Example sentences of "it is a [noun] [prep] [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 country in which drug traffickers , be they Colombians or of another nationality , are finding it very difficult to operate today . |
| 3 | It is a must for everyone with strategic , economic and political interests in the Arab Gulf . |
| 4 | It is a measure of what , this time , was at stake . |
| 5 | It is a measure of her individuality that Greenberg , long one of her husband 's critics , is such a big fan of hers . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ It is a nightmare for us , ’ said headmaster Keef Visser , who taught one of the missing boys . |
| 12 | ‘ It is a culture of our times — and I do n't feel happy ignoring it . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ But it is a relief for me and my family to grieve for our loss . ’ |
| 14 | It is a relief to me to take up this pen and sit at a table and endeavour to sort out what I feel pressing in upon me and to know that if sense can be made of it you will make it . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It is a sign of our growth as a movement that one magazine is no longer enough . |
| 17 | It should , I think , be emphasised that the present decision of your Lordships does not represent a breakthrough in relation to the principle against self-incrimination ; it is a decision on its own facts in the light of that principle . |
| 18 | Remember , it is a friend of yours . |
| 19 | It is a drain on their resources . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Both these lights are operative in the writings of the mystics as means by which man sees his own true nature and in doing so also a reflection of God ; it is a state in which they feel themselves to be most fully alive . |
| 22 | ‘ Poverty protects against … ( subjective deprivation ) because it is a restraint in itself . |
| 23 | 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 ) . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | This acknowledgement is not derived from a prior knowledge of facts , rather it is a precondition of there being any facts . |
| 26 | One of his last poems , " The Cultivation of Christmas Trees " , was published in the autumn as part of the Faber " Ariel " series : it is a poem in which the memories of childhood Christmases are kept alive through the experience of age and weariness , both the beginning and end of life coming together in the fear and love of God . |
| 27 | It is a film in which little seems to happen yet everything changes . |
| 28 | It is a way in which diversity and the desire to better oneself can be accommodated . |
| 29 | It is a way in which the dominant class of landowners manipulates a subordinate one . |
| 30 | Extent of labour force participation is an important indicator of the position of women because on the one hand , it is a way in which women contribute to the economic development of their countries and , on the other , because work is a major source of income which gives access to education , culture , power and other factors influencing social status . |