Example sentences of "it is the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is the churches that provide our volunteers ; without their support we would not be able to provide a service at all . |
| 2 | The best preliminary plan may be for the reader to open the book upright at ( the illustration ) and then go to the other side of the room , to be imposed on from a distance : it is the nearest the book can offer to the proper first encounter with the figure . |
| 3 | It celebrates creativity amid doubt and despondency — creativity as energy but also as a duty , work to be done by man as it is the sun 's task to shine . |
| 4 | It is a usual feature of such a comparison that there is a basic level of information which is common to most of the reviews , and it is the mark of a skilful critic to have worked in some personal assessment of works , or some individual response to the show as a whole . |
| 5 | It is the work of a writer for whom , in successive fictions , the theme of sexual dealings between people of different races has necessitated the representation of violence . |
| 6 | It is the sort of place which will always revive and rebuild , and in such a place Salim 's part is to make good , carry on . |
| 7 | The attitude to time might tell us what he thinks , but it is the most inscrutable aspect of the novel . |
| 8 | In the literature of duality it is the outcast or victim who has dealings with a double , and in the second of the two novels Charles Wychwood is an outcast whose condition copies that of Thomas Chatterton , who committed suicide in 1770 at the age of 17 , having invented a medieval monk , Rowley , and written poems for him . |
| 9 | But perhaps it is the paradox conveyed by that closing glimpse of a parodic but unprecedented Eliot which carries the sharpest conviction of any feature of the book . |
| 10 | Lyricism is inexperience , and it is the desire for glory . |
| 11 | The lyricism that sells out to a state-ordained reality and solidarity is not the only lyricism we know , and it is the opposite of much of what we know by that name . |
| 12 | Well it 's meant to be the fucking opposite and it is the fucking opposite . |
| 13 | Whether or not it can be seen as Kelman 's self-portrait , it is the portrait of an artist . |
| 14 | The selection is right if it truly works for the competing student , and it is the quality and force of the imagination that will carry off the performance of the piece . |
| 15 | Everything in this chapter may seem terribly grey and pessimistic , but the truth is that acting is probably the most optimistic of all professions — it is the nature of actors to hope . |
| 16 | For drama school it is the first taste of things to come and on the whole a good thing . |
| 17 | It is the most important medium for getting known by the general public and affecting the attitude of employers but the theatre is still the best place for learning your trade . |
| 18 | But it is the theory of democracy as the right of the majority to rule which is seen as central , rather than democracy as the preservation of minority rights . |
| 19 | The meaning of democracy shifts even further once it is interpreted within the terms of the Calvinist principle of the Godly society , where it is the lot of the just to assume power and to guide the citizens in the paths of righteousness . |
| 20 | It is the specific effect this religious form has in Ireland which is under scrutiny . |
| 21 | It is the state which properly exercises the use of force in order to maintain social control , whereas it is in civil society — the family , school , work-place , church , and other non-state institutions — that hegemony operates . |
| 22 | However , it is the further legitimation given to a particular socio-ethical form of political religion in the constitution and to the implied authority of religious intellectuals in deciding in concreto what must be taken by the state as in the interests of the common good which gives to conflict in Ireland between the two alliances its political religious dimension in the sphere of law . |
| 23 | It is the same in Northern Ireland as any other part of the world ’ ( Bp . |
| 24 | Which is not to say , he wrote , that the present project has any value over and above the others , mine and those of everyone else , I have been into the question of value already and will not return to it now , has any value or that its outcome has any value , I have to repeat this , simply that now , for me , today , after the things I have done and given the time left me , it is the most important thing , it is what , from the time I first picked up a pencil and made a mark on a piece of paper , everything has logically led up to . |
| 25 | It is the right hand side on both panels that is worrying me , he wrote . |
| 26 | It is the moment , he wrote , when a man suddenly realizes that there is no tomorrow , no second chance , only today , this chance , now . |
| 27 | None of that would of course be comprehensible to Moss and McGrindle , he wrote , to Pizzetti and Baiocchi , to Goldman and Goldstein , though Goldberg , to his credit , has had an inkling , has to some extent faced the thought that he might be wasting his whole life , for that 's what it comes down to in the end , he wrote , wasting a whole life when something useful might have been salvaged , something valuable perhaps , it is the refusal of those alternatives that occasionally makes one shiver . |
| 28 | Why it is the colour of the moon and made in the light of the moon . |
| 29 | On the one hand it is nothing and asks for nothing , on the other it is the secret and silent source of the destruction of everything . |
| 30 | On the one hand it makes no demands , he wrote , on the other it is the vitriol which corrodes everything with which it comes into contact , the Gorgon which turns to stone all who gaze upon it . |