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

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1 For surely it is on those achievements we are entitled to be judged .
2 In the middle ages Margaret had had a wonderful time ; women had understood then that it was not to other mothers that you turn in childbirth , it is to those women who have lived it , who have been down between the dragon 's teeth , have travelled the dragons ' pathways and have lurked in the dark and boiling belly of pain , have been chewed and digested and emerged .
3 I wonder how important it is for those players because the the competition over here has its detractors , what about over there , I ca n't imagine the Italians being that bothered about doing well in this competition , certainly the gates over there do n't suggest that it 's that important ?
4 For those theses who have only one recorded citation , the citation period is zero , as it is for those theses whose citations all fall within a single year .
5 It is extraordinary that it is easier for the EC to export to Hungary , Czechoslovakia and Poland than it is for those countries to export to the EC .
6 The key distinction is not between ‘ electronic ’ and ‘ non-electronic ’ artefacts ; it is between those artefacts which can be organised for use via telecommunication connection and those which can not [ Lester ( 1985 ) ] .
7 For example , if aggressiveness can be undoubtedly shown to be an inherited trait rather than a learned response — as it is in those men with the extra male chromosome — we would be in a position to reject all conceptions which would produce an excessively aggressive individual .
8 it is in those sectors of the housing market where government has taken most control and which provide cheap accommodation , that there is most restriction on entry for migrants .
9 The ‘ nation ’ is not as obvious a fall-back position everywhere as it is in those parts of the globe whose frontiers were drawn on Wilsonian-Leninist lines after 1918 , and neither is that old-time religion .
10 In some respects , temporary working in manufacturing is as traditional as it is in those parts of the service sector we have just examined .
11 It is like those cases where women were , perhaps are , discriminated against because they were not ‘ strong ’ enough for a job or part of a job ; but most people would prefer for such a task a strapping wench to a seven-stone male weakling , who gets the sand kicked into his eyes by the beach bully , courtesy of the Charles Atlas advert .
12 A house of sin you may call it , but not a house of darkness for the candles are never out , and it is like those countries far in the north where it is as clear at mid-night as at mid-day …
13 I suppose it is like those astrology charts that appear in the newspaper .
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