Example sentences of "it is this [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | It is this concrete rendering of the space around the highly fragmented objects that gives these paintings a sensation of almost unprecedented complexity . |
2 | Medical advances almost invariably increase the demands on doctors ' time , and it is this increased intensity of working that has made the long hours of many doctors intolerable . |
3 | It is this increased rate of destruction of red cells which is the primary cause of the anaemia which characterises this group of disorders . |
4 | It is this increased amount of aluminium that may damage the heart by interfering with its electrical activities . |
5 | It is this strong contrast between the two parts which is so important to maintain whether the dances are in demi-caractère or character ( authentic ) style . |
6 | Yet it is this deadly logic of deterrence that condemns the world to live under the shadow of the threat of nuclear annihilation . |
7 | It is this great variety of tasks that has made research into the production history of each individual aircraft so interesting , and the principal reason why the Mystère/Falcon 20 was chosen for this monograph . |
8 | Perhaps it is this bicameral quality in the American mind that lets the citizen read of the all-out official ‘ war on drugs ’ and ‘ war on terrorism ’ on one page , and then turn the page and read of the CIA sharing a bank with Miami cartels and Abu Nidal , and still go on as if he inhabited a ‘ normal world ’ . |
9 | That has made a huge difference , and in terms of the response to the issues among so-called ‘ decision-makers ’ it is this increasing ability on the part of the environmental organisations to marshal good accurate evidence behind them that has begun to tilt the balance of opinion in their favour . |
10 | His interpretation of his data is that the deaf child is linguistically deprived from the very beginning and it is this early lack of language stimulation which creates the problem . |
11 | It is this abrasive commitment to this duties which , in part , has won Skinner the Whitbread Player of the Month Award . |
12 | A and it is this stupid business of of in a way you know the whole idea that er it 's beyond us you know . |
13 | It is this comprehensive perspective on the human condition that social anthropology seeks to achieve . |
14 | We need not wait for evil to swoop out of the cosmos or ascend from the depths of hell : it is here now , not incarnate in human form but embodied in the structures and philosophies of our modern culture.l It is this contemporary culture with which we must grapple and fight . |
15 | Indeed , it is this central ambiguity in its relation to the world , and the specific form that this ambiguity takes , which is one of its most distinctive features . |
16 | It is this skewed nature of the existing private print media that has called for the participation of the government in the ownership and operation of the print media in this country . |
17 | It is this skewed nature of the existing private print media that has called for the participation of the government in the ownership and operation of the print media in this country . |
18 | If the phase excitation is changed it is this other pair of rotor teeth which align with the newly-excited stator teeth . |
19 | It is this insoluble marriage of Roman Catholicism to militant Irish republicanism , where the latter is seen as the ‘ political ’ expression and promoter of the former , which makes what should otherwise be possible , namely the co-existence of the political expressions of Protestantism and Roman Catholicism impossible in Ireland . |
20 | It is this sharp awareness of an inner process which will release men from the constraints of time , that makes those who make enormous emotional investment in material enterprises look incredibly foolish : Heaven is the only true object of human desire and it must be particularly and discreetly nourished in a continual process of growth . |
21 | It is this party-to-party dimension of relations , and a particularly ‘ centralist ’ and ‘ internationalist ’ notion of accountability , which keeps these diversities within limits and maintains élite solidarity in fact as well as in name . |
22 | It is this fascinating shift in power that forms the basis of Hugo Vickers ' compelling article about the Waleses . |
23 | It is this constitutive role of religious belief that so often comes to mind when the words science and religion are juxtaposed ; for the explanatory pretensions of the world 's religions have made them vulnerable to scientific advance . |
24 | It is this Greek version of the Hebrew scriptures with which the author of Matthew — who intends to say that the prophecy has been fulfilled — would have been familiar . |
25 | It is this spontaneous participation in the being of God in whom is " full rest " ( 43.314b. – 114 ) that was lost at the Fall . |
26 | That is part of the meaning revealed through the Incarnation and it is this spontaneous integrity of being that mystics glimpse and in so doing serve and inspire the Christian society , of which they are a part , struggling to repair the ravages of sin . |
27 | It is this hard core of unemployed — that is , those who have been out of work longest — that makes up a large part of the new underclass . |
28 | It is this constant comparison with real paddlers that is important . |
29 | It is this footloose quality of so many of the potentes in Charles 's reign which belies Dhondt 's tidy territorial model . |
30 | But it is this silly attitude towards using appropriate tackle that is the main factor contributing to the barbel 's demand for increasingly smaller hooks . |