Example sentences of "this [is] that [pers pn] [verb] " 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 | Erm one of the problems fish have on this is that they lay their eggs in gravel or something like that and where males have their own nest sometimes another male comes along and er takes it over , hijacks it piracy and interestingly enough what happens in those situations a pirate male will come in , displace the existing male from his nest and fertilize a few eggs and then buzz off . |
| 6 | The main reason for this is that they do n't know how to and probably neither do a lot of their English solicitors . |
| 7 | What 's bad about this is that they do n't take drugs — they 've never touched them — but they want to sell them . |
| 8 | This is that they have a different emphasis according to whether they are being applied to consumer markets or industrial markets . |
| 9 | It , but er the difference this is that we 've got a piece of fabric coming of there with a weight holding it down . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | And my own feeling about this is that we do have to move more to planned expansion . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | However , Mill was against a secret ballot , Mill thought votes ought to be cast publicly and the reason for this is that he thought people ought to be voting on their view of what is right and so therefore they ought to be publicly accountable . |
| 18 | The , the point I 'm raising with this is that he does seem , in that particular piece , he does quite strongly , to me anyway , that that individuation is still very strong |
| 19 | The irony of it is this is that he has done a lot , he gave ten thousand |
| 20 | What he means by this is that he wants to see the thing in loan committee , damn the company 's leverage , and damn the balance-of-payments problems in the Philippines , period . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The most amusing part of all this is that I do n't have a lover . ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The real benefit from this is that you 've got a full page , and a full diary . |
| 26 | The effect of this is that you do n't have to bother calculating anything — if you use 1in thick material , 7½in diameter . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | What 's good about this is that it does n't take too much time . |
| 29 | On a portable , the justification for this is that it reduces the weight , but the BJ-200 is n't a portable . |
| 30 | The advantage of this is that it enables us to start focusing on content . |