Example sentences of "[coord] it is [prep] this [conj] " in BNC.

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1 Secondary school is , after all , nearer to life after school , and it is about this that schools are increasingly urged to think .
2 Other parts of the working ‘ common sense ’ of the police in Easton are the typifications and recipe knowledge which they employ when doing policing , and it is to this that we now turn .
3 Whether in the case of deconcentration ( where parliamentary control is immediate ) or in that of devolution ( where it is mediate ) Parliament remains the central institution of the constitution of the United Kingdom and it is to this that we now turn .
4 Man is unique among the apes in that he grows a long beard , and it is to this that he owes his superior intelligence
5 The majority of investment expenditure is on fixed capital formation rather than inventories and it is to this that we now turn .
6 There is no continuity , no history , no meaning , and it is to this that Rolt ascribes our feelings of futility and alienation .
7 With him went several members of the Beni-Gomez family , and it is from this that their hatred of Rodrigo dates .
8 Recently people have begun to contemplate it as possible fuel in muon catalysed fusion and it is from this that current interest derives .
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