Example sentences of "it be this [noun] [pron] [vb -s] " in BNC.

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1 er it were this mechanic who lives in who 's , who knows a good mate of Tony 's and he 's told Tony Tony told him like and he says right , he said leave the car to me .
2 However , it 's the notes in the former chord which by intervallic interchange become chromatic notes in the latter chord , and it 's this approach which produces the most effective results .
3 It 's this combination which has made Stoddard Templeton the proud holders of the Royal Warrant since 1966 .
4 This is the role of commercial group 's distribution services and it 's this department which has drawn up a new packaging policy and code of practice .
5 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 .
6 We can suppose , then , that only justified beliefs can justify others ; and it is this thought which generates the regress .
7 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 ’ .
8 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 .
9 It is this expectation which gives the work its edge and you will see a side of Peter Pan and the Ferry Girl which perhaps only exists in our darker moments .
10 Thus the tied cottage system emerged directly from the desire of farmers to control labour supplies — and it is this concern which remains at the heart of the system today .
11 It is this requirement which requires a listing of the population members , or units , from which the sample may be drawn using a random procedure .
12 It is this diversity which provides the fresh and stimulating argument which makes the Cambridge Seminar format so successful — and it is much helped by the differing backgrounds of the members .
13 It is this conflict which leads increasingly to the urge to treat people as groups rather than as individuals — but it is an abnegation of responsibility on the part of the leaders and for the future it will not do .
14 It is this publication which gives them their force as a form of evaluation of schools , particularly as the intention of this part of the Act was to give parents information upon which to base their choice of school .
15 It may well be that there are good reasons for following customary practices or for rejecting them in favour of new ones , but teachers ought to know what these reasons are , for it is this knowledge which provides for adaptability , the alternative realization of principles through techniques appropriate to different instructional settings .
16 Today , gold is mixed with a variety of alloys to enhance these qualities , and it is this mixture which determines its value and purity .
17 In my opinion it is this flexibility which has given English primary education its unique quality .
18 It is this popularity which has prompted the management to look at the possibility of introducing these fit bodies to the joys of tennis , by offering complimentary tennis tuition , a worthy initiative and one which can only enhance the game in the club and its surrounding area .
19 It is this characteristic which renders fundamentalist religion open to large numbers of fissures in communities , with preachers or sections of congregations shaking the dust from their feet and moving off to build or buy another church .
20 Until the slightly contrasting tendencies become more manifest in the later-second century ( with the trend to fully centralised designs etc. ) it is this characteristic which makes these designs complementary .
21 It is this feature which lends plausibility to the suggestion that the pictures , fitted into the recesses left for them , were not to be enjoyed as objects for themselves but as part of the grand architectural design of the two rooms .
22 When a speaker takes the trouble to use a restrictive relative clause in a noun phrase equipped with a definite article but no attributive adjective , it will naturally be presumed that it is this clause which makes recognition possible ; there is no need for such an assumption when the clause is non-restrictive .
23 I believe that each of us has what I term a spirit ( but which I am quite happy for others to call the soul , the higher self , the inner self — or any of dozens of different names ) and that it is this spirit which has a journey to make through several lifetimes .
24 Today , it is this factor which determines whether they will be sold as fresh fruit or processed into juice or sauce .
25 It is this act which introduces the probabilistic element , the jarring discontinuity in the system 's experience .
26 It is this rage which draws us in , which has us participating in Hemingway 's feelings before we know it , that makes the piece so powerful .
27 Nor were any examples found of we or you co-occurring with a singular verb , and in a very real sense it is this constraint which distinguishes the Belfast vernacular concord system from that of other non-standard varieties .
28 It is this adjustment which causes difficulties for our body rhythms .
29 It is this sense which seems to be given the clearest possible confirmation in those moments of the portrait of the artist , where the brooding Stephen , Stephen Daedalus , suddenly emerges from his vigilance in a lightening display of strength .
30 It is this faculty which sees the subtle physical aspects of the aura , for instance , while in full outward manifestation this faculty is expressed as our physical eyes , which are sensitive to the small section of the electromagnetic spectrum that we call light .
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