Example sentences of "it [is] this [noun] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Women still , on the whole , have to achieve more than men to get to the same level in certain ways , but I think basically it 's this question of choice . |
| 2 | It 's this sense of proportion is n't it ? |
| 3 | Oh , I 'd forgotten that , yes , it 's this sort of tendency that Liverpool 's always been good , but I remember . |
| 4 | It 's this sort of stress that can cause heart disease . |
| 5 | It 's this sort of efficiency that , translated into business terms , has made the NCDL such a successful charity . |
| 6 | It 's this sort of violence that 's most commonplace in Britain ; teenagers versus teenagers . |
| 7 | or they can but a tiny amount , it 's this sort of dogma , this blind faith , has put commonsense right out of the window completely out the window |
| 8 | It 's this sort of thing , I , well I 'm sure you said that . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | that , that do you it , it 's this sort of catch twenty two between erm land reform and mass mobilization . |
| 11 | And yet , it 's this region of slumbag Manchester that has spawned one of the rainy city 's brightest current hopes , the Paris Angels . |
| 12 | And yet , it 's this region of slumbag Manchester that has spawned one of the rainy city 's brightest current hopes , the Paris Angels . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's this business of acceleration faking gravity again — what you found out on the Big Dipper . |
| 14 | It 's this side of Iceland on the right . |
| 15 | It 's this combination of diversity and conviction which presents such a peculiar problem . |
| 16 | It is this lack of control which we have to think of when arguing on the merits of strengthening participatory democracy to achieve active citizenship . |
| 17 | There is more to say about this problem , but the essence of it is this question of fact . |
| 18 | It is this level of normalisation that is usually used as the basis for the design of the data model , as an end result of data analysis , and for mapping onto a database ( the logical schema ) . |
| 19 | It is this level of normalisation that is usually used as the basis for the design of the data model , as an end result on data analysis . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | If anything stands at variance with the evidence , it is this system of beliefs . |
| 22 | It is this part of Italy which today possesses the finest Byzantine architecture and art in the peninsula , in Ravenna itself , in Venice and the Venetian Lagoon and in Istria . |
| 23 | It is this element of Charlie that has perhaps made him popular with other ( albeit less twisted ) musicians . |
| 24 | It is this existence of policies determining most everyday practice in a department that provides the most crucial group of constraints for a new minister . |
| 25 | It is this mixture of compliance and argumentativeness which not only bores and irritates Belville but actually drives him back to his old pursuits — drinking and lechery . |
| 26 | It is this principle of reinvestment and growth that is the basis of capitalism . |
| 27 | It is this feature of Beccaria 's programme that has caused more problems than probably anything else , as we shall see later . |
| 28 | It is this feature of price/yield relationships that ensures that the nearer an instrument approaches maturity , the more liquid it becomes . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | These steps might , at first sight , appear unnecessary and bureaucratic but it is this flow of information between practitioners , even where there is a fee dispute , that enables the ‘ public interest ’ to be upheld . |