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

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1 He did this so effectively that it is to this day referred to as the Wallace Line .
2 It seems entirely possible that it is to this period — roughly from 873/1468 ( or perhaps earlier ) to 878/1473–4 — that the Muftilik of Abdulkerim belongs , that he succeeded Fahreddin Acemi on the latter 's death and must then later have resigned or been removed from the Muftilik , perhaps to make way for Molla Husrev when he returned from Bursa .
3 Indeed it will be argued later in this book that it is at this level — the level of field support — that the greatest single power to achieve innovation may lie .
4 The Copenhagen school therefore says that it is at this stage that results get fixed and knowledge is established .
5 One could argue that it is on this account that the restorer applies his efforts to the material element of the work .
6 I suspect that it is in this challenge to popular feminist orthodoxies that the book 's significance will rest .
7 It is probably true to say that it is in this way , rather than in any other , that governments learn exactly where the limits of tolerance lie .
8 To suppose that this century can fix the definition of democracy or , even more arrogantly , that it is in this century that democracy has been finally and definitively realized , is to be blind not only to the probabilities of the future but also to the certainties of the past .
9 And it might even be said that it is from this , far more than from early Christianity , that we have inherited our sense of the dubious physical nature of the female , and our idea that the human norm is male and that to be female is in itself a pathological state .
10 Not until the 1880s did ‘ social purity ’ have any major legislative purchase ; and it is significant that it is from this period that the earliest critiques of ‘ Victorianism ’ stem .
11 In spite of all that has been said by popular moralists , along the lines of honesty being the best policy , everyone really knows implicitly that it is by this test of universalisability that one should determine what one ought to do .
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