Example sentences of "this [be] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main points arising from this are that : ( 1 ) the vowel system is totally different from mainstream British English in terms of vowel-length , vowel-height , diphthongization and other properties ( for example , vowel-length is not usually contrastive , as it is alleged to be in RP , and so most vowel-phonemes , such as /e/ , as in gate , save , are realized as considerably longer or shorter allophones according to consonantal environment ) ; ( 2 ) allophones of phonemes can overlap phonetically with allophones of other phonemes in a manner that is not permitted by classical phoneme theory ( Bloomfield , 1933 ) ; ( 3 ) lexical items do not necessarily belong to the same vowel phoneme classes as they do in RP and SBE ( for example , whereas good and food have different vowels in most SBE , they have the same vowel in Ulster English ) ; and ( 4 ) many sets of lexical items exhibit vowel alternations , in that the vowels in these items are realizations of two different phonemes . |
| 2 | Wh what erm what ye what year would this be that you sort of s |
| 3 | The two main reasons given for this were that it was too ambitious and it was too far removed from bureaux experience until too late in its development . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The great pity of this is that most pubs are old , yet the proper opportunity to celebrate this has already been squandered . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The effect of this is that nobody , some City professionals included , really knows much about any of them . |
| 11 | This is that the King is showing signs of not having learnt the lesson of the past months . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The reason for this is that so much of the guesswork can be removed , certain weather conditions demand certain tactics . |
| 17 | The reason for this is that women are forced to carry on the main productive activity by themselves because of their subjection . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | What is meant by this is that people begin to come to terms with what has happened . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The most familiar reason for this is that most reproduction is sexual : an individual has two parents , not one . |
| 27 | The consequence of this is that a population of individuals with sex can evolve faster to meet changing circumstances than one without it . |
| 28 | This is that the hybrids between species are often — indeed , almost always — of low fitness compared to their parents . |
| 29 | ‘ The nice thing about fighting a seat like this is that we ca n't lose since we 're coming from rock bottom . |
| 30 | The kindest thing one can say of this is that , one day , we may come round to liking it . |