Example sentences of "it [is] this [noun] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 We can change the terminology , we can give it different words , we can talk about making a commitment to Christ , we can talk about salvation , we can talk about conversion , the word , they 're not the important thing it 's this act of a new birth of receiving God in Christ for ourselves , believing that he died for us and are receiving this new life .
2 this this road comes , well there 's the Hippodrome there or was , I do n't suppose it 's there now and you go , at this road here so it 's this way on the West Derby Road comes this way
3 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 .
4 I just need , it 's this bit of the door I need to take off .
5 It 's this neck of the woods I do n't know .
6 It 's this business about the forest .
7 It is this lack in the Rules of Lautro of any such rights for persons affected which forms the general basis of the applicant 's complaint in these proceedings .
8 It is this question of the nature and incidents of these interests which we must now consider .
9 It is this concern of an actor to build a character and to extend his own emotional repertoire which puts the above attempt to draw a comparison between dramatic playing and performance into a proper perspective .
10 It is this feminisation of the labour force that is considered by this research .
11 In the case of Venus thermal tides make a very large contribution and it can be shown that it is this component of the overall circulation that may drive the 4–5 day zonal circulation and thus speed up the axial spin ( section 4.2 ) .
12 Firstly , it is this part of the brain which absorbs the social and sexual training which we receive from our earliest years and it governs our thoughts and actions accordingly .
13 In our judgment it is this feature of the later history that has led to understandable confusion .
14 They go on to note that it is this feature of the market that necessitates detailed regulation to protect the interests of the shareholders , a principal objective of the City Code on Take-overs and Mergers being , for instance , to ensure a fair distribution of the take-over premium among the members .
15 It is this emphasis on the signifier at the expense of the signified which makes poetics the type of discourse most favoured and fostered by structuralism .
16 It is this influence of the mind which ultimately gives each animal its unique view of the world .
17 It is this expertise of the managers which justifies their being treated as the brain of the company , formulating corporate policy to further the ends of the enterprise .
18 It is this sense of the unreal , the surreal , that saves the Jim Rose Circus Sideshow .
19 It is this idea of the universal Church which is a seed of the conciliar movement ( when the Church sought to rule itself through councils ) .
20 It is this rise in the average level of prices above the level people are expecting , P , which stimulates the rise in output : on the typical island suppliers are tending to find a price higher than they guess the average price level to be and are responding by increasing their output and , since this is happening typically and not merely on one island , aggregate output is stimulated .
21 To an extent it is this explosion of the curriculum which has contributed to the moves towards a more standardised , coherent curriculum for our schools and to demands that teachers be subject to a system of appraisal .
22 It is this grasp of the link between the contents of knowledge and human social relations that is so important about the theory of ideology .
23 It is this disorder of the human spirit that leads the sufferer to seek mood-altering substances or behaviours .
24 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 .
25 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 .
26 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 .
27 It is this version of the relationship between adult education and the women 's movement which is at the same time the most challenging and the most precarious .
28 It is this tension between the grandiose themes of cosmology and its mundane workings that sits at the heart of Dennis Overbye 's superb book .
29 It is this view of the experience produced by literature that causes Richards to emphasize the role of the reader rather than the author or the text .
30 It is this region beyond the senses which the mystics and the artists with their new schools of art are trying to describe or depict and which the scientists are trying to explain and understand .
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