Example sentences of "this [is] [that] [pron] [vb base] " in BNC.
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1 | Part of the reason for this is that they make the interpretation of information derived from assessments unproblematical . |
2 | Now one of the interesting things about this is that they 've worked out , in order to erm achieve our sales forecast , erm the impact of recruitment for each branch is that we need a net growth in branch of one plus one for every er on every month . |
3 | The downside to this is that they lose valuable advertising space on television programmes such as Saturday Superstore . |
4 | The reason I say this is that they dive just like a peregrine , folding their wings and plummeting like an arrow into the sea to catch their prey . |
5 | The main reason for this is that they do n't know how to and probably neither do a lot of their English solicitors . |
6 | What 's bad about this is that they do n't take drugs — they 've never touched them — but they want to sell them . |
7 | This is that they have a different emphasis according to whether they are being applied to consumer markets or industrial markets . |
8 | It , but er the difference this is that we 've got a piece of fabric coming of there with a weight holding it down . |
9 | Now because of these two problems we violate er a couple of assumptions of ordinary lease squares right , and as a result , the upshot of this is that we get biased estimates of our parameters A B C and D , right , they will be biased and also they wo n't have the minimum variants property right , they wo n't be the best estimators you , the statistics you talk about blue estimates , best linear and biased alright . |
10 | This is that we do not have an a priori conception of reality which allows for a range of possible universes , empirical inquiry determining just which of those possibilities is realized . |
11 | And my own feeling about this is that we do have to move more to planned expansion . |
12 | The reason why we are embarrassed to admit this is that we have lived in an age when the self-sufficiency , the autonomy of poems has been elevated into dogma . |
13 | The obvious explanation of this is that we have learned subliminally that certain factors , in combination , indicate that one place is safe for us while another is not . |
14 | I suppose my main concern in all this is that we employ thirty-three thousand people and their lives are being considerably upset by this activity and I feel |
15 | The reason for this is that we want to be able to attribute all changes of meaning on substitution to differences in the semantic properties of the items being substituted . |
16 | The upshot of this is that I 've now become a resident , which makes a weekly tour of junk and antique shops even more vital . |
17 | One interesting side-effect of all this is that I 've seen more of Britain than I ever did before , albeit through the windows of an armoured car . |
18 | The most amusing part of all this is that I do n't have a lover . ’ |
19 | My concern about this is that I do n't see how a view can be taken at a strategic level on something which ultimately can be only ascertained on a site specific basis . |
20 | The real benefit from this is that you 've got a full page , and a full diary . |
21 | The effect of this is that you do n't have to bother calculating anything — if you use 1in thick material , 7½in diameter . |
22 | The reason for this is that you do not just calculate the length and breadth of the pool , but the various areas that are going to accommodate marginal shelves as well . |