Example sentences of "[coord] it [be] this [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it 's this journey from external reality to the profound truths of art , a journey which takes Proust through a series of investigations of the nature of time , the nature of the intellect , the nature of memory , it 's this journey which I must now attempt to trace , and I perhaps just ought to say that I think I get abstract once or twice from this point onwards . |
| 2 | I c I , I tell this story cos I think it illustrates it very much , I expect most of you have er if you have n't been you 've heard of Dale in Derbyshire , and it 's this river with a , a lovely walk either side of the river , you walk along the side and then you come to the point where there 's a bend in the river and there 's these gorgeous great enormous stepping stones . |
| 3 | But — and it 's this sort of complication that makes him I think such a remarkable man — although that did happen then , for the next ten , twelve years , he was entirely preoccupied , almost entirely preoccupied with something else , and this something else erm originates from the other revolution that he underwent at this time , a revolution that occurred after a visit to an international mathematical congress in Paris , where he met the Italian mathematician Peano . |
| 4 | The fourth type of love is what the New Testament calls agape and it is this kind of love to which Jesus refers in calling on us to love our neighbour as ourself . |
| 5 | A literally incalculable number of wives , ex-wives , widows and children were also engaged in casual work which is not recorded by the census , and it is this kind of employment , usually undertaken at the dictates of the family economy , that will be considered briefly here . |
| 6 | This misrecognition later becomes the ‘ ego ideal ’ which affords identification with idealised others , and it is this possibility of identification which constitutes another aspect of pleasure in film-viewing , as well as the voyeuristic mode posited by Freud . |
| 7 | And it is this spirit of competitiveness which can cause a link to be forged between the " categorical assertions " of religions and the dark side of religion . |
| 8 | All Welsh counties for instance are limited to increasing their budgets of one point seven on point seven five percent over nineteen ninety three , ninety four are as the cities of Cardiff and Swansea and the borough of Newport and it is this cap of one point seven percent as my honourable friend for Cardiff South and Penarth has pointed out , which is at the route of the funding problems of the South Wales police authority area . |
| 9 | It might appear , from the arguments and prejudices just considered , that the nature of the commitment dividing holists from individualists has already emerged : holists , it seems , are in effect determinists , and it is this feature of their theories that individualists are anxious to reject . |
| 10 | This is what the Englishness of England is made of , and it is this sense of place and the particular which we are currently in danger of losing , just as we come to understand it more clearly . |
| 11 | The actual point of this transition depends on several factors and it is this change of response which takes some getting used to , particularly for those with lots of fixed-wing experience . |
| 12 | This type of investment , which involves the establishment of an enterprise over which the parent company exercises decisive management control , is termed foreign direct investment ( FDI ) , and it is this type of foreign investment with which this chapter is mainly concerned . |
| 13 | It is a text which explores the pain and grief caused by having one 's desires destroyed by the pressures of social convention and it is this set of emotions which has sustained its reputation in gay subcultures . |
| 14 | During this time Coe was on the dole and living in Bermondsey , and it is this period of his life that gave him the basis for The Dwarves of Death . |
| 15 | It also exonerates the community from taking on some of these tasks — caring for the elderly , the chronically sick and the disabled , and it is this aspects of the emphasis on family responsibility that produces scepticism about the motivation of exponents of active citizenship : it is seen as a substitute for the state 's responsibility for the social element of the citizenship of entitlement . |
| 16 | And it is this sort of awareness , which involves deliberation and reflection on instances of puzzlement , that allows children to exert increasing control over their mental life , ultimately leading to independence of thought . |
| 17 | Language in its significant sense is that vocal gesture which tends to arouse in the individual the attitude which it arouses in others , and it is this perfecting of the self by the gesture which mediates the social activities that gives rise to the process of taking the role of the other . |
| 18 | The team members previously worked on developing the software optimising compilers for Elbrus , and it is this technology in particular that SunPro wants to take to the US . |
| 19 | Unlike /h/ , however , [ r ] seems to have been lost quite early in a forerunner of the institutional British accent ( RP ) at a time when consciousness of the standard ideology was beginning to develop , and it is this difference in the social evaluation of ( r ) and ( h ) which seems to be the explanation for dominant attitudes to it . |
| 20 | And it is this feeling of confusion which teacher John Mann pinpoints as one of the most damaging aspects of the current controversy . |
| 21 | And it is this recourse to the Saussurean model which gives rise to the most innovative of structuralism 's extensions of the linguistic analogy : poetics . |
| 22 | Britain 's armed forces were not fully committed to the struggle until after D Day , and it is this gap in time between the turn of fortune and the invasion of Europe that saw the most intense interest in post-war planning and , in particular , full employment policy . |
| 23 | Er narcissism and narcissism , narcissistic libido is , is , is that part of libido which is concerned with the ego and it is this aspect of the libido especially which is involved in a group , because as I think erm somebody said over here when developing this point , this leads to for example a group narcissism . |
| 24 | The idea of service is extended to include the work that the manager does when he leaves his office , and it is this devotion to duty which marks him off from all the others . |
| 25 | This ‘ In nomine ’ of Taverner 's is an almost exact transcription of the section ‘ In nomine Domini ’ of the Benedictus of his Mass Gloria tibi Trinitas ( on the Sarum version of a Vesper antiphon for Trinity Sunday ) , and it was this segment of plainsong , sometimes with quotation of Taverner 's other parts , which served generations of English composers as cantus firmus for contrapuntal ‘ fancies ’ . |
| 26 | ‘ I told them I was leaving after the first gig and it was this bloke from Dik Dik Dimorphic who was going on at me saying that I should n't leave . |
| 27 | Clare had such a sense of adventure — and it was this love of an active life that made what happened doubly hard to bear . |
| 28 | More plausibly , both males and females are said to return to the pond of their birth to breed , and it was this aspect of toad lore that Dr Chris Reading of Furzebrook Research Station of Dorset and Drs Jon Loman and Thomas Madsen of the University of Lund in Sweden set out to investigate ( Journal of Zoology , vol. 225 , pp201–11 ) . |
| 29 | He created around himself at Hamilton Terrace a kind of family and it was this aspect of his life that allowed Susan Einzig to conceive of herself as a mother figure . |
| 30 | No I had a a chap at the door at half past four this afternoon and it was this woman for the British Market Research Bureau er |