Example sentences of "it is [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is since the 1950s that the expansion in education has really accelerated , with a resulting boost to literacy rates . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's always ‘ I wonder if you 'd mind ’ with him — never ‘ do this , do that ’ like it is with the Heptonstalls . |
| 3 | So it is with the financial servant and its industrial master . |
| 4 | So it is with the cross . |
| 5 | So it is with the resurrection of the dead . |
| 6 | And so it is with the orchestra . |
| 7 | As an object approaches and enlarges , the surrounding background recedes … so it is with the intellect , the emotions , loves and hates . |
| 8 | It is with such men as it is with the English landscape seen at its best as I did this morning : when one encounters them , one simply knows one is in the presence of greatness . |
| 9 | And it is with the statistical evaluation of leys that there is most controversy and where much work still needs doing . |
| 10 | It is with the porcupines , however , that the spiny defensive system reaches its zenith . |
| 11 | Thus it is with the apparent conflict between religion and science . |
| 12 | Establish exactly where it is with the aid of the locator system … and then introduce your Norfolk long-spade. push the blade 10 or 12 inches ( 25 or 30 centimetres ) into the ground immediately above the exact position of the ferret as defined by the locator and then put your ear to the ash shaft of the long-spade . |
| 13 | I was never going to be a replacement for his wife , just a diversion , and I hope that , if he thinks of me at all , it is with the same shiver of half-remembered pleasure with which I think of him . |
| 14 | It is with the greatest possible pleasure that I write to you once more , this time to confirm that your Company 's independence has been preserved after a battle which has lasted over nine months . |
| 15 | It is with the publication of Ideology and Utopia in an English translation in 1936 that the sociology of knowledge begins its uncomfortable incorporation into the discipline of ‘ sociology ’ . |
| 16 | It is with the greatest pleasure that I wish to throw a large bouquet in their direction . |
| 17 | And so it is with the genes , the natural bureaucrats . |
| 18 | It is one of the more perverse facets of human nature that the more we have , the more we want — and so it is with the rose . |
| 19 | It is with the subject in mind that Minton restates his belief that unless a painter paints with love , he or she is like a blacksmith hammering away with appropriate tools but no fire . |
| 20 | It is with the consent of the owners of the supermarket , be that consent express or implied , that the shopper does these acts and thus obtains at least control if not actual possession of the goods preparatory , at a later stage , to obtaining the property in them upon payment of the proper amount at the checkpoint . |
| 21 | It is with the latter sort of crime fiction that those of us who enjoy writing comedy will have most to do . |
| 22 | It is with the legitimacy of this discretion , and particularly with the form that the rules of company law should take in order to control it in the public interest , that this book is principally concerned . |
| 23 | Just how consistent it is with the prevailing relationship of disabled people to our able-bodied society comes clear when you look at some of the many questions which can be raised . |
| 24 | It is with the results of these experiments that the rest of this chapter is concerned . |
| 25 | Just as Jesus had come forth from the Father into the world as the Father 's gift to mankind , so it is with the Paraclete ( 5:43,16:28 , 3:16f ) . |
| 26 | As the Spirit equipped Jesus for his ministry , so it is with the people of Jesus . |
| 27 | And just as human wisdom is only perceived and passed on by the human spirit inside us , so it is with the truth of God . |
| 28 | So er just beware of what you 're doing when you , when you , course you can actually keep a mortgage a a account open , in other words you can keep it open on a pound a year whatever it is with the Halifax . |
| 29 | Now you can see how easy it is with the numbers to make mistakes especially if you 're multiplying by tens or hundreds or thousands or looking at , trying to just look at a bit of it , oh that 's just , oh hang on is that seven or is that seventeen ? |
| 30 | And so it is with the rest of us . |