Example sentences of "it [adj] [verb] of [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is this in fact that makes it possible to speak of man as a sinner , deserving judgement , because he is capable of guilt and bears responsibility for what he has made of himself ; and precisely here lies the point upon which God 's grace in Jesus Christ comes to bear . |
| 2 | Why is it unhelpful to talk of leadership in terms of qualities ? |
| 3 | Only revolutionary thinkers like Marx found it easy to conceive of situations in which , as it were , 2 + 2 no longer equalled 4 but might equal something else instead or also . |
| 4 | The belated impact of Saussurian semiotics , Althusserian and other neo- and post-marxist theories of ideology , Lacanian psychoanalysis and its account of subjectivity and identity , the tradition of British cultural studies associated with people like Raymond Williams and Stuart Hall , various strands of feminism , Foucault 's concern with discourse and power : these are just some of the developments that today make it impossible to think of culture as a finite and self-sufficient body of contents , customs and traditions . |
| 5 | It all depends of course on what is meant by ‘ the feminine ’ . |
| 6 | Just as we have found it convenient to think of genes as active agents , working purposefully for their own survival , perhaps it might be convenient to think of memes in the same way . |
| 7 | Even within national systems , the structure of the television schedules , and the different interpretations which are given to different injunctions — with different degrees of force — to inform , entertain and educate , make it difficult to think of television as a single formal system . |