Example sentences of "[det] is [conj] " in BNC.

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1 This is whether or not the information is represented statistically .
2 I I have only one point I would like to raise , Mrs , and this is whether or not er you are in a position to give me any comments er in relation to the er colony of Great Crested Newts in this pond .
3 What we mean by this is whether a syntactic analysis is carried out even when it is rendered unnecessary for sentence comprehension by the presence of semantic or pragmatic factors .
4 This is unless he exceeds the terms of the licence or the plaintiff has legally revoked the licence .
5 Part of the reason for this is that the American professoriat is the largest in the world , while the American market for current art is unprecedented ; it is evident that the turnover of the American art market as a whole is the largest in the world .
6 The great pity of this is that most pubs are old , yet the proper opportunity to celebrate this has already been squandered .
7 The reason for this is that there are now two ways of getting your council 's blessing to proceed with the work you have in mind .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 The effect of this is that nobody , some City professionals included , really knows much about any of them .
12 This is that the King is showing signs of not having learnt the lesson of the past months .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 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
16 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 .
17 The reason for this is that so much of the guesswork can be removed , certain weather conditions demand certain tactics .
18 The reason for this is that women are forced to carry on the main productive activity by themselves because of their subjection .
19 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 .
20 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 .
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 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 .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 What is meant by this is that people begin to come to terms with what has happened .
26 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 .
27 The most familiar reason for this is that most reproduction is sexual : an individual has two parents , not one .
28 The consequence of this is that a population of individuals with sex can evolve faster to meet changing circumstances than one without it .
29 This is that the hybrids between species are often — indeed , almost always — of low fitness compared to their parents .
30 ‘ The nice thing about fighting a seat like this is that we ca n't lose since we 're coming from rock bottom .
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