Example sentences of "[conj] this is [adv] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 Although this is often because they are in poor condition , many are still an excellent buy .
2 Impressionistically , however , the courts seem more reluctant now to use customs and usages to imply contract terms , although this is possibly because they do not draw the distinction clearly enough between mod-ifying a contract and understanding its terms .
3 ( d ) Agreed price As mentioned previously , it is essential to ensure that this is properly and finally negotiated at the commencement of the transaction .
4 It should be noted that this is equally as is a Christian position , a religious position .
5 Do not be misled by thinking that this is either because of strict conformity or regulations laid down .
6 Current evidence suggests that this is primarily because of substantial leakage of endogenous protein into the gastrointestinal tract .
7 It is not that these judgements should not be made , but that where subjective judgements are made by the teacher she should be aware that this is so and be prepared , not only to give reasons for her judgements , but also to be sufficiently flexible to change them in the light of particular circumstances .
8 Can you confirm that this is so and whether the accounts would then have to carry some sort of explanatory note to this effect ?
9 The point is that black people are not only at a disadvantage in the job market on account of their colour , they also perceive sharply that this is so and , despite Johnson 's tongue-in-cheek addendum , the consciousness of belonging to a group which feels itself to be at a disadvantage is clear enough .
10 We know that this is so because the X-ray diffraction pattern , which shows the crystal lattice spacing , does not change when cellulose swells in water .
11 We suggest that this is so because the vivid events are hallucinatory bursts whose content is unconstrained by the previous visual events , the ongoing emotion , or the ongoing integration ; whereas the less vivid events are visual material generated by the cognitive integration , and as such , are constrained in content .
12 Another result of the ease and availability of the Pill is an assumption that this is more or less the only method of birth control .
13 To argue that this is always and necessarily a result of ‘ conditioning ’ sounds like a feminist version of ‘ I do n't know what you housewives do all day ’ .
14 Sense that this is now or never time , he wrote .
15 And this is just after I 've murdered my husband !
16 Brook talked about that central game of dice that Yudishthira plays , ‘ an ordinary , everyday action … it also has overtones , through the poetic to the metaphysical and the supernatural , and this is just as in Shakespeare .
17 As you have read the above paragraphs , many of you will already be forming your own opinions — and this is just as it should be .
18 In contrast , overweight people seem to get much less strong and effective stop signals from the body , and this is largely because of the other factor , the major clue , which our eating-behaviour expert would be using in his ‘ guess who 's overweight ’ game .
19 Very young infants are loathe to give up their precious bodily products and this is largely because children gain pleasurable sensations from not doing so .
20 I have always found the Rottweilers in Norway to be of very stable disposition , and this is probably because the Rottweilers live as family pets , with a stable home life .
21 However , serum triglyceride levels did not prove to be a significant factor for coronary heart disease in this multivariate analysis and this is probably because of the correction made for the inverse relationship between triglycerides and HDL .
22 The previous report of copper concentrations in gastric juice represents a fivefold overestimate : we found low concentrations only ( mean=1.2 n> M and this is probably because most plasma copper ( ca 80–90% is tightly bound to the plasma protein caeruloplasmin .
23 Sailing in waves produces an excitement that is difficult to beat and this is partly because it can be slightly dangerous if you are not careful .
24 The pellets of diurnal predators contain less bone , often no more than 5–10 per cent , and this is apparently because of the much greater efficiency of their digestive processes ( see below ) .
25 In the beg , er and this is very cos that 's exactly what the , Nadine said to me .
26 For us the customers , it will mean higher fares and fewer services as unprofitable and social services are cut and this is only if we are left a train service at all .
27 That was then and this is now and changes have to be made .
28 There are few other references to Drumcree in early documents and this is possibly because for certain periods it was absorbed in Kilmore .
29 The kinematics of materials , considered as assemblages of particles may be described by either of the two methods and this is so whether the material is elastic , viscous or a classical fluid .
30 If this is more or less true , then the strength of any solid should lie between E /10 and E /5 .
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