Example sentences of "this [is] that the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason for this is that the system is so highly structured that there is no question of uncertainty and it would therefore be impossible to impair the efficiency of it . |
| 2 | the significance of this is that the organisation will be subject to supervision by the local equivalent of the Department of Social Security and in return will receive financial help from the Romanian government towards the running costs of the village . |
| 3 | The first principle of this is that the universe of ideas in traditional societies is characterized by one single undisputed ‘ doxa ’ , while in modern societies principles of ‘ heterodoxy ’ and ‘ orthodoxy ’ engage in struggle . |
| 4 | This is that the dance might have been the only way , given apine physiology immediately before its evolutionary debut , to solve that problem . |
| 5 | The result of this is that the law relating to fraud and commercial affairs in general is strictly limited in its scope . |
| 6 | One reason for this is that the agencies supply them efficiently with information about assignments . |
| 7 | Part of the reason for this is that the forces which dominate proceedings in Brussels place greater emphasis on common standards ( which they often confuse with higher standards ) , in preference to the provision of a framework which is genuinely competitive . |
| 8 | This is that the King is showing signs of not having learnt the lesson of the past months . |
| 9 | This is that the work of such authors as Harré , Goffman , Freud and Ardrey remain insufficiently ‘ social ’ . |
| 10 | The result of this is that the rotor disc shows a greater angle of incidence relative to the direction in which the model was originally travelling and , therefore , more lift ( Fig.5.5 ) . |
| 11 | This is that the evaluation of a company 's prospects is ultimately a matter of subjective judgment , and hence what ‘ economists frequently characterize as quantifiable risks are in reality uncertainties of such large and incalculable proportions as to intimidate investors and send them scurrying to the seemingly safer ground of follow-the-leader ’ . |
| 12 | The main reason for this is that the liabilities of the major investing institutions are are primarily nominal , although some pensions are index-linked . |
| 13 | The reason for this is that the silicon connected to various pins is as near to being an insulator as makes very little difference . |
| 14 | THE FIRST thing you notice about this is that the CD package is upside down . |
| 15 | THE FIRST thing you notice about this is that the CD package is upside down . |
| 16 | Another way of seeing this is that the event horizon , the boundary of the black hole , is like the edge of a shadow — the shadow of impending doom . |
| 17 | What emerges when we do this is that the philosophy in question was originally fashioned to suit scientists . |
| 18 | A positive consequence of this is that the church has preserved her spiritual heritage and also maintained her community base . |
| 19 | The reason for this is that the coprocessor is optimised at both hardware and micro code level to perform mathematics . |
| 20 | The reason for this is that the trust funds are not owned by the authority , they are being administered on behalf of the bequeathers . |
| 21 | The significance of this is that the head of it , who had the status of a minister , need no longer be approved by the Soviet parliament , with the potential embarrassment of being rejected . |
| 22 | The reason for this is that the snail can only perceive events which are more than one quarter of a second apart , so a stick which is moved four times a second appears to be stationary . |
| 23 | The reason for this is that the formation is sandwiched between thick units of halite ( Fig . |
| 24 | The evolutionary advantage of this is that the animal need not lie around in a torpid state , vulnerable to attack . |
| 25 | Another way of putting this is that the home is an ‘ escape attempt ’ : a sphere of autonomy to which people can retreat . |
| 26 | The one good thing that 's come out of this is that the speculators have been shaken out . |
| 27 | The practical upshot of this is that the user can formulate a complex request such as ‘ locate a Postscript printer loaded with plain paper on the third floor ’ and get a sensible answer back . |
| 28 | The rationale for this is that the generation which uses the asset should pay for it . |
| 29 | The writer of this book has to confess that so far he has been so hidebound by tradition that he has not yet brought himself to write key-signatures for the horns , but he admits that the only argument in favour of this is that the lack of signature acts as a guide to the conductor 's eye in spotting the horn parts in the score . |
| 30 | One of the few established facts about psychotic illness is that it runs in families and only the most stubborn social theorist could now deny that one reason for this is that the disposition to it , at least , is partly inherited . |