Example sentences of "[conj] it is [art] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the earlier view a work was regarded as a more or less arbitrarily agglomerated collection of defamiliarizing devices , but now it becomes important to see it as an entity , a structure or a system where it is the system which determines what the function of a given device will be , whether it will be foregrounded or automatized . |
| 2 | The New Right in choosing to focus on , and criticise , pressure groups , parties , and elected governments as the very stuff of British politics , chooses to ignore other phenomena that are of political significance , such as the power of the secret state that we will be considering in Chapter S. Moreover , although it is a perspective which is critical of things , criticism is restricted to politics , and to democratic politics at that , and there is no attempt to direct critical attention to the functioning of the economic system and to the power which lurks hidden within it . |
| 3 | Traditional examinations rely on a single mark or a grade to indicate the level of performance relative to other pupils , although it is an indication which says nothing about the nature of the achievement . |
| 4 | This is why registration in Part A is preferable although it is the defendant who carries the burden of proof . |
| 5 | It may be that it is a price which none of us will pay . |
| 6 | The government has at last acknowledged that ‘ disappearances ’ do take place and that it is a problem which needs addressing , and Amnesty International expects to be submitting cases for investigation by the Commission . |
| 7 | We seem to feel that it is a sense we can manage without . |
| 8 | A column entitled ‘ Bulletin ’ informs her that Marilyn French will be discussing her new book , Beyond Power : Women , Men and Morals , at a public meeting to be held later in the week in London , and it crosses Robyn 's mind , not for the first time , that it is a pity she lives so far from the metropolis where such exciting events are always happening . |
| 9 | Evelyn Goldsmith ( 1984 , p.407 ) , however , found that ‘ The depiction of objects of which parts are implied as lying beyond the picture frame does not seem to cause any particular problems of interpretation ’ and comments that a researcher , M. Crago , ‘ feels that it is a convention which children quickly learn to accept ’ . |
| 10 | He forbids divorce , but implicitly accepts that it is a man who initiates divorce , ‘ the man who divorces his wife … |
| 11 | In much of the discussion it has been assumed that it is a parent who seeks the information . |
| 12 | I think that whether as er Mr submits and is a guideline case and to be adapted to changing conditions or whether it is a case which lays down a bounding rate , that it is a case which I should follow and that the reasoning leading to the adoption of two percent as the appropriate percentage to be applied still applies today , thus the calculation is one hundred and thirty five thousand pounds times two percent , is two thousand , seven hundred pounds times seventeen , is forty five thousand , nine hundred pounds , to this there is to be added a cost of conversion , thirty two thousand , four hundred and seventy two pounds less the enhancement in value thereby created of twelve thousand , five hundred pounds that is a figure of nineteen thousand , nine hundred and seventy two . |
| 13 | Someone must plough the fields or milk the cows , but much of this endeavour takes place hidden from public view and when a tractor is glimpsed across a field it is often assumed that it is a farmer who is in the cab . |
| 14 | I think if you do n't do that , you 'll very easily become over-influenced at the time by the fact that it is a crisis you 're dealing with . |
| 15 | It is not absolute in the sense that it is a rule which allows no exceptions . |
| 16 | Dominique is shocked , but agrees that it is a car everyone can enjoy , ‘ although my mother would have a heart attack in it ’ , she adds with glee . |
| 17 | That suspicion of the referendum or plebiscite which we noted was partly based on the fact that it is a device which had been used by some dictators and despots to give their rule at least the semblance of a basis in popular consent . |
| 18 | It allows parents to see that the process is not at all mysterious and that it is a device they can use themselves in future for other problems . |
| 19 | My submission is that the identification and analysis of the two key features mentioned above indicate that it is a right which is far from being the general bulwark it purports to be . |
| 20 | Its popularity probably lies in the fact that it is a game which is cheap and easy to play and understand . |
| 21 | Now I think this is a brilliant speech , but I have to admit that it is a speech which , in showing the egoism , the confusion and the self-deception of Eve , assumes a valid order which is being destroyed . |
| 22 | The sceptic insists that there is a difference between the two hypotheses , but that it is evidence-transcendent , i.e. that it is a difference which you can not tell ; and he concludes from this that you do n't know which situation you are really in . |
| 23 | The use of I in the paraphrase suggests moreover that it is the speaker who somehow sees himself before the infinitive event because it implies that he has not yet realized his desire . |
| 24 | This bottom-up approach may well be a very fruitful way of trying to understand what language is and how it works , but that does not mean that it is the best way to teach a language , or that it is the way we use a language when we do know it . |
| 25 | The absence of a retarded signal in lane 2 confirms that it is the cDNA which is bound to the NCp7 in lanes 4–5 . |
| 26 | If one finds , as one sometimes does , that an Act contains a provision that does not make sense , it is only too easy to assume that it is the draftsman who has made an error . |
| 27 | ‘ We put the hyphen between ‘ veteran ’ and ‘ cycle ’ to indicate that it is the cycles which are old , though some of the members are almost as old as the machines , ’ Ian claimed . |
| 28 | In her other essay she considers the theme of female deceptiveness in those scriptures , arguing that it is the text itself which is deceptive through its failing to name the real problem : namely that the power relations which pertained between men and women forced women to seek to obtain their ends through underhand means , while at the same time the deviousness of women is used to justify their inferior position . |
| 29 | Commentary … allows us to say something other than the text itself , but on condition that it is the text itself which is said , and in a sense completed . |
| 30 | Every slimming club leader knows that it is the member who registers a good weight loss at her weekly weigh-in who is most likely to keep up her dieting and return to the club next week , while the member who records a disappointingly low weight loss is the most likely to drop out . |