the North Committee 's proposals undervalue the element of endangerment where no harm occurs rather than over -value the resulting harm where it does occur . |
| 12 | One reason for this is that more women are first offenders , who are generally treated more leniently . |
| 13 | The reason suggested for this is that these girls feel that they should be able to cope with their pregnancy and problems on their own instead of sharing them within the unit , as most other girls do . |
| 14 | One reason for this is that older workers tend to lack certification for skill even if they have been acquired . |
| 15 | The disadvantage of this is that some promoters underadvertise , underpromote , and undermarket the gig to try and put more pounds in their pockets by reducing their expenses . |
| 16 | The evidence for this is that some scarps cut across several sizeable craters , whereas others are cut by sizeable craters , indicating that there are scarps which are older than appreciable numbers of sizeable craters , whereas others are much younger . |
| 17 | This is because Japanese corporations place very little emphasis on merger as a mechanism of growth or diversification of business . |
| 18 | This is because young dogs , from six months old , tend to need more exercise than other individuals . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | This is because such households would find themselves holding more money on average to finance the same total value of transactions . |
| 23 | This is because many compounds used in treating diseases have an adverse effect on the gills from which they never recover . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 ) . |
| 29 | This is because all behaviours , spoken and unspoken , are overt and manifest . |
| 30 | This is because full-time students will only have to pay one fifth of the Personal Community Charge . |