Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] be [conj] they [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Teachers commonly believe that the reason they are so tired is that they have so much to do .
2 She reckons the real reason the Japanese are so successful is that they have always incorporated a spiritual approach in business .
3 One reason for them being so common is that they reproduce at a high rate , and their high reproduction rate is one of the main topics of this chapter .
4 What is less certain is whether they have been , or will be , offset by corresponding gains .
5 But with the coming of modernity proper , that is with industrialisation , what made the philosophies so potent was that they became embodied as a functional rationality .
6 The most immediate is that they take up oxygen from water to support their respiration and produce carbon dioxide .
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