Example sentences of "it is this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is this integrity — this sense of being truly genuine — which proves crucial to visionary leadership , and makes it impossible to translate into a general formula . |
| 2 | ‘ His best attempt at negotiating the distance between admiration of the poetry and dislike for the individual who created it is this metaphor , in his introduction : ‘ When he found his authentic voice in the late 1940s , the beautiful flowers of his poetry were already growing on long stalks out of pretty dismal ground ’ — a botanical conceit designed to leave Larkin soiled , but the poetry ready for picking . |
| 3 | I would perhaps rather always see the " real " world in respect to art in these terms — that to know an object is to transform it , and it is this transformation which is the form and imagery of art . |
| 4 | It is this consideration which leads directly to the way that social representation theorists conceive of the process of anchoring , and the need to widen this conception , so that everyday thinking can be understood in terms of opposing psychological processes . |
| 5 | The second will be evoked when the consequences of the stimulus are uncertain ; it is this reflex that tracks the value of α. * |
| 6 | wolf suggests that it is this sector that provides the catalyst for rebellion and he shows how , in six major revolutions in the world , it is the middle peasantry who have formed the pivotal group for peasant action . |
| 7 | It is this sector that has suffered most from the low pay strategies of the Conservatives and from unemployment . |
| 8 | It is this lack in the Rules of Lautro of any such rights for persons affected which forms the general basis of the applicant 's complaint in these proceedings . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It is this lack of codified certainty that makes a study of it so fraught with difficulty . |
| 11 | We can suppose , then , that only justified beliefs can justify others ; and it is this thought which generates the regress . |
| 12 | And it is this approach which leads to denunciation of Derrida as a nihilist ; in Frederick Crews 's words , ‘ an intellectual nihilist , though a learned and exuberant one ’ . |
| 13 | It is this approach which Sweden has begun to adopt . |
| 14 | Thirty kilometres from Paris , it is this village of 6,000 inhabitants which is to be the scene of an ambitious project in illusionism which seeks to recreate the world of the Impressionists . |
| 15 | It is this quantity which is normally determined during calorimetric experiments ( see below ) . |
| 16 | Does he agree that there is only one place where the constitution of the United Kingdom can be changed , and it is this Parliament ? |
| 17 | It is this procedure , described in Chapter 6 on the application of the hierarchical engineering records management system , that can be used to control and manage the design process . |
| 18 | It is this procedure , which involves turning a reductionist methodology into a reductionist philosophy , that is the manoeuvre so popular among molecular biologists and some geneticists , but , fortunately , is rather rarer among psychologists or neurobiologists . |
| 19 | It is this will which is inherited . |
| 20 | Sometimes , it is this flash of white belly that gives them away when you are roaming the river bank trying to spot them . |
| 21 | The judge however found that it was published , and it is this ruling that Unix Labs is contesting . |
| 22 | With difficulty , but I think it is fair to say as well it has got great compensations , because if you build walls , if you 're hiding , if you 're pretending , if you 're always subscribing parents and stopping them from coming in you make problems ; parents worry and suspect that there are problems behind those closed doors , and I think this is why we have established fifteen different parent teacher groups which meet regularly in different parts of Sussex , from Seaford to Shoreham , to Hove , to Brighton , and in small groups of ten/fifteen/twenty they 'll sit down with a teacher and they do n't just do fund raising they thrash out the different aspects of their children 's education and then they come in and meet in a main committee and I think it is this involvement that enables the parents and the teachers to work very closely together . |
| 23 | It is this intimacy which permits and often begets intensity , and the world of the spirit is much the poorer when such works are suppressed . |
| 24 | It is this person 's duty to foster and maintain communication with affiliated member groups and other interested groups . |
| 25 | It is this question which is the ultimate one ; the others are a screen to hide modern man from his real self , as T.S . |
| 26 | It is this question of the nature and incidents of these interests which we must now consider . |
| 27 | There is more to say about this problem , but the essence of it is this question of fact . |
| 28 | It is this question that is crucial to Chapter 6 . |
| 29 | Thus the priests were known in Hebrew as the Kohanim — the Cohens — and it is this name ( which Leonard later signified in his poetry by references to his ‘ blood ’ ) , which exerted most influence on Leonard , primarily in his formative years , but throughout his career — consciously and otherwise . |
| 30 | 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 ) . |