Example sentences of "[prep] this [be] [conj] it [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | M my view about this is that it 's it it is it is that this exercise is that it is er something which has been done very quickly and to my mind is not capable of providing the level of assessment that would be required . |
| 2 | Now we do n't have any new things , I should have Thank you for asking the question because we 're trying to give the impression of a medieval house the what 's special about this is that it 's a medieval house as it looked when it was new . |
| 3 | One reason for this is that it is easier to measure , and therefore control , performance if management can observe precisely what workers are doing . |
| 4 | The reason for this is that it is in the discount market that the authorities conduct those operations which they hope will influence monetary conditions in the economy . |
| 5 | An important reason for this is that it is an entirely partial approach as explained in the section discussing qualifications to the theoretical results , and also because such a case by case approach is never capable of examining anything other than a small minority of all mergers . |
| 6 | One advantage of this is that it 's not always the most expensive guitars that sound the best . |
| 7 | The corollary of this is that it is women who are expected to undertake the reproduction of labour-power within the family , whether they also have waged jobs or not . |
| 8 | They do relate this to the capitalist character of industry , and to the market economy , but the restructuring school would argue that the implication of this is that it is important to specify the particular capitalist nature of industry . |
| 9 | But a corollary of this is that it is in principle impossible to describe accurately any x as numerically identical at any given stage of its existence , until , that is , its life-cycle has been completed , for its numerical identity depends upon all its properties . |
| 10 | Install a hard drive instead of one of the floppies — the advantage of this is that it is the least expensive but the major disadvantage is my complete lack of technical knowledge and the need to purchase and install the controller which I understand my machine does not have . |
| 11 | The snag with this is that it is often impossible to avoid the triggering events altogether and in any case it might be better to face them squarely and control your reactions to the events rather than the events themselves . |
| 12 | The difficulty with this is that it is an appeal to the future , and it concedes the debate about the present to the Right . |
| 13 | The difficulty with this is that it is not obvious how the extra baryon concentration would come about — cooling would be unimportant in the outer parts of clusters , so the gas would not naturally sink inwards as in a so-called cooling flow . |
| 14 | The conclusion Sampson draws from this is that it is extremely difficult to determine the boundary between what is grammatical and ungrammatical if such a high proportion of grammatical expansions are very rare . |