Example sentences of "[det] is [conj] [pers pn] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is unless he exceeds the terms of the licence or the plaintiff has legally revoked the licence . |
| 2 | The , the point I 'm raising with this is that he does seem , in that particular piece , he does quite strongly , to me anyway , that that individuation is still very strong |
| 3 | The irony of it is this is that he has done a lot , he gave ten thousand |
| 4 | What he means by this is that he wants to see the thing in loan committee , damn the company 's leverage , and damn the balance-of-payments problems in the Philippines , period . |
| 5 | What 's good about this is that it does n't take too much time . |
| 6 | On a portable , the justification for this is that it reduces the weight , but the BJ-200 is n't a portable . |
| 7 | The advantage of this is that it enables us to start focusing on content . |
| 8 | The disadvantage of this is that it creates all the lingering resentment and hostility of ‘ win/lose ’ situation . |
| 9 | One of the most useful benefits of this is that it allows you to create long filenames . |
| 10 | The weakness of this is that it fails to view the implications of the spending when it makes its impact but only when the spending actually takes place . |
| 11 | The principal justification offered for this is that it triggers discussion between the police and organisers , and prevents demonstrators from springing surprises on the police . |
| 12 | The difficulty with this is that it makes the question of A's liability to C turn on what may be a purely technical contravention of the law by A which is of no real concern to C. Further , there are uncertainties in the meaning of ‘ unlawful ’ for this purpose . |
| 13 | One argument advanced for this is that it makes no sense to include mortality data in a formula for resource allocation as dead people make no use of health services . |
| 14 | The reason for this is that it permits buyers to set aside a bad bargain following the seller 's breach of condition where only slight consequences have ensued . |
| 15 | This is after he 's filled with the Holy Spirit . |
| 16 | This is because it does not develop ordinary vertebrae , but contains instead a central rod of cartilage . |
| 17 | This is because it does not depend on the source from which the language as an object is drawn but on the learners ' engagement with it . |
| 18 | This is because it hopes to anticipate what you want next . |
| 19 | To some extent , this is because it enables us to indulge in a form of mental shorthand which is convenient , if unimaginative , for communicating with others . |
| 20 | This is because it assumes that only one of the candidates in each position is correct , so the assignment of scores to words has to be delayed until the maximum for any given position is known . |
| 21 | Indeed , Ross thinks the moral philosopher must take the deliverances of common morality as his basic data ( as Moore , in spite of his much proclaimed faith in ‘ common sense ’ did not ) though this is because it rests on intuitions of necessary truth . |
| 22 | If western free-market fundamentalism has been faintly relaxed in the west , this is because it has been intensified in its export version . |
| 23 | This is because it has been replaced by more suitable roads which have been adapted to the continually changing pattern of communications and settlement development . |
| 24 | We assume that this is because it has not known what role to play . |
| 25 | This is because it has been assumed ( e.g. by Argyle and Cook , 1976 ) that monitoring the behaviour of a listener involves a certain amount of attention and often increases the speaker 's level of arousal . |
| 26 | This is because it carries out a unique function within the nuclear industry : it tries to deal with the problems left over at the end . |
| 27 | This is because it knows how desperately it is threatened by this disease . |
| 28 | This is because it stands in a position closer to totally autonomous behaviour ( at the top ) than the others . |
| 29 | This is because he rejects social class differences and class-based theories such as anomie as explanations of crime — partly because of their ‘ strain ’ assumption , and partly because his data ( which use sources other than ‘ official ’ ones ) fail to support the existence of a class differential . |
| 30 | This is because he has recently practised safety procedures for almost every conceivable emergency , and they are therefore fresh in his mind . |