Example sentences of "[det] [be] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The reason for this is that as the core begins to saturate , the voltage available for saturation falls , tending to slow down the approach to saturation . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | The reason for this is that the sub-continent 's representatives will still be competing for a one-day pot in Sharjah until the 20th . |
| 34 | The effect of this is that nobody , some City professionals included , really knows much about any of them . |
| 35 | This is that the King is showing signs of not having learnt the lesson of the past months . |
| 36 | The advantage of this is that when you start gigging , you have someone out front who knows your songs , and who can either mix your sound or at least keep an eye on the house engineer . |
| 37 | The disadvantage of this is that some promoters underadvertise , underpromote , and undermarket the gig to try and put more pounds in their pockets by reducing their expenses . |
| 38 | 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 |
| 39 | A necessary condition of this is that there has been sufficient money to enable it to function ( barely true for instance in Zaire , and parts of Nigeria and Tanzania in the 1980s ) , and that civil strife has been contained , sometimes ruthlessly . |
| 40 | The reason for this is that so much of the guesswork can be removed , certain weather conditions demand certain tactics . |
| 41 | The reason for this is that women are forced to carry on the main productive activity by themselves because of their subjection . |
| 42 | Naturally , the greater part of the volume of this room is within the roof space and a consequence of this is that a small pre-existing ventilation opening , which was sited high up below the eaves of the barn and is now glazed to form a window , has its sill at floor level . |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | One reply to this is that most offences of bad driving have the potential to cause death or serious injury ; and that the North Committee 's proposals undervalue the element of endangerment where no harm occurs rather than over -value the resulting harm where it does occur . |
| 46 | The logical outcome of all this is that some machinery firms are finding that the cost of exhibiting is n't matched by extra sales . |
| 47 | The corollary of this is that if you absolutely love certain items like cake or chips , do not ban them from your life for ever , not even for a week . |
| 48 | What is meant by this is that people begin to come to terms with what has happened . |
| 49 | It seems clear that one of the effects of this is that more people are fearful both for their own future and for that of the person who has died . |
| 50 | The most familiar reason for this is that most reproduction is sexual : an individual has two parents , not one . |
| 51 | The consequence of this is that a population of individuals with sex can evolve faster to meet changing circumstances than one without it . |
| 52 | This is that the hybrids between species are often — indeed , almost always — of low fitness compared to their parents . |
| 53 | ‘ The nice thing about fighting a seat like this is that we ca n't lose since we 're coming from rock bottom . |
| 54 | The kindest thing one can say of this is that , one day , we may come round to liking it . |
| 55 | The reason for this is that the first layer atoms are shadowed by their neighbours along these principal axes and the projectile experiences a continuous potential that focuses it into a specular direction — ie θ = 2α . |
| 56 | 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 . |
| 57 | The reason for this is that Germany 's huge trade surplus is overwhelmingly with the Community ( approx. 70% of it was with the EC , although in late 1991 , there has been a significant drop , albeit temporarily , in Germany 's surplus ) . |
| 58 | This is that the dinosaurs , or a close dinosaur relative , included the ancestors of the living birds . |
| 59 | What results from this is that we might be led to think that the problem with defining God is that there is a whole range of ideas about the divine being that tend to produce no very clear overall picture . |
| 60 | The most likely explanation for this is that the vehicle itself is not actually speeding up , but the cooling fan is ! |