Example sentences of "for this [adj] [noun] [be] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chomsky 's explanation for this apparent contradiction is that , during the process of production , grammatical knowledge is imperfectly translated into speech because of memory constraints and fluctuating attention . |
| 2 | The nemesis for this pure empiricism is that some ‘ megatrends ’ may be greatly exaggerated ; the outcome of some social and political conflicts may be wrongly estimated and some ‘ megatrends ’ may be omitted altogether , if they do not happen to slot into the chosen classification system . |
| 3 | As she soon discovered , the explanation for this unseemly merriment was that when the priest directing the operations had solemnly inquired how the sick patient was , the child had irreverently blurted out : ‘ I am bursting , let me out , I want to pee . ’ |
| 4 | Another reason for this special approach is that the employer does not pay a premium for freedom from competition from his employee . |
| 5 | The justification for this secret diplomacy was that a loud voice would not have produced better results . |
| 6 | ‘ The problem for this Tory government is that their ideology is out of phase with the demands of ecology . ’ |
| 7 | What he calls the ‘ fancy explanation ’ for this architectural love is that he was baptised in a Romanesque font in the Dorset village of Stoke Abbot , but the reality is that as a student at Durham he was profoundly influenced by the majestic presence of the cathedral : |
| 8 | The reason for the need for this rigorous honesty is that a continuing sense of guilt and remorse will reduce the sense of self-worth and well-being . |
| 9 | The reason for this lenient approach is that the court will not want to undermine the statutory regulations which are often designed to protect workmen from the consequences of their own carelessness . |
| 10 | The second reason for this relative complexity is that , as we have already noticed , given lexical items do not necessarily belong to the same sets as in ‘ standard ’ English . |
| 11 | One of the explanations for this unexpected result is that the colon specific antigens detected by ELISA and those detected by this ADCC assay may be different , and those detected by ADCC might be increased by treatment with IFN-γ . |