Example sentences of "[conj] it be the [noun sg] [Wh det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the earlier view a work was regarded as a more or less arbitrarily agglomerated collection of defamiliarizing devices , but now it becomes important to see it as an entity , a structure or a system where it is the system which determines what the function of a given device will be , whether it will be foregrounded or automatized . |
| 2 | The absence of a retarded signal in lane 2 confirms that it is the cDNA which is bound to the NCp7 in lanes 4–5 . |
| 3 | Indeed the tenacity of Roman concrete and mortar was so great that today , in the ruined buildings of the Empire , it can be seen that it is the stone which has fractured not the material which binds it . |
| 4 | Reading between the lines it becomes clear that it is the address which was recorded , in a studio re-creation to cash in on the President 's assassination . |
| 5 | In Germany , as in America , the considerable involvement of federal grants in the financing of the Länder , together with the fact that it is the Union which decides the bulk of taxes , allow for deep central influence on Länder policy making . |
| 6 | Note that it is the heel which rests on the board , not the whole foot . |
| 7 | There are some , he continued , ‘ so deranged , not only in religion but who in all things reveal their monstrous nature , that they will say that the sun does not move , and that it is the earth which shifts and turns . ’ |
| 8 | Mr. Beloff submits that the requirement of notice to bodies , such as Winchester , was necessary to ensure that they did not breach the intervention notice , but in my view the limitation of the category of those entitled to be given notice to persons who will be prejudicially affected can only mean that it is the prejudice which brings with it the necessity to serve . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , the point which comes across again and again in spoken language interpreting is that it is the meaning which is being translated . |
| 10 | Even going to the length of alleging in the public press that it was the Board which was in breach of its contract . |
| 11 | Here , one felt that it was the orchestra which gave the work its verve . |
| 12 | Firstly , it viewed the company as distinct from its shareholders and therefore , unlike the contractual model , it could be seen to support the theory that it was the company which was liable for any debts . |
| 13 | She found that she was bringing more and more discipline to her writing for the Clarion , and thinking of this she noticed that it was the Clarion which Dr Neil was reading , or pretending to read , for her new awareness told her that , too . |
| 14 | He would claim that it was the sentence which changed his life , convinced him that acting was worth doing . |
| 15 | Suffering fever , blindness and paralysis , they reached Lake Tanganyika in 1857 but it was Speke who eventually found Lake Victoria and realized that it was the reservoir which fed the great river . |
| 16 | But Downing Street made it clear that it was the Cabinet which set the £244.5 billion spending target — and it can increase that figure if it wants to . |
| 17 | And it 's the trend which , in addition to its desire to see our juniors competing on the same surfaces as their international counterparts , has seen our own LTA encourage the court manufacturers in this country towards the cushioned acrylic type of tennis courts . |
| 18 | The finished product ( or parts of it ) can be printed out either dot matrix , inkjet or laser printer and it is the output which lets this program down . |
| 19 | And it is the document which the quality auditors will initially use to check that the quality system exists , is operating and is fit for the purpose . |
| 20 | The Transport and General Workers ' Union also contains about 11000 farm workers in its agricultural section , but the majority of these are located in Scotland and it is the NUAAW which is generally regarded as the industrial union for farm workers in England and Wales . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , these associations are articulated into a new pattern , and it is the vocal which plays an essential part in that process , in making the song a rock song . |
| 22 | And it is the spirit which makes things happen . ’ |
| 23 | and it is the phenotype which most biologists think is the genetic mechanism for evolution . |
| 24 | With closed.loop control , however , the switching angle is determined by the controller , and it is the speed which varies until the motor and load torques are matched . |
| 25 | There are many ducts and glands opening into the urethra , and it is the urethra which is the site of infection or inflammation in urethritis . |
| 26 | In this traditional kind of song there is usually a well-defined tonal scheme , melodic phrases are symmetrical with repetitions of rhythmic outlines , and it is the melody which is all-important . |
| 27 | ‘ If it is the intestine which is infected , the infection is transient and will not reach inside the egg , ’ he said . |
| 28 | Do not wear excessive jewellery , especially if it is the sort which jangles . |
| 29 | All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake . |
| 30 | The ability to write clearly and well is a tool of the trade and a very necessary one , but it is the idea which you have that will make your advertising stand out from the rest . |