Example sentences of "of [pron] it [be] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Between a focus on Britain and a broad appreciation of the world of which it is but a part ? |
| 2 | And just as linguistics ought to be able to account for the structure and organization of as yet unspoken sentences , so poetics ought to be able to account for the rules governing as yet unwritten works of literature : ‘ Each work is therefore regarded only as the manifestation of an abstract and general structure , of which it is but one of the possible realizations . |
| 3 | Then suddenly , while aware she had told him that she did not love Travis , she realised that here was her chance of clouding the issue of who it was that she did love . |
| 4 | Again , if you go back before about eighteen hundred , if you look at er if you look at art , you find that painters paint things entitled The Rape of Europa , The Rape of , The Rape of whoever it is and if you look at these pictures it 's just people lounging around with not very many clothes on . |
| 5 | By the looks of it it is that as I say a screw 's keeping that thing on . |
| 6 | With that sensuous , slow gaze of his it was as though he had kissed her . |
| 7 | A case-study involves the in-depth study of a single example of whatever it is that the sociologist wishes to investigate . |
| 8 | Well I mean , if we 're talking about sort of and they 're looking for a sense of identity of whatever it is that they 're having of |
| 9 | But in her mother 's kiss she had learned something of the importance of whatever it was that Rachel had to do . |
| 10 | She was sitting on the bed with her album — that sparsely-peopled record of whatever it was that she 'd left behind and she was n't leafing through it but hugging it close , as if it was a physical source of comfort to her when times were at their lowest . |
| 11 | Perhaps it meant that Cindy Hill had revealed at least some of whatever it was that bothered her , which was a good thing , really . |
| 12 | She did not believe that she could bring Scathach back to life , but he could at least be with her in the fortress as she made her journey into the first forest , as she went in search of whatever it was that had ensnared Harry , made him a prisoner in Old Forbidden Place . |
| 13 | The first thing to notice about functionalism is that it does not fare any better than behaviourism in providing an account of what it is that V knows and BS does not , for BS could know all about V 's functional or covertly behavioural states ; so there is no lack of knowledge that his deficit could consist in . |
| 14 | He observes people and places with a wry and uncanny sense of what it is that matters about them . |
| 15 | But such emotions are themselves informed by the way in which we see the world , by our conceptions of what it is that we find desirable or fearful . |
| 16 | In all such cases the prevalence of such actions and the possibilities for their control are better accounted for by addressing the question of what it is that usually inhibits the actions , rather than by accounting for how the motivations arise . |
| 17 | We do not mean merely freedom to do as we like irrespectively of what it is that we like . |
| 18 | Aristotle 's argument concerns the question of what it is that makes an action ‘ voluntary ’ , done of a person 's own free will , and in order to answer this question , he distinguished between actions whose origin was ‘ inside ’ a person , and those whose origin was ‘ outside ’ , which resulted from external influences or pressure or compulsion . |
| 19 | The approach to understanding organisations that concentrates its focus on people within organisations needs to be aware of what it is that motivates people within those organisations . |
| 20 | The Scottish summary of what it is that parents value in teachers and what makes a poor ( as well as a good ) teacher ( SED 1989:7 — 11 ) is in some ways an up-to-date version of parts of Enquiry 1 ( Schools Council 1968 ) . |
| 21 | When you see a problem take a note of what it is and where it is . |
| 22 | T. Behrens is considerably baffled by this strange case , by the question of what it was that determined Ursula 's adherence to this programme , and of what it was that caused her to bring to an end her loving friendship with Justin . |
| 23 | For some of us it is because we have suffered from the emotional manipulations of others . |