Example sentences of "it is this [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | There is more to say about this problem , but the essence of it is this question of fact . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | If anything stands at variance with the evidence , it is this system of beliefs . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It is this element of Charlie that has perhaps made him popular with other ( albeit less twisted ) musicians . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It is this principle of reinvestment and growth that is the basis of capitalism . |
| 12 | It is this feature of Beccaria 's programme that has caused more problems than probably anything else , as we shall see later . |
| 13 | It is this feature of price/yield relationships that ensures that the nearer an instrument approaches maturity , the more liquid it becomes . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | How can I avoid seeing that it is this kind of government that threatens my grandchildren ? ’ |
| 18 | It is this kind of darkness which is at the heart of the Cloud-author 's work and constitutes the cloud of unknowing . |
| 19 | It is this kind of talk that we are calling ‘ argumentative talk , in which category we include exploratory talk . |
| 20 | It is this kind of imbalance that Opportunity 2000 is designed to redress . |
| 21 | It is this kind of situation that is indicated in the first objective in the examples above . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It is this kind of inference that Grice dubs an implicature , or more properly a conversational implicature . |
| 24 | It is this kind of theft that has boosted statistics to the extent that Holland has become one of the most criminal countries in the world . |
| 25 | It is this kind of attention to detail that keeps Wimpey in the forefront of the fight to reduce injury and damage accidents on construction sites . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ It is this kind of package of courses which is likely to appeal , ’ she says . |
| 27 | It is this delay between cause and effect that is fundamental to the observed viscoelastic response and the three major examples of this hysteresis effect are |
| 28 | It is this degree of concentration I want you to work towards , using the haiku both as a point of departure and as a discipline you frequently return to . |
| 29 | It is this sense of fortification which the final lines of this poem give us . |
| 30 | It is this sense of identification that gives hope to the newcomers that others will understand their fears and actions and show them the route to recovery . |