Example sentences of "of [pron] it is [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever the truth of who it is on the tape , this chap could easily have monitored the whole conversation over 23 minutes . ’ |
| 2 | The quality of our vision on a dark night must be far poorer than 5 per cent of what it is at midday . |
| 3 | We know some things about what God does , for once we recognise that there is this mystery we recognise that all that is is God 's doing — though we have no understanding of what it is for God to ‘ do ’ . |
| 4 | That it does so , so profoundly , is a vital part of what it is for . |
| 5 | Consider Hart 's account of what it is for a social rule to exist and his distinction between the internal and the external points of view . |
| 6 | The concept of women 's standpoint also provides an interpretation of what it is for a theory to be comprehensive . |
| 7 | All the work in this approach must go into a persuasive account of what it is for reasons to be conclusive . |
| 8 | The theory gives an account of what it is for a belief to be luckily true , as follows : the extent to which a 's belief is luckily true is the extent to which even if it had been false , a would still have believed it , or if it were in changed circumstances still true , he would still believe it . |
| 9 | Discussion of justification , of what it is for a belief to be justified , begins with this theory ; other theories will be described in terms of their relation to or divergence from this one . |
| 10 | And from this account of empirical meaning there naturally arises an account of what it is for someone to understand a statement , or to know its meaning : |
| 11 | In fact , this means that our answer will amount to an account of what it is for a non-observation statement to be significant , and what it is that makes one such statement mean something different from what another one means . |
| 12 | It is suggested that this captures the core of what it is for conduct to be insulting . |
| 13 | Ivan Klima could be called a lyric author , and the notion of what it is to be such an author is examined in My First Loves , whose gentle and deliberate stories read as if they have been grown and stored before being made public . |
| 14 | Larkin 's poem complains in concert ; it takes up the question of what it is to be sexually debarred . |
| 15 | Levi 's double life as chemist and writer suggests that if art and work need to be separated , according to a certain sense of what it is to be a Jew , art and work are nevertheless very often the same . |
| 16 | In this search for a new spiritual awareness , they — like us — were finding new possibilities to achieve a revived sense of what it is to be truly human in the transformational experience . |
| 17 | It was during this time , moving from one company to another , that Haslam learned the true meaning of what it is to be an adaptable manager . |
| 18 | Justification by faith , similarly , is important only because it goes to the heart of what it is to be a follower of Christ . |
| 19 | Being ‘ sinful ’ and ‘ just ’ is not the equivalent of having your cake and eating it , but an existential awareness of what it is to be a human being in a sinful and fallen world . |
| 20 | And then the dark-greens are by no means united in forming a simple statement of what it is to be an out-and-out green . |
| 21 | This is not the basis of the Catholic position which is instead concerned with the nature of what it is to be a priest . |
| 22 | Not more of the same — a narrowing down of what it is to be British , and a belief that to promote good race relations you have to keep black people out . |
| 23 | CHELSEA Clinton has had her first taste of what it is to be a president 's daughter . |
| 24 | Nor is sharing or giving help a route to dominance ; it is merely what is expected , part of the minimal definition of what it is to be a member of a Semai community ( see Robarchek 1986a ; see Dentan 1968 : 134 for a discussion of implications of the distinction between reciprocity and sharing ) . |
| 25 | Throughout his work he circled endlessly around the question of what it is to be a Christian , to have faith , to encounter God . |
| 26 | What needs to be emphasised , though , is that direct experience — becoming part of a way of life that includes the alien in a wider definition of what it is to be human — seems to be almost the only way of achieving demystification . |
| 27 | This widening definition of what it is to be human , couched in sociologically aware terms , runs throughout the responses , and is further expressed in attitudes to amniocentesis and abortion in subsequent pregnancies . |
| 28 | No longer a matter of distribution across a norm , of statistics and probability , ‘ normality ’ itself is simply a common-sense , inclusive definition of what it is to be human , with wider boundaries redefined from experience . |
| 29 | Lévi-Strauss ' point here , however , is simply the objection that Sartre defines ‘ man ’ in advance , predetermined by the particular experience of what it is to be a man in twentieth-century post-war French society . |
| 30 | The most striking feature of pupil descriptions of what it is to be a good teacher is the great emphasis placed on interpersonal respect . |