Example sentences of "[coord] this is [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And this is just after I 've murdered my husband ! |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | In the beg , er and this is very cos that 's exactly what the , Nadine said to me . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | That was then and this is now and changes have to be made . |
| 14 | There are few other references to Drumcree in early documents and this is possibly because for certain periods it was absorbed in Kilmore . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | A similar long bridge crosses the Taw at Barnstaple , but this is neither as long nor as irregular as the Bideford bridge , and has been subject to more extensive alteration . |
| 17 | The differences are there at primary school , they would say , but this is largely because of the educational experiences of the children ( in and out of the classroom ) . |
| 18 | But this is probably because such retirement arrangements died out before formalizing them became the normal custom , rather than because they were never common . |
| 19 | Conversely slightly more of the action sample were receiving meals-on-wheels by the time of the second assessment but this is probably because more of the control sample were out receiving day care and therefore were less likely to require them . |
| 20 | It may be thought odd that no large bronze double-axes were found at Knossos or Phaistos , but this is probably because the sites were ransacked in antiquity and plundered of their usable and precious metal objects . |
| 21 | Now are aware that are losing the agency stuff therefore services should improve generally but this is mostly and the business travel , you know duty travel , cruise positioning that sort of thing , to the extent that erm and two of the ops people paid a visit to last week for a liaison meeting and one thing that I thought was absolutely remarkable that came out was in respect of complaining that they could never get through to anybody in erm in , they could n't get a reply from the extensions and they could n't send messages or anything . |
| 22 | Erm but this is more or less , indigenous within the engineering industry , there is even inherent within an engineering mind , and I 'm not with the planners or the technical experts , but even in the ordinary lay engineer , he looks to be able to do the job more efficiently , with the materials that he has in hand er and possibly introduce a new type of tool if he can get the proper material , and likewise the employer was doing the same thing . |
| 23 | As we shall discuss later , this is detectable through a screening technique known as amniocentesis , but this is only after the child has been conceived . |
| 24 | Information has to be taken in to the brain — often through the eyes but this is only because humans rely so much upon this sense . |
| 25 | He allows that , despite his claiming to have no consciousness of them , a court may punish a man for his drunken actions , but this is only because it can not be sure of distinguishing in the defendant 's plea ‘ what is real , what counterfeit ’ . |
| 26 | Several of the big bream waters I fish respond best to maggots , but this is only because maggots are continually thrown in by everyone who fishes there . |
| 27 | A small proportion of people develop a headache after lumbar puncture but this is usually because they have been too active too soon after the test . |
| 28 | A few people take elocution or voice projection and control lessons , but this is usually because they are interested in a career on the stage , rather than because they want to improve their communication skills . |