Example sentences of "[verb] this is [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | erm called Bocodonism and it turns out , find out later in the book that the reason they outlawed this is because of the guy Bocodon who was , who originated the religion had made a deal with the head of the state of the country that he would outlaw it , so that 's how the religion thrived , because it was outlawed |
| 2 | Or , I mean this is if it 's an average , and sort of an even acceleration . |
| 3 | Lina Stimpson thinks this is because the residents are mostly Londoners who have ‘ bettered themselves ’ and are ‘ putting their confidence in what they aspire to be ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The reason the vendor shareholders may be willing to accept this is that they can defer their capital gains tax liability deriving from the disposal of their Target shares if s135 TCGA 1992 is satisfied and clearance under s138 is obtained . |
| 6 | The reason I say this is that they dive just like a peregrine , folding their wings and plummeting like an arrow into the sea to catch their prey . |
| 7 | The reason I say this is that i ) , there does not appear to be financial problems with the Club and ii ) , there has been no talk of buying another class player . |
| 8 | Western observers in Baku say this is because the Armenians are better organised , rather than that Azerbaijan lacks arms and equipment . |
| 9 | The NRPB says this is because of new findings that the livers of cows grazing near coal-fired stations do not appear to accumulate polonium . |
| 10 | But the opposition says there are no spending commitments and no tough action ; Shadow Environment Secretary , Brian Gould says this is because Chris Patten lost the crucial battles in Cabinet . |
| 11 | The only thing is now er the reason we 've done this is because the hospital that we 're standing outside now is er desperately in need of another operating theatre and in addition to that there 's a tremendous amount of work needs to be done at Great Ormond Street hospital . |
| 12 | Andersen reckons this is because companies are using desktop systems more and more . |
| 13 | Andersen reckons this is because companies are using desktop systems more and more . |
| 14 | Sexist cynics might suggest this is because she does n't have Di 's looks or Fergie 's telephotogenic qualities . |
| 15 | Another way to put this is that men , the more powerful gender group , impose their own definition on the masculine/feminine opposition . |
| 16 | However , the consequence of doing this is that the current yield would then exhibit a saw-tooth pattern as shown in Fig. 5.2 . |
| 17 | The only other thing I 'd say , is that the reason we 're doing this is because we 're facing cuts not |
| 18 | What ensures this is that the ideological apparatus responds ( damnation , approbation , incarceration ) . |
| 19 | What he says is that erm you know when he was writing of six hundred and fifty eight seats in parliament , I do n't know how many there are now , but he says if we allowed for people to be paid , then we have as it were six hundred and fifty eight prizes to people 's six hundred and fifty eight jobs for people and he says and this is rather astonishing to hear , to read this is that it will attract adventurism of low class to er parliament if we pay members of parliament . |
| 20 | However , I believe this is but a drop in the ocean compared to the vast number of communities that could play some form of active role , however modest . |
| 21 | Leaders of the Colombian Federation of Teachers ( FECODE ) , believe this is because of a shift in policy in the early 1980s , when union members started to challenge educational policy instead of confining themselves to labour demands . |
| 22 | Some argue this is because of the decision to adopt sugar-derived alcohol , not solely to reduce oil imports , but also to add a further barrier against new foreigners . |
| 23 | I surmise this is because they are unaware of the shape of humans . |
| 24 | And the other thing you 'll find when you 're taking this is that you 'll be able to get , keep your erection for a while longer , maybe three , four , five minutes longer . |
| 25 | The shorthand way of putting this is that students must have the freedom-the academic freedom — to exercise due responsibility for their own learning . |
| 26 | Another way of putting this is that students ' academic freedoms should be reflected in the internal culture of institutions of higher education . |
| 27 | Another way of putting this is that under rational expectations the forecast error , , is independent of all lagged information , in this case lagged prices . |
| 28 | Another way of putting this is that if we impose the restriction that by adding X and Z together to form a single variable ( X + Z ) , and carry out the regression : if β 1 really is equal to β 2 in the process generating Y t then the estimates of β and β 1 from equation ( 3.20 ) , in a large sample , should not differ very much from the estimates from equation ( 3.19 ) . |
| 29 | Another way of putting this is that the home is an ‘ escape attempt ’ : a sphere of autonomy to which people can retreat . |
| 30 | Another way of putting this is that where their activities are not marginal , they tend to be very responsive to the TNCs . |