Example sentences of "this be [subord] [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems incredible to us today that Carey should have had such difficulty in convincing christians of the necessity of sharing the Gospel with ‘ the heathen ’ , but this is because we take for granted the radical influence his views have had upon our modern view of mission . |
| 2 | This is because they relied on features common to the whole of the lower class ( restricted legitimate opportunities ) ; these were very common , crime relatively rare . |
| 3 | This is because they look like three sixth-formers farting around in their bedroom with a drum machine , busy drowning in a prog-rock flood of their own ideas . |
| 4 | Indeed , Ross thinks the moral philosopher must take the deliverances of common morality as his basic data ( as Moore , in spite of his much proclaimed faith in ‘ common sense ’ did not ) though this is because it rests on intuitions of necessary truth . |
| 5 | This is because it stands in a position closer to totally autonomous behaviour ( at the top ) than the others . |
| 6 | This is because he asked from the people a level of commitment that meant even in peacetime they were subjected to strict rule . |
| 7 | This is because I have at last discovered the key to my existence , the meaning of my life . |
| 8 | But I considered myself to be unattractive , and in becoming so thin as to render myself totally undesirable sexually , I was saying , ‘ I may be unattractive , but this is because I choose to be this way . ’ |
| 9 | This is cos they tend to be high status professionals who 's time is relatively precious , so that you can go to the extent of actually having waiting rooms that you can be kept hanging around in . |
| 10 | But this was when you moved to was n't it ? |
| 11 | This was because they purchased in bulk , often for delivery to a central depot and placed large orders well in advance of the delivery date , thus enabling the manufacturer to organise production more efficiently . |
| 12 | This was because it amounted to a transfer back to X of property in the car ( because Y 's cheque had not been met ) in return for X waiving any right to enforce payment from Y. At the time of the repossession , X was unaware of Y's sale to Z and thus by repossessing the car with Y 's acquiescence , X obtained ownership of it by virtue of section 25(1) of the 1893 Act ( i.e. section 24 of the Sale of Goods Act 1979 ) . |
| 13 | Perhaps this was because she belonged to Fred , which meant that there was no call to Oh , all that , he thought , shutting up in his own head . |