Example sentences of "it is this " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is this characteristic which renders fundamentalist religion open to large numbers of fissures in communities , with preachers or sections of congregations shaking the dust from their feet and moving off to build or buy another church . |
| 2 | And yet , wrote Harsnet , it is this which excites me , this which makes me want to go on . |
| 3 | It is this alarming development which most concerns the National Amenity Societies represented in this report . |
| 4 | It is this logic of practice which effectively negates most research and is perhaps the main reason that between 1979 and 1988 , only one of the research papers I have compiled has been looked at by senior officers . |
| 5 | It is this special knowledge , or gnosis , which hopefully can make the inside ethnography so different and illuminating . |
| 6 | Again it is this incomprehension of social mobility which seems to have caused my ACC to describe an officer who took a degree and then left to become a solicitor as ‘ a bad experience for the force ’ ( and not a gain for society ) . |
| 7 | It is this which some journalists , using a phrase made popular by A.M. Klein , have referred to as his ‘ stony , Semitic stare . ’ |
| 8 | It is this which partially explains Leonard 's openness to , and understanding of , Catholicism which we find in his poems , books and songs . |
| 9 | Thus the priests were known in Hebrew as the Kohanim — the Cohens — and it is this name ( which Leonard later signified in his poetry by references to his ‘ blood ’ ) , which exerted most influence on Leonard , primarily in his formative years , but throughout his career — consciously and otherwise . |
| 10 | But this should not obscure from us the fact that Judaism resisted stoutly the prudery that stultified sexuality throughout the West , and always retained a high and honoured place for bodily functioning and its pleasures — as becomes indeed , a gift from God : ‘ Man and woman are one body and one soul , ( oneness reasserted , as ever ) , and it is this powerful union which it projects and enhances . |
| 11 | It is this which suggests the secondary level . |
| 12 | It is this which produces Leonard 's startling use of juxtaposition , which goes on to become a disavowal technique . ) |
| 13 | It is this question which is the ultimate one ; the others are a screen to hide modern man from his real self , as T.S . |
| 14 | It is this difference of way which constitutes the difference of ‘ feel ’ in their experience . |
| 15 | This is ‘ up front in consciousness ’ and it is this which determines his answer , in the absence of central control . |
| 16 | It is this : saying that the character of ‘ mental representations ’ ( beliefs and imaginings , for example ) can be understood only in terms of a history of activity , or that it is the subject 's conception of himself as active in relation to the world which gives these ‘ representations ’ their ‘ content ’ or ‘ semantics ’ ( I hope to have shown something like this ) is simply irrelevant to the mind-body problem . |
| 17 | Its inventor Kevin Inkster started with a loose chain on a disc , and it is this formation that Toolbox have chosen . |
| 18 | It is this aspect of the craft that I want to look at first this month . |
| 19 | Each table has 12 which , with six fat legs , could probably hold the roof up but it is this very rigidity that makes the construction hard . |
| 20 | It is this careful attention to traditional dance rhythms which is so important to the style of both ballets , although neither can be called a character or national work ( see page 28 ) . |
| 21 | It is this relationship which led to Ernest Newman 's remark that , ‘ The ballet was living music ’ ( see page 41 ) . |
| 22 | It is this same delicate use of pointes throughout Ashton 's ballets which gives extra finesse to the danseuses ' work . |
| 23 | It is this opening up and exposure of traditional dance that is so important when choreographers attempt to give a realistic atmosphere to the style and expression of their work . |
| 24 | It is this strong contrast between the two parts which is so important to maintain whether the dances are in demi-caractère or character ( authentic ) style . |
| 25 | It is this aspect of military style that is well worth studying for the precision with which a battalion of soldiers makes patterns such as can be seen at the British ceremony of ‘ Trooping the Colour ’ . |
| 26 | ‘ Lord , what fools we mortals be ’ , are Shakespeare 's own words and it is this particular comment that Ashton has used as the keynote to the adventures in the forest . |
| 27 | It is this which makes the performance capable of repetition . |
| 28 | It is this particular way of playing which makes Ashton 's La Fille Mal Gardée what can be called a National Ballet in the same sense that both The Firebird and Petrushka can be called Russian National Ballets and Rodeo and Fall River Legend American . |
| 29 | And it is this approach which leads to denunciation of Derrida as a nihilist ; in Frederick Crews 's words , ‘ an intellectual nihilist , though a learned and exuberant one ’ . |
| 30 | It is this built-in contradiction and barrier to explication that leads to so much discussion of what Derrida really means by those riddling notions that have become slogans : such as , there is no such thing as perception ; writing is prior to speech ; there is nothing outside the text . |