Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] be [art] [noun] [Wh det] " in BNC.

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1 This interplay and this conflict are the driving forces of history/ they are a process which Marx referred to by the word ‘ dialectic ’ .
2 In the case of Treasury bills it is the government which will be paying — no loss effectively possible there .
3 On later models it is the tag which holds the rad cap chain and is thus marked 4M54 , which means April 1954 .
4 I remember him telling me how over the years it was a role which he had been able to approach from many different standpoints .
5 For Melossi it 's the discourses which count :
6 On the one hand it makes no demands , he wrote , on the other it is the vitriol which corrodes everything with which it comes into contact , the Gorgon which turns to stone all who gaze upon it .
7 Since Count Humbert 's lands controlled all the passes in the Western Alps it was a marriage which opened up intriguing , if uncertain , prospects , and Henry was willing to pay 5000 marks in order to secure it .
8 But of course , of course is if there is any evidence whatsoever er of financial mismanagement in the police authority it is a matter which has to be properly investigated .
9 Last week it was the Deutschmark which was everybody 's darling , now it is the dollar and oil prices .
10 Thus , in a few moths ( Erannis defoliaria , etc. ) , the females alone are apterous , while in the Chalcid genus Blastophaga it is the male which has lost the wings .
11 In Britain it is the curriculum which bears the main burden of transmitting the national idea .
12 If you told Lydon he was a wanker what would happen ?
13 Toughness requires some increase in complexity ; in a sense it is a property which has to be designed for .
14 This is the " fire which consumes everything that is dark " ( Fire of Love , prologue , p.47 ) ; at this stage of the treatise it is a metaphor whose full implications have not been developed , but it is the goal of this form of living .
15 In both instances it was the sister whose earnings had been substantially restricted or reduced .
16 In each case it was a duty which was imposed on the judges in their capacity as judges of the superior courts and related to the administration of justice in those courts .
17 And for the most part it is the vocals which supply the important shades of light and dark on ‘ Nevermind ’ , winding their way in and out of the psyched guitar and flowing backline .
18 And of course it 's a budget which is on an attitude towards the Parkside Pool problem which we disagree with therefore in no way do we support it .
19 On the contrary it is a book which looks beyond the statistics , preferring to place its confidence in the dross and disasters of the Scottish game .
20 Where 's a , if you can get a I forget what it 's called now , they advertise in erm er is it Telegraph , Times it 's a newspaper which is just for jobs abroad .
21 ‘ In the west it is the prices which are hard to accept and in the east people are unhappy about unemployment .
22 In Japan it will be to the particular company , while in the Arab world it is the family which is the key to social , business and over-arching structures .
23 Government sources said , however , that in the end it was the conditions which would eventually determine timing of British participation .
24 With half the NFL games played on artificial turf it is the knee which is the most frequently injured part of the body , as our graphic shows .
25 At first the family gather round it and at the end as the actors steal away into the darkness it is the piano which makes the final sounds .
26 In a head-modifier construction , the modifier is the selector , but in a head-complement construction it is the head which is the selector .
27 Well , in theory up to an extent you are the answer which means that we have to buy less things , eat less , and , because we are you know that , I mean , I mean n I do n't want to , I mean I 'm not talking to anyone in particular , but we have a lot of very very big people and .
28 From a business perspective it is a manoeuvre which meets a much-recognised need for the agency to offer clients international service .
29 I begin by showing how different phases of that temporal process are associated with different spaces in and around the longhouse and end by showing that the very same " space-time " principles underlie the structure of the cosmos The anthropologist must regard the ancestral cosmos as an imaginary projection of present experience , but at the same time it is a projection which both controls present experience and forms an integral part of it .
30 In fact it was a kettle which had gone out of production eight years ago .
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