Example sentences of "this [vb mod] [be] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The result of this may be that the foods they do choose to eat are very limited . |
| 2 | One reason for this may be that the civil service 's centralized administrative structure , based on line departments , makes the task of developing an integrated strategy in the English regions exceptionally difficult to achieve . |
| 3 | A possible response to this may be that if we want to understand the concept of knowledge we must treat the use of ‘ I know ’ ( the activity of avouching ) as the primary thing , but that there are other psychological verbs — such as ‘ I hope ’ — in which a speaker using the first person singular of the present tense does simply express his mental state . |
| 4 | A reason for this may be that R2 does not contain separate domains as lactoferrin but instead has a compact helix bundle structure . |
| 5 | One reason for this may be that it was overtaken — and , perhaps , undermined — by political developments . |
| 6 | The reasons for doing this may be that the animal maximises its chances of mating with somebody with whom it can have offspring while at the same time minimising the ill-effects of inbreeding . |
| 7 | One wonders whether the explanation of this may be that the Parliamentary draftsmen immediately after the Union were English lawyers , and that it was not until well on in the nineteenth century that Scottish draftsmen came to draft bills applicable to Scotland and the spelling ‘ Burgh ’ was adopted in Statutes applying to Scotland . |
| 8 | The reason for this must be that one can hardly cause an explosion without realizing that one is about to do so , and that explosions usually create danger and must be known to do so , unless they are carefully controlled in an area away from members of the public . |
| 9 | The practical consequence of this must be that the individual who in his personal development has not mastered his basic instinctual drives but finds instead that the state masters them for him experiences none of the narcissistic gratifications of self-mastery but all of the privations which the agencies of state control enforce on him . |
| 10 | The reason for this might be that it feels more possible to grieve the death of someone or something that is perhaps significant , but not so important as the death of the spouse . |
| 11 | The reason for this could be that the course for this year 's Olympic marathon in Barcelona fails the two main criteria . |
| 12 | The effect of this would be that the additional premium of £5,000 would be treated as additional rent for the period 28 April 1989 to 25 March 1991 and would , in effect , make the transaction tax neutral within companies controlled by the same individual . |
| 13 | A and the , the justification for doing this would be that in the long term we will need the coal therefore it 's ne it 's necessary to keep er a viable coal industry going . |
| 14 | The normal conclusion from this would be that the readings of mouth in 63–67 were contextual modulations of a single superordinate sense . |
| 15 | … let the organization of a canine animal become slightly plastic , which animal preyed chiefly on rabbits , but sometimes on hares ; let these same changes cause the number of rabbits very slowly to decrease and the number of hares to increase ; the effect of this would be that the fox or dog would be driven to try to catch more hares , and his numbers would tend to decrease ; his organization , however , being slightly plastic , those individuals with the lightest forms , longest limbs , and best eyesight ( though perhaps with less cunning or scent ) would be slightly favoured , let the difference be ever so small , and would tend to live longer and to survive during that time of the year when food was shortest ; they would also rear more young , which young would tend to inherit these slight peculiarities . |