Example sentences of "it is [noun] itself " in BNC.

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1 ( n contrast both to the genetically based view of literary history which tends to ignore questions of form , and to other formally-biased approaches which tend to ignore history , the Russian Formalist view is that it is history itself which allows the specificity of literature to be established .
2 It is life itself we must battle to preserve , ’ said Mrs Thatcher in her speech to the United Nations in New York .
3 It is humanity itself which must establish that which it wants to be right , and that which it wants to be wrong .
4 This may sound complicated , but rest assured , that it is simplicity itself .
5 Moreover , once the precise mathematical form of f(U) has been unearthed by econometric testing , it is simplicity itself to arrive at an estimate of U * ; — one has merely to evaluate the root of .
6 It is transcendence itself .
7 It is sociology itself ( Durkheim 1895 ) .
8 If there has been an oppressor that has held the human spirit in chains , then it is fear itself .
9 When they cross a region of space–time it is space–time itself that vibrates .
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