Example sentences of "is mainly [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ULS Study showed that smaller farms were more labour intensive per unit of land area and the NCC 's concern is mainly that larger units ( especially if bought up by large investors ) are run as ranches with little if any regard to conservation interests or features . |
| 2 | Long-term capital is mainly that provided by selling shares as described above and by retaining profits within the company . |
| 3 | Long-term capital is mainly that provided by selling shares as described above and by retaining profits within the company . |
| 4 | Thus the redistribution in favour of the lowest 20 per cent shown in Table 3.24 is mainly but not exclusively for retirement pensioners . |
| 5 | This is mainly because salaries have not kept pace with the rise in house prices which , until this year 's slump , had more than tripled from an average £19,925 in 1979 to £61,965 by August this year , according to the Building Societies Association 's latest figures . |
| 6 | This is mainly because in the summer months there is less rainfall and cloud and so the grain ripens well and can be harvested easily . |
| 7 | This is mainly because this account of the mechanisms of language development attributes the major role to hidden processes in the LAD . |
| 8 | If what I say leads a buyer to believe he 's acquiring an original , that , I assure you , is mainly because it 's what he wishes to believe . ’ |
| 9 | This is mainly because many of the district 's relatively cheap large houses have become part III and nursing homes , offering about 300 places in the private sector and around 150 run by social services . |
| 10 | This is mainly because they are long stay hospital patients who have no informal carers , who have no communities to return to initially . |
| 11 | There are many reasons for this , but it is mainly because the infilled ditch contains more moisture than the surrounding dry soil . |
| 12 | This is mainly because it seeks , first of all , to satisfy the customer 's needs and wants , whereas its colleagues seek rationality and efficiency of operations . |
| 13 | However , the institutions which administer and execute public sector audits are different ; this is mainly because of the effect of specific statutes . |
| 14 | This is mainly because of privatization , but the government also notes that there is no clear dividing line between capital and current spending . |
| 15 | This is mainly because the wages of education support staff ( such as nursery assistants and welfare assistants ) and other non-teaching staff figure much more prominently in the spending of special schools ( 27% ) than they do in the spending of primary ( 14% ) or secondary ( 11% ) schools . |
| 16 | This is mainly because of the continuing difference in opinion between the staff-side reps ( ACTS , NUJ and Staff Council ) and the other members of SSC ( SMT and Board/F&S members ) on the question of a reduction in pay differentials . |
| 17 | This is mainly because although some adjectives precedes others it is within a relatively small space of time and a comparison between adjectives relating to the situation versus those to the person can not really be made . |
| 18 | Death is mainly because of exsanguination or liver failure . |
| 19 | Reports from Finland , Norway , and USA suggest that the declining incidence of gastric carcinomas is mainly because of a marked decrease in tumours of intestinal type . |
| 20 | This is mainly because of Keegan ( but partly 'cos my wife 's family are Geordies ) as I actually have a lot of time for the individual players ( Beardsley/Cole/ Sellars especially ) . |
| 21 | This is mainly because erm there are so many diverse services that might help in the erm general support and education of a special child that integration is necessary and that really one person should be keeping an eye on things , as it were . |