Example sentences of "[coord] it is [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Now legislation arises either from major political commitments made by the Cabinet ( or earlier by the Shadow Cabinet while the party was in opposition ) , or it is of a more routine nature and comes from within the departments when they find their existing powers insufficient or inappropriate for the conduct of administration along accepted lines .
2 Positivist theories under this latter heading have taken two quite different forms : the acquisition is through the occurrence of some physical damage ( or illness ) ; or it is through learning .
3 ‘ Scripture ’ he said ‘ puts the great Commission from Jesus right at the heart of the Christian faith , or it is for every disciple ’ .
4 Either the contract is between the person acquiring a copy of the system ( the " acquirer " ) and the dealer or it is between the acquirer and the software company in which case the dealer acts as the company 's agent .
5 Or it is like the light pictures that enter the eyes lenses and escape into the vastness of the tundra and like ice crystals on the windows , they freeze and become the light flowers that bloom on the endless snow fields .
6 Nor it is worth pursuing that the sandwiches at 10 Downing Street were probably very much better than those in The Centenary at Norton .
7 and it is off the eastern coast of Australia .
8 The White paper goes into some detail as to how these objectives are to be achieved and it is beyond the scope of this volume to go over them in detail .
9 He will also learn to clarify his ends ; originally he saw no further than immediate goals , the satisfaction of hunger and relief from nausea ; later he conceptualizes the nourishing of the body by food and the danger to health of over-eating , and it is towards or away from these that he finds himself spontaneously pulled .
10 Happily , such problems are not insoluble and it is towards a stage where we are able to make sense out of sometimes enigmatic statements by fans that a discovery procedure is directed .
11 Epidemiological risk factors are somehow linked with destabilising influences on breathing , and it is through their avoidance or modulation — for instance through a change in the sensory environment of sleep — that risk of death can be reduced .
12 And it is through my understanding of drawing , control of the pencil , and study of design , that I can at least set out my figures well .
13 What is required , therefore , is a combination of the two approaches , and it is through support teaching that this combination can be most effectively achieved .
14 Act Three reveals the deity actually resident within believers , and it is through the Spirit that this takes place .
15 Genes directly dictate the manufacture of molecules called proteins , and it is through their proteins that genes exert their effects on the phenotype of the body .
16 And , even more importantly , the Formalists differ radically from the Anglo-Americans on the way in which they relate poetic ambiguity to ordinary language , and it is through this differential function , and not by means of mere conformity and intensification that poetry heightens and enriches ordinary communication .
17 The ‘ bits of wood ’ of the title are a colloquial term for human beings and it is through their eyes , and their culture , that the story unfolds .
18 He recognised that human society is characterised by extraordinarily complex and rich forms of communication , and it is through such communication that the individual 's self is constructed and the larger group is constructed .
19 The Sufi tradition in particular stresses that only through the use of symbols can any understanding be reached : It is through symbols that one is awakened ; it is through symbols that one is transformed ; and it is through symbols that one expresses .
20 Now , as we 've said earlier on the Holy Spirit works in the new birth and it is through the work of the Holy Spirit that we come to know God .
21 But 20 years after Man About The House , Paula Wilcox is appearing in theatre in Liverpool and it is through a deliberate choice .
22 We always have a boiled ham on the bone in our delicatessen counter and it is without doubt the single main item responsible for drawing people into the shop who might otherwise be content to look through the window .
23 Love has many aspects and many forms , and it is without doubt the most important element in the life of the spirit .
24 This is the best procedure , and it is without risk to your engine for descents of up to 3,000 feet .
25 Either way , a cheerful and faintly self-questioning sufficiency stands as the hallmark of the modern British literary mind , and it is without obvious sources at home or abroad .
26 The physical act of training breaks down part of the muscle exercised , and it is during the next 24–72 hours that the muscles recover and begin to grow .
27 Yes , the stage is larger than life and it is about emotions that are big enough to wrap round you .
28 It ended in May 1915 , during one of the most politically testing weeks in Asquith 's premiership , with the lady 's retreat into a curious marriage to Edwin Montagu , a lesser member of the government and a very close friend — indeed acolyte — of the prime minister , and it is about Montagu that this book has most of new interest to say .
29 There is the whole of the Brixen and Sperten valleys to explore , and it is about a ninety minutes walk to Kitzbuhel .
30 Secondary school is , after all , nearer to life after school , and it is about this that schools are increasingly urged to think .
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