Example sentences of "it is [adv] [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it is not to this distinction that the theory of the separation of powers points . |
| 2 | It is not for this , however , that she is remembered , but for her writing on domestic matters and especially for Beeton 's Book of Household Management ( 1859–61 ) which in its various editions made ‘ Mrs Beeton ’ a household name in a double sense . |
| 3 | However it is not until this twentieth century that variable space has become a conceptual reality ( see Chapters 5 and 14 ) . |
| 4 | There is also an old goods wagon at this spot , but it is not from this line . |
| 5 | It is particularly in this age group that coeliac disease may easily be overlooked , for anaemia may be dismissed as occurring secondary to dietary insufficiency without further investigation . |
| 6 | It is largely for this latter , purely emotional reason that very few scientists will take the idea seriously . |
| 7 | The Clouds are of immense importance to astronomers , and it is partly for this reason that many of the great new telescopes are being set up south of the equator , where the Clouds are accessible . |
| 8 | It is probably for this reason that male zebra finches copulate frequently with their partners , even though a single mating is quite sufficient to fertilise all the eggs . |
| 9 | It is probably for this reason that Exeter services have not attracted the baleful glare of publicity . |
| 10 | It is probably in this area that the House of Commons has had most effect in persuading governments to modify their original proposals . |
| 11 | It is n't like this in England . ’ |
| 12 | You can sit where you like as long as it is n't in this chair , this armchair , my armchair , the one with the dancing balls splattered loudly across its back and arms , across its stained and silver gut . |
| 13 | It is also through this file that programs can be evoked to provide manual and automatic checks on the specified functional associations ( see pages 67–70 ) . |
| 14 | It is also within this group that a fan has the most obvious opportunities for becoming somebody special . |
| 15 | It is also in this period ( roughly from the age of three to six years ) when sexual identity is established — usually with the same-sex parent providing the role model . |
| 16 | Incidentally it is just at this point that I find many theologians who enter this field particularly weak ; mainly because what they deduce from a Biblical view is so general ( and sometimes even vague ) that it is of little practical help in choosing between the main alternatives of the world today . |
| 17 | It is just outside this area but it is the home of the Duke of Bedford , whose ancestors put their wealth , or capital , into a vast scheme to drain the marshland of the Fens . |
| 18 | ‘ It is up to this meeting to decide what happens to those stocks , but we see no reason for Hong Kong to be penalised . ’ |
| 19 | The hon. Gentleman should remember that manufacturing output fell under the last Labour Government and that it is up under this Government . |
| 20 | When farmers and farm workers refer to the ‘ loss of community ’ in their village it is usually to this kind of change that they are implicitly referring , for there are bound to be changing patterns of sociability developing in the village to which they are unaccustomed or from which they feel excluded . |
| 21 | When the agricultural population complains of a loss of community in the English village it is usually to this loss of an enclosed , socially self-sufficient occupational community that they refer . |
| 22 | It is often on this basis that some say theft , fraud , or dishonesty are morally wrong ; that they are moral wrongs in themselves , moral imperatives given from above . |
| 23 | It is precisely on this point that I feel proud and happy and am convinced that my book will survive . " |
| 24 | Not exactly , if only because it is precisely at this point that Volpone shows how the normal is parasitic upon the perverse . |
| 25 | Yet it is precisely at this point that students — afraid of boring us with repetition — ; search for new material , abandoning their first ideas perhaps for the rest of the piece . |
| 26 | It is precisely for this anonymity that they were selected . |
| 27 | Sadly , it has been all too often the case that it is precisely in this area that individuals and agencies have found it most difficult to co-operate . |
| 28 | Indeed , it is precisely from this ‘ being aware of having experience ’ and being able both to communicate its features to another and to distinguish between oneself as experiencing agent and another 's reported experiences that the prime features of humanity arise . |
| 29 | It is only on this body of knowledge that you are able to build your further development . |
| 30 | It is only at this point that we come to the central theme , the reason why all those who wish to understand the problem of drugs in sport should read this book . |