Example sentences of "this be [adv] [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why should this be so and the rational processes just described not take prominence ? |
| 2 | This is presumably because the intact epithelium acts as a barrier , preventing FGF-4 from reaching the underlying mesenchyme . |
| 3 | This is presumably because the task requires the same cognitive processors as shadowing — both tasks are speech-based . |
| 4 | This is presumably because the situation was not foreseen : the Code takes a very strict line on questioning after charge , a course of action only permitted in very narrowly defined circumstance under caution ( para . |
| 5 | This is partly because the G7 had other matters on its agenda , such as how to share out the burden of paying for the Gulf war and the issue of debt relief for Egypt and Poland . |
| 6 | This is partly because the comparison of stylistic elements in different media such as vase painting and coinage is not as straightforward as it seems . |
| 7 | This is partly because the depiction of the same building on coins of a particular city at different dates may , through its variation , reveal complementary details . |
| 8 | This is partly because the word itself tends to conjure up the picture of performing some type of vigorous sport . |
| 9 | In more than half the cases where the occupations of grandparents are mentioned , this is partly because the father followed a grandfather in his own work . |
| 10 | If in Orpheus everyone sound just a fraction less involved in the proceedings , this is partly because the music itself elicits a certain degree of emotional detachment . |
| 11 | This is partly because the memories uncovered may well trigger off others quite spontaneously , and also because the patient will need time to mull over the situation at his leisure . |
| 12 | This is partly because the textiles and coverings have been treated with a sodium borate solution ( to increase their resistance to fire ) which has had an adverse effect on their appearance , and partly because most of the paintwork needs renewing . |
| 13 | This is partly because the effect of the state 's role in the economic sphere has largely been in support of continued private capital accumulation . |
| 14 | This is partly because the council has limited means of enforcing its recommendations , short of the draconian removal of recognition from an entire course . |
| 15 | This is partly because the cadre of antiracism professionals which was created during the boom years of radicalism on the rates has lost its collective tongue : its political confidence has been drained away . |
| 16 | This is partly because the once marked regional and local differences in rates of natural increase — characterized notably by high fertility in rural areas and high mortality in towns — have diminished ( Armitage , 1987 ) . |
| 17 | This is partly because the Byzantine architectural style altered comparatively little in its long history and partly because Venice is not a typical western European or even Italian city ; its roots , owing to its extensive commerce , are as much in the east as in the west . |
| 18 | Oh right , no it 's Olympus and it 's erm why we 're doing this is partly because the European Space Agency is trying to encourage people who were n't previously satellite users to become satellite users and in the next century , or whenever , erm to actually buy commercial satellite time for from them . |
| 19 | It is true that at a rehearsal where the eye has nothing to engage it , a recitative immediately becomes boring ; but at the performance , where between the stage and the audience there are so many objects to entertain the eye , a recitative like this is over before the listeners are aware of it . |
| 20 | The point of all this is not that the entire women 's liberation movement should support the Wages for Housework demand ( as at present formulated ) — a pretty remote possibility — but that it should recognise — as WfH does — the importance of feminism 's attitude to housewives . |
| 21 | The proper reply to this is not that the truth of a view , strictly speaking , is independent of the motivations of those who hold it , although that is so . |
| 22 | It seems that the children have been too easily persuaded to sell their land and houses , for what matters in a drama like this is not that the children should act out what actually happened in real life , but that it should open up and help them understand the dilemmas of industrialisation . |
| 23 | Paradoxically , in most years the outcome of the Defence budgetary process is under-rather than overspending , and this is not because the accounting officers fear the wrath of Parliament , but because of what has become known as the ‘ Bow-Wave Phenomenon ’ , illustrated in figure 3 . |
| 24 | The skulls of an elephant and of a man are different shapes , but this is not because the molecules which fit together to make an elephant 's skull are a different shape from those that make a human skull . |
| 25 | This is not because the law does violate human rights . |
| 26 | This is not because the necessary legal result could not have been achieved using a legacy , but presumably because the composite wording creates a presumption that a trust was intended . |
| 27 | This is not because the family had become less powerful . |
| 28 | This is not because the farm worker is any more of an individualist per se than his industrial counterparts — whatever the stereotypes — but because the circumstances surrounding the farm worker render individual action , rather than collective mobilization , the only realistic alternative for the majority of those working on the land . |
| 29 | ’ This is not because the people have changed their minds but because of the increasing complexity of government , requiring more and more administrative devolution , and more powers to be given to the Scottish Office . |
| 30 | This is not because the family had become less powerful . |