Example sentences of "[det] [be] that [pron] [vb base] " in BNC.

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1 Part of the reason for this is that they make the interpretation of information derived from assessments unproblematical .
2 Now one of the interesting things about this is that they 've worked out , in order to erm achieve our sales forecast , erm the impact of recruitment for each branch is that we need a net growth in branch of one plus one for every er on every month .
3 The downside to this is that they lose valuable advertising space on television programmes such as Saturday Superstore .
4 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 .
5 The main reason for this is that they do n't know how to and probably neither do a lot of their English solicitors .
6 What 's bad about this is that they do n't take drugs — they 've never touched them — but they want to sell them .
7 This is that they have a different emphasis according to whether they are being applied to consumer markets or industrial markets .
8 It , but er the difference this is that we 've got a piece of fabric coming of there with a weight holding it down .
9 Now because of these two problems we violate er a couple of assumptions of ordinary lease squares right , and as a result , the upshot of this is that we get biased estimates of our parameters A B C and D , right , they will be biased and also they wo n't have the minimum variants property right , they wo n't be the best estimators you , the statistics you talk about blue estimates , best linear and biased alright .
10 This is that we do not have an a priori conception of reality which allows for a range of possible universes , empirical inquiry determining just which of those possibilities is realized .
11 And my own feeling about this is that we do have to move more to planned expansion .
12 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 .
13 The obvious explanation of this is that we have learned subliminally that certain factors , in combination , indicate that one place is safe for us while another is not .
14 I suppose my main concern in all this is that we employ thirty-three thousand people and their lives are being considerably upset by this activity and I feel
15 The reason for this is that we want to be able to attribute all changes of meaning on substitution to differences in the semantic properties of the items being substituted .
16 The upshot of this is that I 've now become a resident , which makes a weekly tour of junk and antique shops even more vital .
17 One interesting side-effect of all this is that I 've seen more of Britain than I ever did before , albeit through the windows of an armoured car .
18 The most amusing part of all this is that I do n't have a lover . ’
19 My concern about this is that I do n't see how a view can be taken at a strategic level on something which ultimately can be only ascertained on a site specific basis .
20 The real benefit from this is that you 've got a full page , and a full diary .
21 The effect of this is that you do n't have to bother calculating anything — if you use 1in thick material , 7½in diameter .
22 The reason for this is that you do not just calculate the length and breadth of the pool , but the various areas that are going to accommodate marginal shelves as well .
23 One reason advanced by some is that we tend to value the personal above other things .
24 Another is that they do n't shove the gear up on their dining-room walls ; you ca n't have a cop or two show up at some billionaire 's apartment in Sutton Place and demand to go through the strongroom .
25 The advantages of these are that they last much longer and cost much less to run ( the saving well outweighs the higher asking price ) ; their disadvantages are that the light they give is not quite so ‘ warm ’ and does not come on instantly .
26 The problem with doom-laden statistical predictions like these is that they draw attention away from the reasons why so many perfectly sensible people are choosing to have large families .
27 The importance of these is that they make you think and help you recognise what it is that ‘ makes you tick ’ .
28 Not least among these is that you have to be beyond the peak of the Laffer curve to begin with .
29 Most significant news of all is that we 've just won the highly respected Dataquest Customer Satisfaction Poll against competition from the other best manufacturing names in the industry .
30 He can create overall rhythms and within them short phrase rhythms , but the basis of them all is that they exist in groups and by being efficient in action and appropriate to the context give pleasure to both the performer and the onlooker . ’
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