Example sentences of "this [be] [subord] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would this be because she had something to hide , he wondered , or was she inhibited by her clerical top brass . |
| 2 | This is unless he exceeds the terms of the licence or the plaintiff has legally revoked the licence . |
| 3 | This is after he 's filled with the Holy Spirit . |
| 4 | Now eighteen months ago we had three hundred and , it was April , the report in April nineteen ninety two there were three hundred and sixty five I think it was places that were vacant in our homes and this is before we started the refurbishment . |
| 5 | This is before anybody gets any ideas at all . |
| 6 | Erm I du n no this is somebody else 's paper so This is before I had a I worked it out as I I th I thought it 'd work out a three- four-five triangle . |
| 7 | This is before I left , I I , I have n't done . |
| 8 | This is before you 've got the |
| 9 | this is before you 've got the piano . |
| 10 | This is before you move on to environmental impact , the feeling of the community , and what the planners think : considerations whose complexity rises exponentially with the size and prominence of a site , and the number of bodies who have interests in the exercise . |
| 11 | This is until you get going and can afford to have your own labels printed . |
| 12 | This is because somebody wearing the Star Wars character 's outfit officially opened it recently , and also because it is a huge black obelisk which sucks the sun out of the sky . |
| 13 | This is because we try to move our eyes along the name , whereas the sign itself remains still . |
| 14 | It seems incredible to us today that Carey should have had such difficulty in convincing christians of the necessity of sharing the Gospel with ‘ the heathen ’ , but this is because we take for granted the radical influence his views have had upon our modern view of mission . |
| 15 | This is because we hope to establish an informality that we feel will be suitable here , even if it might be inappropriate in degree coursework , in a PhD thesis or in a research monograph . |
| 16 | This is because we need to justify our action , though its real basis is salus populi suprema lex . ’ |
| 17 | This is because we have fairly strong evidence from ancient Egyptian art , showing that cats had been taken under human control by that period . |
| 18 | I think this is because we have our own distinct identity and proper base . |
| 19 | This is because we understand that you will be anxious to have your claim resolved . |
| 20 | This is because we believe the many aspects of manpower control essential in today 's climate can not be covered in detail in a relatively short presentation . |
| 21 | This is because they relied on features common to the whole of the lower class ( restricted legitimate opportunities ) ; these were very common , crime relatively rare . |
| 22 | Usually this is because they got ready before the rain started falling and are unable to see that they are not going to stay up unless they wait until the shower has passed . |
| 23 | This is because they require information on future births and migration , for which accurate predictions at a local level are always difficult , and because the ancillary information available will also be less detailed . |
| 24 | This is because they try to get up before their body weight is over their feet . |
| 25 | Privately owned papers which are unprofitable do exist , but this is because they receive backing for other purposes — political , in most cases . |
| 26 | This is because they reach the bloodstream via the lungs and skin and work systemically , influencing the body as a whole . |
| 27 | The reason Chandler can get away with this is because they 've chosen to use a slotted headstock with side-mounted Kluson machines , and that 's what gives the strings the necessary angle to stop them jumping out of the nut slots . |
| 28 | THis is because they contain special matting agents , which cause the varnishes to dry with an irregular surface , so that light is reflected at random angles . |
| 29 | This is because they share their bodies with algae and have to bring the algae to the surface at low tides so that they can manufacture food . |
| 30 | Pointing to the way in which poverty structured the lives of the majority of her respondents , she concluded that ‘ young Black women and young white women become pregnant for the same sorts of reasons , and this is because they share the same socio-economic contexts ’ ( Phoenix , 1988a , p. 154 ) . |