Example sentences of "it is a [noun] of [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it is a knowledge of what happens behind the program that makes all the difference in whether a page looks good or not . |
| 2 | It is a measure of what , this time , was at stake . |
| 3 | It is a measure of her individuality that Greenberg , long one of her husband 's critics , is such a big fan of hers . |
| 4 | In fact , it is a measure of his poverty both that he is unaware of it and that he can define himself only in negative terms . |
| 5 | It is a measure of his success in launching this new functional approach that we now take it so much for granted that we forget , and even find difficulty in appreciating , the novelty which it represented at the time . |
| 6 | The Department owes a great deal to Noel Thomas and it is a measure of his success as Chairman that when at the end of the 1989 academic year he handed over the hot seat to Angus Easson , the latter 's first task was one of consolidation . |
| 7 | He also received an honorary degree at Harvard University — it is a measure of his popularity , perhaps , that when he was at a reception there with E. M. Forster the students and teachers ignored the novelist and crowded around the poet . |
| 8 | It is a measure of our changing standards that 3.5 metre boats such as the Dancer , Mountain Bat and Invader are regarded as large boats today . |
| 9 | ‘ It is a culture of our times — and I do n't feel happy ignoring it . ’ |
| 10 | Thus it is wretched to know that one is wretched , but it is a sign of our true greatness to know that we are wretched . |
| 11 | It is a sign of our growth as a movement that one magazine is no longer enough . |
| 12 | Remember , it is a friend of yours . |
| 13 | The answer to the second question must surely be that if there is a trust at all ( which is the first question ) , then because of the word omnia it is a trust of everything Pamphilus receives . |
| 14 | The human subject is conceived in terms of an essential , intrinsic lack ; it is a fragment of something larger and more primordial , whose existence is dominated by the desire to recover its missing complement ( The Subject of Semiotics , 152 ) . |
| 15 | Mr McGahon said : ‘ There is a high level of crime in this area , but it is a microcosm of what is happening all over the Republic . |
| 16 | This acknowledgement is not derived from a prior knowledge of facts , rather it is a precondition of there being any facts . |
| 17 | It is a question of which side of the river you take — the Maidenhead or the Buckinghamshire side . |
| 18 | It is a question of your firm 's policy . |
| 19 | Ultimately , it is a question of who , commercially , is to take the risk that a consent may be refused . |
| 20 | In Zeus 's other great sanctuary , at Dodona in the north , he seems likewise to have been without a temple until the fifth century ; perhaps it is a function of his ancient role as sky-god . |
| 21 | If flowers are preferred , it is a case of what to leave out , rather than hunting far and wide for attractive herb species . |
| 22 | and it is a case of it 's , it 's problems from the radiation treatment |
| 23 | It is a mark of his abrupt nature . |
| 24 | And in March 1958 he travelled with his wife to Rome where he was to receive an honorary degree : it is a mark of his extraordinary fame that students lined the route to the university and shouted " Viva Eliot ! " as they drove by . |
| 25 | It is a work of his full maturity , enormously demanding technically and closely argued , combining orthodox sonata form , a sophisticated late-romantic idiom and elements derived from Romanian folk-music . |
| 26 | They are born with the ability : instinctively and automatically it is a part of their subtle mind structure . |
| 27 | It is not a mere means to X + Y , since it is a part of it , but still the 90 degrees of value are not its value . |
| 28 | It is a part of our history , that , and a part which we revere greatly . |
| 29 | It is a part of his search for perfection , according to Mr Ferguson , who is delighted at the way Schmeichel has adapted to life in England . |
| 30 | ‘ It is a part of his malady . |