Example sentences of "it [is] [adv] this [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , it 's just this waiting for this sanding sealer you see to dry . |
| 2 | erm I think I do n't know that it 's so much class , I think it 's just this image of girls do this and or women do that and men do the other . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's just this time of year . |
| 4 | It 's also this sort of three roped thing that you go whooooooo |
| 5 | It 's precisely this kind of own-goal anti-environmentalism that Michael Heseltine inveighed against so passionately in his ‘ green renaissance ’ speech to last year 's CBI Conference . |
| 6 | It is particularly this aspect of BSL structure which not only creates the concentration of meaning in a few glosses but is frequently brought into use by deaf people . |
| 7 | It is largely this ability of the entire enterprise to pull together which gave rise to , and strengthened the myth : somehow , ‘ Laura Ashley ’ represented all that was best in traditional Britain . |
| 8 | It is surely this trend in South Africa which must be resisted by those who love rugby around the world . |
| 9 | It is primarily this area of work which has prompted many supporting agencies to identify with WACC and give it financial resources . |
| 10 | Yet it is just this kind of assumption , unsupported by any fieldwork , that is responsible for the proposal for the further Directive . |
| 11 | Any who dare to question this are quickly dealt with by being accused of faithlessness , invoking that frighteningly powerful guilt feeling instilled into the human mind whilst the individual is still very young , and it is just this abuse of childhood which is so surely the primary cause of failure to reduce the constant renewal of the horrors of war . |
| 12 | It is just this denial of anything beyond what is directly given in experience that marks Berkeley out as an empiricist . |
| 13 | But it is just this sort of research which is hardly being practised at all ( with a few exceptions : Conyers 1971 ; Okigbo 1981 ; , and a bibliography on farm systems by Gilbert , Norman & Winch 1980 ) . |
| 14 | But it is just this sort of judgment which those who argue for a unfudgeable standard do not wish to see exercised . |
| 15 | It is exactly this kind of function which gives the first three examples their odd effect . |
| 16 | An MoD spokesman commented ‘ It is exactly this sort of thing which experts must sit down and work out . ’ |
| 17 | As shown in Chapter 1 , it is indeed this type of psychology which Harré et al. |
| 18 | It is possibly this kind of teaching which is most likely to lead to situations such as those found in the Nottingham reading study ( Lunzer and Gardner , 1979 ) , where secondary-school children could explain how to use a contents page or an index perfectly well , but when observed in their work , did not actually use these things much at all . |
| 19 | It is mainly this aspect of the equations which will be discussed below . |
| 20 | As this year 's BBC Reith Lecturer , it is precisely this lack of cultural cross-fertilisation ( and its origins ) which he expounds as the major obstacle to a fully united Europe . |
| 21 | It is precisely this capacity for renewed interpretation that makes literature of more than simply historical interest . |
| 22 | Predictably , it is precisely this expression of a " return to reality " that Nizan himself takes up when assessing Aragon 's text . |
| 23 | Indeed , it is precisely this relationship between a Third World ‘ socialist ’ state and the USSR which makes an examination of Vietnam 's view of a neutral or neutralised zone interesting . |
| 24 | It is precisely this sense of legitimacy which is lacking in capitalist societies today . |
| 25 | Higher up the scale , however , a greater reliance on produce from nearby rural estates might be expected , traded in exchange for a range of urban goods and services ; however , it is precisely this aspect of economic co-operation which is difficult to establish on current evidence . |
| 26 | It is precisely this rewriting of ‘ history ’ as ‘ hystery ’ that is forbidden to woman . |
| 27 | It is precisely this sort of arrangement — ‘ rooms had been taken there because they were to start by an early train on that line in the morning ’ — that leads to a fraught dinner party for Clara Amedroz and the two rivals for her hand at the Great Northern Hotel , King 's Cross , in Anthony Trollope 's The Belton Estate ( 1865 ) . |
| 28 | It is therefore this intention of the speaker ( within the message ) which has to be interpreted . |