Example sentences of "it is [adj] [noun sg] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is that feeling of having been chosen , being special , that makes the falling-in-love period such a pleasurable one . |
| 2 | It is all part of gathering more power , whatever may be said by the Government about his intentions int into the hands of Whitehall and into the hands of ministers who at the moment will be Conservative , but very shortly I think are likely to be Labour . |
| 3 | But if time is not too desperately important it is one way of seeing a vast stretch of surprising and magnificent country , some interesting and unspoiled old towns , perhaps even of discovering some village in the heart of the still primitive agricultural Auvergne , some little-known hotel where one would like to stay instead of hurrying on , to which one would return another year . |
| 4 | ‘ It is one way of seeing the world as an aesthetic phenomenon . |
| 5 | An explanation of political popularity and elections seems important for medium-term forecasting , since it is one way of endogenising economic policy . |
| 6 | From the top you can continue along the seaward side ( care needed on the rocks ) , instead of rejoining the main route ; it is rough going until rejoining the concrete steps , near foundations of old radar station in the last war , which later becomes a track , which you descend to 5 . |
| 7 | It is this concern for enhancing or widening the opportunities of children living in inner city areas which underpins Ronald Edmonds ' chapter ( 2.1 ) . |
| 8 | It is this underwriting of moving on which Sukenick 's next novel brings into question . |
| 9 | It is this style of thinking which plays a large part in producing symptoms of stress . |
| 10 | It is this emphasis on controlling the money supply that has led to the title ‘ monetarist ’ . |
| 11 | It is this sense of losing control of one 's life , of handing power over it to lawyers , that so terrifies potential litigants and alienates the rest of society from its advocates . |
| 12 | It is this type of thinking that lies behind the US Justice Department 's Vertical Restraints Guidelines mentioned above , though White ( in this issue ) remarks that these 1985 Guidelines have not been particularly successful in clarifying the issues , and vertical restraints remain an unsatisfactory area of US antitrust policy . |
| 13 | It is this potential for mobilizing worker commitment to change which makes the 1985 agreement a land-mark in Ford 's industrial relations and work organization . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , in the contemporary English village it is this feeling of having been ‘ taken over ’ by outsiders that usually prevails among the agricultural population and with it not only a sense of ‘ loss of community ’ , but an inevitable animus against the invasion of ‘ furriners ’ . |
| 15 | We have already seen how naturally the need to fit a certain number of half wavelengths into an interval leads to discreteness and it is some way of introducing a radical discreteness into mechanics which we are looking for . |
| 16 | It is open season for criticising UDCs for lack of planning , lack of strategic thinking and short termism . |
| 17 | In windy conditions it is excellent practice in controlling the model even for the very experienced flyer . |
| 18 | In this case , it is another way of saying that we wish to be governed neither by elected representatives nor by our own countrymen . |