Example sentences of "[Wh det] it is [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hence the individual voter 's starting-point in trying to influence policy through the electoral process is a situation of very limited choice in which it is general policy biases , or even more general considerations , often described as ‘ party images ’ , that must govern his or her selection of an MP . |
| 2 | While in modern society , power is conceived on the lines of a structuralism , in which it is impersonal structures that exercise power over individuals . |
| 3 | Isaiah Berlin has pointed to the uncertainty in Marx 's attitude to this ‘ the most central of all the concepts of his system ’ and to his failure to reconcile the two views he expresses : the one , that in unalienated labour there is perfect freedom for the fullest realisation of human potential and happiness ; the other , that ‘ the need for this minimum of toil is an inescapable fact of physical nature which it is mere Utopianism to hope to conjure away ’ . |
| 4 | Police are investigating an incident in which it is alleged leisure assistant Alan Deaton , 19 was assaulted during a roller disco at York 's Barbican Centre . |
| 5 | But America , however sleek the surface , is a massively antiquated contraption in which the wheels grind slowly , and in which it is old pols , not callow meritocrats , who understand the working of the gears . |
| 6 | My hon. Friend the Member for Reading , West and my right hon. Friend the Member for Southend , West gave good examples of the way in which it is improving services . |
| 7 | In this and in future legislation , it seems that the public interest almost becomes whatever it is that competition promotes . |
| 8 | Come on , Doctor : have n't you short-circuited the mad scientist 's gizmo yet , or bamboozled the megalomaniac survivor of an ancient race of warrior wizards , or whatever it is this time ? |
| 9 | If we examine what it is one participant is ready to see that other participants might read into a situation and what it is that will cause him to provide ritual remedies , followed by relief for these efforts , we find ourselves looking at the central moral traditions of Western culture . |
| 10 | ‘ I think you do not appreciate what it is that space contains . ’ |
| 11 | Let's , we 've got to look at what it is that management are making a mess of . |
| 12 | Only here what must be put squarely , if not exactly clearly , before the reader is what it is that will after all betray the murderer . |
| 13 | I know what it is this time , though , love . ’ |
| 14 | As I say , you owe me something , and if you 're determined to go on pretending you do n't know that , I 'll be delighted to tell you what it is some time soon , but not right now . |
| 15 | ‘ I have never managed to work out what it is unemployed women do during the day — ’ he gave a neutral laugh ‘ — except between five and seven , of course . ’ |