Example sentences of "[is] this [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is unlikely that Gloucester could have flouted the council 's wishes without at least tacit royal approval , and it is this which distinguished the duke from his predecessor as chief steward . |
| 2 | It is unlikely that Gloucester could have flouted the council 's wishes without at least tacit royal approval , and it is this which distinguished the duke from his predecessor as chief steward . |
| 3 | Since the kite has a lift component to enable it to accelerate at certain positions around the hemisphere it also has what is known as an ‘ apparent wind ’ and it is this which sustains the motion within the flight envelope . |
| 4 | It is this which caused the Employment Secretary , Michael Howard , to claim that under Labour the unions would become more privileged than when Michael Foot was Labour 's Employment Secretary from 1974 to 1976 . |
| 5 | This continually recurring disharmony Marx attributes to the nature of class relations , and it is this which produces the forward movement of history . |
| 6 | It is this which produces the combined bracing of the right foot , leg and hip which produces the wound-up spring resistance at the top . |
| 7 | It is this which establishes the control of the people over their political leaders or of the shareholders over their directors . |
| 8 | When depreciation is deducted from gross investment , we have what is called net investment and it is this which measures the true addition to the country 's capital stock during the year . |
| 9 | It is this which offers the greatest challenge to a photographer . |
| 10 | It is this which offers the greatest challenge to a photographer . |
| 11 | It is this which makes the performance capable of repetition . |
| 12 | The conflict arises in two major ways : firstly , the most basic need of all , to understand the functioning of the child , is confounded by a need to hide this functioning , since it is this which makes the child most different from the community . |
| 13 | So individualism must regard them as being in some way free from the determining influence of society , and it is this which makes the properties of individuals into a suitable stopping point for explanations . |
| 14 | It is this which makes the next section of Simmel 's work so difficult to accept , in that it appears to work so deeply against the grain of modern consciousness . |
| 15 | It is this which suggests the secondary level . |
| 16 | It is this which suggests the presence of Verulamium of at least one craftsman not engaged at Middleborough , for there are some significant additions to the features of the latter . |
| 17 | It is this which marks the discourse of the Report as distinct from strategies for " rational " public policy and social administration . |
| 18 | And it is this which explains the London Tories ' prolonged , teeth-gritting reluctance to recognise their Ulster colleagues . |
| 19 | Exactly how zoos are expected to dispose of their lar gibbons is not clear , and it is this which concerns the International Primate Protection League ( IPPL ) . |