Example sentences of "it is [det] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is all things to all men … and this is perhaps its number one axiom . |
| 2 | It is all grist to the mill of those who like to argue that Japan has succeeded because it works by different rules from those in the West . |
| 3 | He does n't categorize in good , bad , and not so bad , it is all sin to him and as sinners , he loves us . |
| 4 | That is not democracy or power to the people — it is all power to an autarchy of unaccountable conservative central bankers . |
| 5 | It is this turn to ‘ passivity ’ which remains critical to this very day ; today 's tabloid press can only be reinforcing a process which began well over a century ago . |
| 6 | It is this reference to contemplative life as a state that Hilton refers to as " verrei contemplatif " in Mixed Life . |
| 7 | It is this capacity to which RE must seek to relate , enabling transference of skills from the general to the religious sphere of enquiry . |
| 8 | And it is this recourse to the Saussurean model which gives rise to the most innovative of structuralism 's extensions of the linguistic analogy : poetics . |
| 9 | It is this commitment to visually focused investigation which forms a common thread amongst the scholars . |
| 10 | It is this commitment to customer service which singles out the reliable manufacturers . |
| 11 | The idea of service is extended to include the work that the manager does when he leaves his office , and it is this devotion to duty which marks him off from all the others . |
| 12 | It is these changes to the carriage controls that knitters sometimes find hard to master , so let's look in detail at what the carriage controls do . |
| 13 | It is another pointer to that ambiguity which is so much a characteristic of his life and work , in which the essential orderliness and formal morality of his upbringing clash with his more libertarian — and sometimes libertine — impulses and imagination . |
| 14 | Traditionalists feel it is another move to the unrealistic ‘ no-one 's a failure , everyone 's a winner ’ mentality . |