Example sentences of "[adj] is [conj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is clear is that Lady Grace , in her early twenties , led an adventurous life of which many of her successors today would be somewhat envious . |
| 2 | ‘ The sole reason for this is that Philips lighting have been unable to increase production to match our orders due to difficulties in obtaining glass for the lamps . |
| 3 | The reason for this is that UK per capita consumption of alcohol has been static from the late 1970s , as shown in Figure 5.2 . |
| 4 | The reason for this is that Germany 's huge trade surplus is overwhelmingly with the Community ( approx. 70% of it was with the EC , although in late 1991 , there has been a significant drop , albeit temporarily , in Germany 's surplus ) . |
| 5 | It 's a lot of money Well this is that Ian was making in the first place is n't it , product actually |
| 6 | The reason for this is that Field 's New Tribe is imbued with the rather vague mission of transmitting ‘ Western techniques ’ to traditional societies and although this opens the door to many fascinating details about the structures of culture contact , it is at a rather high level of generality for explanatory purposes and it seriously underplays the role of the classes responsible for capitalist expansionism . |
| 7 | This is that Basildon only swung 1.3 per cent to Labour ( and so stayed Tory ) because it has the highest Sun readership in the country ( half of all households there take it ) , whereas Hampstead fell to Glenda Jackson because it is top of the Guardian 's league ( 14 per cent of homes ) . |
| 8 | One thing , at any rate , would seem to be clear , and this is that Jesus , after his baptism in the Jordan , undergoes a significant change . |
| 9 | One of the reasons for this is that John Lee 's history and musical bent is just too weird to accommodate in their stories and theories . |
| 10 | The significance of all this is that Utah had already convinced themselves that test-tube fusion could be an economic bonanza of unimaginable magnitude , and the first shots in the skirmish for priority had already been fired in February with the accusations that Jones had pirated the Utah chemists ' work . |
| 11 | One possible conclusion from all this is that Edward 's legislative impulse was as likely a product of his contact with indigenous clergy as with contemporary popes and kings . |
| 12 | The difficulty with this is that Althusser ( and Engels ) are convincingly describing a change in problematic , perhaps even a paradigm shift , but it is not clear that what went on before is contrastable as ideology , as non-science . |
| 13 | Erm the reason for this is that Luton er is not an attractive proposition on a long term basis but it anti er and that , that is largely for an environmental point of view of the fact that it will also not provide an awful lot of additional capacity but it is a highly economic airport from the point of view of the number of er the cost required to expand it er further er passenger and facilities they already have designs for the extension of the facilities in that airport and I am concerned that er delays in the planning process for terminal three er or for any other alternatives in the South East or for making alternative arrangements elsewhere in the country . |
| 14 | Maybe this is because Wodehouse 's country house settings were always a never-never land which defy visual translation , whereas his view of America , however far he sent up his adopted country , had closer links with reality . |
| 15 | This is because Britain could not have defended herself in the Cold War order , and the common enemy demanded common action . |
| 16 | He explains : ‘ This is because Alex Ferguson helped me on my way in football when I was 14 years old , and taught me most of the things I took with me from Aberdeen . ’ |
| 17 | This is because February is a hot summer month in that country and people go away on holiday . |
| 18 | This is because Bill left school at fourteen years of age in the ‘ bad old days ’ and has had a pretty varied career . |
| 19 | But the opposition says there are no spending commitments and no tough action ; Shadow Environment Secretary , Brian Gould says this is because Chris Patten lost the crucial battles in Cabinet . |
| 20 | And it it it 's called the fog index but the thing that 's interesting about it is that I 've got , I 've got some interesting examples of fog indexes erm and you 'll get people like Churchill who sometimes made speeches and their fog index is quite small you 're going to use this you know example and they might have a fog , fog index that 's fine and what Anne and I are talking about with say something like the Telegraph or the Times or whatever , might have a fog index that people but this is because Churchill was very clear , very concise and going back to the original point about , or some of the original points about this , and I was mak raising these issues earlier this evening one of the great sadnesses that I have is that , is that when I first went into journalism the tabloids as we call them were incredibly well written beautifully styled , well researched and okay they might have been punchier and shorter and everything else , compared to the turning up the er the , the Times or whatever , but they were well written and you might have had , if you can put the fog index test , test on it you might have had a fog index of say six or seven compared to eleven on the Telegraph story , but it was still full of clarity like to read . |
| 21 | Professor Salibi reasons this is because Nebuchanezzar in 586 BC put an end to this Jewish enclave in lands that eventually were to become the heartland of Mohammed the Prophet . |
| 22 | ‘ I take it all this is because James is not the father ? ’ |
| 23 | This is because Culpitt endeavours not only to provide some useful insights into such thorny issues as welfare rights and obligations as well as the concept of need ( which should be read in conjunction with Doyal and Gough 's ( 1991 ) recent analysis ) but also to chart the way in which the management of welfare has been transformed as a result of the drift towards privatization and the emerging emphasis on the purchase rather than the provision of welfare in the public sphere . |
| 24 | This is because Karnataka does not have to replace nuclear plants with alternative power sources , where the least environmentally damaging happens to be most expensive . |
| 25 | This is because Petipa was not interested in male dance and often left the danseur to arrange his own brief solo . |
| 26 | This is because Mrs. Gilmour will be taking the petition along to the district council offices the following day . |
| 27 | This is because ScottishPower repurchased £142 million of government debt last November , in the light of falling interest rates . |
| 28 | This is because MouseMan Cordless has its roller ball sited further forward , virtually under one 's forefinger and it took a bit of time getting used to , as did a small but perceptible response lag . |
| 29 | This is because St James 's Church was not listed as a building of architectural or historic interest after it was declared redundant and thus the cost of the building work would attract Value Added Tax at the standard rate . |
| 30 | This is because UCTA 1977 provides the courts with a statutory weapon for controlling exclusion clauses in general ( see p65 ) . |