Example sentences of "this is that the " in BNC.
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| 61 | The first reaction to this is that the speller needs to be looked at more closely : the inversion of letters here , and the production of a completely un-English-looking word , suggests that the child has considerable difficulty with visualisation , and possibly has trouble reading , too . |
| 62 | The explanation of this is that the sun is not the only agent that affects the temperature of the colonies . |
| 63 | And the point of this is that the infallible beliefs are intended , within the programme of classical foundationalism , to act as those by appeal to which all others are to be justified . |
| 64 | What is frustrating about this is that the ‘ canon ’ apparently consists of works of universal and immutable value ; anyone who suggests adapting it to include , say , more female writers , is open to accusations of being ‘ political ’ . |
| 65 | But there is another reason why communities like Belfast are difficult to deal with , and this is that the phonology of such communities is not usually adequately described and codified beforehand , whereas more information of this kind is available for varieties closer to ‘ standard ’ English . |
| 66 | The great value of this is that the searcher can look up the name of an author known to have published in the field of interest and , if any previously published work of the author has been cited , the item will appear along with the names of the citing authors . |
| 67 | 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 . |
| 68 | One reason for this is that the agencies supply them efficiently with information about assignments . |
| 69 | The reason for this is that the length of the season , and the level of activity within it , is less predictable than at Christmas time . |
| 70 | 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 ’ . |
| 71 | One consequence of this is that the sharp rise in the proportion of young couples in the owner-occupied sector over the post-war period ( and the even greater number who aspire to this sector ) must have had some effect in reinforcing fertility decline in Britain in recent decades although , of course , many developed countries have also experienced declines over this period , so it would be naive to emphasize this ( or indeed any single cause ) as the sole or primary explanation . |
| 72 | The consequence of this is that the records may not be physically in sequence after a control interval split , although they will be handled in sequence by the indexes . |
| 73 | This is that the National Health Service is administered through regional health authorities , consisting of a small body of people appointed by the secretary of state . |
| 74 | The reason for this is that the technology is much simpler — and therefore cheaper — and running costs are reputedly lower ( see page 96 ) , yet the output quality approaches that of lasers . |
| 75 | This is that the research effort in a department should underpin the courses it offers . |
| 76 | A corollary of this is that the risks which people face of being victims of serious crime are remarkably small . |
| 77 | All texts must be read in order for them to ‘ exist ’ ; the corollary of this is that the mode of their existence in the world depends on how they are read . |
| 78 | One of the most important reasons for this is that the Latin American elites reacted quickly and in most cases effectively to the social and economic changes brought about by the industrialisation , urbanisation and immigration of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries . |
| 79 | One reason for this is that the underlying causes for the West 's concern over the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait and for Washington 's original involvement have little to do with the security system it now wishes to see created . |
| 80 | THE FIRST thing you notice about this is that the CD package is upside down . |
| 81 | What we mean by this is that the lexical sub-system we use for recognising printed words in reading may be different from the sub-system we use for producing printed words in writing . |
| 82 | In the long run , the obvious consequence of this is that the more frequently a word occurs the lower the threshold of its logogen will be , and hence the less activation of the logogen needed for it to reach threshold . |
| 83 | 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 . |
| 84 | The reason for this is that the trust funds are not owned by the authority , they are being administered on behalf of the bequeathers . |
| 85 | The rationale for this is that the generation which uses the asset should pay for it . |
| 86 | 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 . |
| 87 | 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 . |
| 88 | The significance of this is that the orbits of planets , like the earth , around the sun would be unstable : the least disturbance from a circular orbit ( such as would be caused by the gravitational attraction of other planets ) would result in the earth spiraling away from or into the sun . |
| 89 | 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 . |
| 90 | The main reason for this is that the liabilities of the major investing institutions are are primarily nominal , although some pensions are index-linked . |