Example sentences of "[conj] it be the [noun] [pron] " 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 | It 's just because or they over estimated it or it 's the price you know |
| 3 | Yes , either that , or it 's the work I 've been doing . |
| 4 | This is why registration in Part A is preferable although it is the defendant who carries the burden of proof . |
| 5 | It is conventional wisdom among advice agencies , local authorities and fuel boards that it 's the women who pick up the tab for men 's mismanagement . |
| 6 | She has always known that it 's the fans who count . ’ |
| 7 | of thing so I would have thought that it 's the sort they 're looking for . |
| 8 | So what 's happened to the idea that it 's the polluter who should pay for the clean-up , farmers and nitrate manufacturers . |
| 9 | ‘ And when will you get it into your head that it 's the project I 'm trying to keep in mind ? |
| 10 | But now an MP is concerned that it 's the thieves who are cashing in by using the sales as clearing houses for stolen property . |
| 11 | So you get , if you like , a development here er of presidential authority and the perception of the presidency both from the point of view of incumbents and from the point of view of the American people and gradually in the twentieth century you get an increasing focus an increasing focus on the presidency as the engine of government , that it 's the president who makes things happen , it 's the president who fixes things , it 's the president who responds to crises and as the crises become more frequent and the crises become more intense so the focus on the president also expands and the Buchanan view is now no longer tenable , the Buchanan view it 's not possible for any president to play the dignified monarch . |
| 12 | The use of I in the paraphrase suggests moreover that it is the speaker who somehow sees himself before the infinitive event because it implies that he has not yet realized his desire . |
| 13 | This bottom-up approach may well be a very fruitful way of trying to understand what language is and how it works , but that does not mean that it is the best way to teach a language , or that it is the way we use a language when we do know it . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | If one finds , as one sometimes does , that an Act contains a provision that does not make sense , it is only too easy to assume that it is the draftsman who has made an error . |
| 16 | ‘ We put the hyphen between ‘ veteran ’ and ‘ cycle ’ to indicate that it is the cycles which are old , though some of the members are almost as old as the machines , ’ Ian claimed . |
| 17 | In her other essay she considers the theme of female deceptiveness in those scriptures , arguing that it is the text itself which is deceptive through its failing to name the real problem : namely that the power relations which pertained between men and women forced women to seek to obtain their ends through underhand means , while at the same time the deviousness of women is used to justify their inferior position . |
| 18 | Commentary … allows us to say something other than the text itself , but on condition that it is the text itself which is said , and in a sense completed . |
| 19 | Every slimming club leader knows that it is the member who registers a good weight loss at her weekly weigh-in who is most likely to keep up her dieting and return to the club next week , while the member who records a disappointingly low weight loss is the most likely to drop out . |
| 20 | One complaint , which often occurred , was that it is the blacks who hold the real prejudices . |
| 21 | Under these circumstances the parents need to be able to take over from each other so that it is the child who tires and not the parents . |
| 22 | Implicit in some definitions for differentiated learning is the assumption that it is the child who has the ‘ problem ’ when there is a breakdown in learning . |
| 23 | In the above case The Times mentioned that ‘ the rapist has been leading a fox-style existence living rough in wooded countryside ’ , but within a few months it was clear , in yet another case , that it is the nickname itself which becomes crucial rather than any particular style of existence . |
| 24 | Having established the point that it is the patient who ultimately may set the limits to the doctor 's intervention , it is now necessary to consider the duties which arise in the usual circumstances in which treatment is consented to . |
| 25 | The families are within that structure , where it is accepted that it is the man who goes out to work . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | In I Corinthians 2 he can say almost in the same breath that it is the Spirit who shows believers the deep things of God , and that we have the mind of Christ . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | On the New Right the denial is often accompanied by the claim that it is the anti-racists who are the real racists ( Barker , 1981 ) . |
| 30 | 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 . |