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

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1 Mind or memory is that total creative capacity for consciousness , which also contains that which is below the level of immediate recognition — man 's full potential for knowledge , which is like God himself It is the theatre of human integrity which involves the other two faculties , " resoun " and " will " .
2 For the leaders of the movement a dilution of the radical goals is attractive because it will reduce the stigma attached to the movement and reduce the tension between it and the wider society of which it is a part .
3 A socio-technical system must also satisfy the financial conditions of the industry of which it is a part .
4 More generally , Blum ( 1981 ) concluded from an examination of 27 countries that the form which industrial relations takes in any one nation does markedly reflect the culture of which it is a part .
5 If the family can be said to perform functions for the society of which it is a part , it performs these functions indirectly ( that is , through the individuals who , as adults , move out of their own families of origin and form families of procreation ) , and possesses a certain degree of latitude as to the performance of these functions .
6 Just as the poem reflects on the literary tradition of which it is a part — Eliot mentioned his own deliberate use of Cleveland and Benlowes as well as Blake and early Yeats — it could also be read as a celebration of English history , of a tradition which would survive the betrayals of the contemporary generation :
7 This association may be by virtue of some formal semantic connection ( good , for example , associates with its opposite bad ; animal with any example of an animal like horse ; violin with orchestra of which it is a part ) , or it may be because words are felt to belong to some more vaguely defined lexical group ( rock star ; world tour ; millionaire ; yacht ) .
8 A second approach to conceptualizing a general education is in terms of the society or culture of which it is a part .
9 The idea that the curriculum can be seen in terms of the society or culture of which it is a part is both ancient and recent .
10 Alternatively the nature of any institution is read off from its underlying role in reproducing the social structure of which it is a part .
11 The system is one in which a cabinet of ministers is dependent for its existence on the legislature of which it is a part , the members of the executive being also members of the legislature .
12 A university depends on the community of which it is a part .
13 And what of the notions of excellence of which it is a symbol ?
14 The German government , forced to cover currency losses on Deutsche Aerospace 's work for Airbus , the pan-European aircraft consortium of which it is a member , is reluctant to put up yet more taxpayers ' money to back Mr Schrempp 's ambitious and controversial scheme to build a 130-seat regional airliner outside the Airbus consortium .
15 A company qualifies as a small company for the purposes of filing abbreviated accounts if , ( a ) following s 246(4) neither the company , nor any company in the group of which it is a member , is : a public company or a body corporate ( not being a company ) that has power under its constitution to offer its shares or debentures to the public and may lawfully exercise that power ; a bank ; an insurance company ; or an authorised person under the Financial Services Act 1986 .
16 If the actuary is an employee or officer of the reporting company , or of the group of which it is a member , this fact should be disclosed
17 Even if it meets these conditions , it will not be entitled to the concessions unless , at no time during the year , has it , or any member of the group of which it is a member , been a public company , a banking or insurance company or an authorised person under the Financial Services Acts and , if it is a parent company , unless the group qualifies as a small or medium-sized group .
18 He urged the zoo authorities to return the attacking elephant to Chester ‘ where there is a social group of elephants of which it is a member ’ .
19 It is also time to worry , for such a strong consensus generally has an over-reaction on its coat-tails , one that could do more damage than the action to which it is a response .
20 What I 'm trying to get a feel for is the level at which it is a consideration .
21 In this essay I have tried to make the most of one such region — in which the connection between one 's everyday experience of bodily sensations and one 's conception of the relation of body and mind seems fairly plain : to accept the James-type account , and the general conceptual background of which it is a symptom , is to deny one 's everyday experience of the difference between a pain in one 's foot and a pain in one 's stomach .
22 In the interests of the maintenance of international peace and security , Article 35 ( 2 ) of the United Nations Charter allows a non-member to bring a dispute to which it is a party to the attention of either organ of the Organisation , provided it accepts in advance the obligations of the pacific settlement of disputes for the purposes of the dispute .
23 ( 16 ) The bidder may require consents for the takeover under existing contracts to which it is a party .
24 ENGLISH cricket yesterday finally became the sport in which it is a crime to tell the truth .
25 The group has invested £1.7m in two wind farms via a company called Wind Resources , in which it is a 45% shareholder .
26 And since economic practice is defined by a mode of production , the character of a given economic practice will be determined by the whole of which it is an element , and may be quite unlike its counterparts in other societies .
27 Now the lens in the eye forms an image on the retina , and , granted that physical space is Euclidean , that light travels in straight lines , that the lens in the eye is optically perfect , that the retina is uniformly curved , and so on , the image will be related by the mathematical laws of perspective to the object of which it is an image .
28 Oakeshott examines the most important modes of experience , which he identifies as science , history , and practice , in order to show how their methods are partial and defective and therefore do not take us nearer the overall coherence of the world of experience which it is the objective of philosophy to pursue .
29 What I wish rather to do is to show the extent to which it is the case that the bible is patriarchal in its presuppositions .
30 This tort is not directly referred to in section 13 , except in so far as the ‘ nominate ’ torts above are species of which it is the genus .
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