Example sentences of "it is [prep] [pron] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Lewisian thing about the first of his space stories is precisely its blend of literary originality and religious truth ; it is not ‘ theology ’ dressed up as ‘ literature ’ ; rather it makes its best literary effects when it is at its most religious because the religious matter is what most engages the author 's imagination . |
| 2 | Although ‘ laicisation ’ is a process that has become universal in the Western world , it is in North America where it is at its most advanced . |
| 3 | Because of the priority given to these ‘ fixed costs ’ , mothers typically draw on the household income when it is at its most depleted . |
| 4 | It is at its most active in urban areas such as my constituency , the metropolitan city of Leeds , and other big cities such as Newcastle , Bradford and Manchester , whose Members of Parliament have contributed to the debate . |
| 5 | This naturally prompts the question what it is for one purely particular object to stand for another . |
| 6 | It is difficult to form any clear conception of what these activities would be like if undertaken in isolation but so far as one can form such a conception it is of something essentially futile . |
| 7 | It is about something infinitely subtle : moral and social development . |
| 8 | It is explained as much by Aden Arabie 's colonial , third-world dimension , as it is by its lyrically explosive and liberatingly destructive style which undoubtedly held more appeal for Sartre in 1960 than the more prosaic , communist militant style of Les Chiens de garde , with its undertones of Stalinist party dogma . |
| 9 | As a medium it is supreme among the arts in its ability to portray the real world , hut it is in itself quite artificial , and it speaks to us by way of a pictorial language which first took shape during the early days of the silent cinema . |
| 10 | Indeed , if he has a fault as a critic it is in his boyishly enthusiastic generosity towards authors — Thomas Usk , Lydgate — who are not really as interesting as he makes them sound . |