Example sentences of "it is these [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the analysis focuses on social class , other variables relating to the housewife 's own education and previous ( or present ) employment are also examined : in some cases it is these factors rather than social class itself which turns out to be important . |
| 2 | It is these factors which are helping to secure contracts in what is a highly competitive market . |
| 3 | Since mountainous areas enhance and induce precipitation , it is these locations which cleanse the atmosphere of its long-range transported pollutants and thus experience significant acid precipitation . |
| 4 | It is these concerns which have encouraged a move back towards biological or organic methods of pest control . |
| 5 | It is these muscles which make it possible to stand up straight and bend over to lift objects . |
| 6 | It is these experiences which have prompted me to set down in this book some of the lessons I have learnt over the years . |
| 7 | It is these holes within the lattice that are the focus of interest , for they are large enough to accommodate small molecules . |
| 8 | It is tempting to equate shares with rights under a contract , for as we have seen the memorandum and articles of association constitute a contract of some sort between the company and its members and it is these documents which directly or indirectly define the rights conferred by the shares . |
| 9 | It is these eddies that relate particularly to the brief discussion above of the correlation measurements in Fig. 21.9 . |
| 10 | It is these views in particular that involve the ambiguity mentioned earlier . |
| 11 | Certain duets thus feel like tortuous workshop explorations , with manoeuvres hard to do and awkward to watch , and it is these moments where Page seems to come adrift from the music . |
| 12 | Some birds manage to nest a second time within the season , and it is these birds , again with recent experience , which breed at the end of the season . |
| 13 | Women 's efforts to create and maintain a home are found in all cultures , and it is these efforts that the Lady of the Hearth represents . |
| 14 | It is these attitudes which reflect the fundamental problem with the UK economy , and I think your questioner should have received short shrift to say the least . |
| 15 | It is these functions that the counsellor has to overcome . |
| 16 | Thatcher 's children , one and all , it is these generations who feel the need to belong to new collectivities , connected to the energy of PEOPLE-POWER , the key phrase for the 90s . |
| 17 | Formally , ordinal scales are asymmetrical in that if A is greater than B , B can not be greater than A. Transitivity still holds in that if A is greater than B , and B is greater than C , then A is greater than C. It is these properties which enable us to order cases along a continuum . |
| 18 | It is these properties that have accounted for the explosive growth of the material in the past few years — at about 15 per cent per year in Continental Western Europe , according to Phil Bruce , ‘ Melinar ’ commercial manager in C&P Ltd . |
| 19 | It is these lamps — the Philips SL and PL , the Thorn 2D and the Toshiba Neo Ball among them — that have stimulated design of lighting fittings . |
| 20 | In the following summary of current approaches to the analysis of culture , for example , Raymond Williams suggests that it is these interactions which produce the way of life defining a social collectivity : |
| 21 | It is these deposits which ( due to millenia of weathering and other natural forces ) are close to the surface in Cornwall , the Highlands of Scotland and other areas of Britain which traditionally have been mined . |
| 22 | It is these antibodies which will be detected in standard antibody tests . |
| 23 | Rather it is necessary to look at the people involved — the professionals — and understand how they relate both to their clients and to the organisations in which they work , for it is these structures that powerfully condition the primary relationships . |
| 24 | It is these structures which must then be compared , not their elements . |
| 25 | It is these cases , where no pathogen can be isolated yet there are pus cells to be found in the urethra , that major problems of diagnosis arise . |
| 26 | It is these cases of nociceptive pain not receptive to opioids which have become known as ‘ paradoxical pain ’ or ‘ overwhelming pain syndrome . ’ |
| 27 | It is these changes to the carriage controls that knitters sometimes find hard to master , so let's look in detail at what the carriage controls do . |
| 28 | It is these changes that form the background to the discussion by Vickers ( Chapter 13 ) . |
| 29 | It is these duties that are approximately laid down in their conditions of service : to work for so many hours , to teach those classes , to attend these meetings , to undertake these extras . |
| 30 | In fact it is these abuses that have provided the ammunition to bring the entire concept of headship into disrepute . |