Example sentences of "[verb] this is [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Western observers in Baku say this is because the Armenians are better organised , rather than that Azerbaijan lacks arms and equipment . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | However , the consequence of doing this is that the current yield would then exhibit a saw-tooth pattern as shown in Fig. 5.2 . |
| 6 | What ensures this is that the ideological apparatus responds ( damnation , approbation , incarceration ) . |
| 7 | Another way of putting this is that the home is an ‘ escape attempt ’ : a sphere of autonomy to which people can retreat . |
| 8 | I think this is because the pop-up is much more noticeable and less selective . |
| 9 | What emerges when we do this is that the philosophy in question was originally fashioned to suit scientists . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |