Example sentences of "[to-vb] this be that " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Another way to put this is that men , the more powerful gender group , impose their own definition on the masculine/feminine opposition . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Among suggestions offered to explain this is that the sloth 's behaviour is mutually advantageous to both it and the tree on which it feeds — the tree is fertilised by the dung . |
| 5 | One theory to explain this is that the pigmentation of the skin may affect the sensitivity of the nerve-endings , so that chestnuts may be more sensitive to outside stimuli than say bays , therefore making them more likely to over-react . |
| 6 | All Boy could think of to explain this was that the man was older than he was , and that he actually had a husband in a sort of way , and not just for one night or a few nights , and so that had to be why he felt differently about the films he watched . |
| 7 | 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 . |