Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] it be [noun prp] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thalberg was interested but thought that it was not quite MGM 's thing as that studio was moving away from its earlier interest in realistic films towards glossier entertainment , and eventually it was Chaplin who arranged the film 's release through United Artists , although Vidor had to mortgage his every possession before firm backing was achieved . |
| 2 | And so it was Emily who , if all that had been said about herself and George was true , would miss him most and she was absent from the funeral . |
| 3 | John is n't satisfied with it , we are bogged down , and finally it is Campbell who comes up with a plausible route through drunken , volatile shifts of feeling . |
| 4 | Of course during the previous factional struggles it had been Trotsky who had been accused of advocating policies which would have led to a split between the working class and peasantry , but now it was Stalin who was in Bukharin 's sights . |
| 5 | Peterborough have been looking increasingly like first division fodder but today it was Birmingham who were left scrabbling around for crumbs and there were n't too many of them . |
| 6 | It should have been just the incentive Ipswich needed to take control of the game but instead it was Newcastle who went in at half-time leading . |
| 7 | She wrote ‘ ROSALBA ’ , for indeed it was Rosalba who was there , holding the kitchen knife in her hand as Tommaso came through the door . |