Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] it be [noun] [Wh pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Empty phrases to give you the illusion that it 's Adam who 's holding you , and not me ? |
| 2 | Ironically Leicester are heading for the top using Brian Clough 's style of passing football and it 's Forest who are reverting to more of the long ball game . |
| 3 | Charlie made no reply and it was Jack who said , ‘ Why , have you ? ’ |
| 4 | If Niki had sought to impress Prost with a victory at the very start of the season , the ploy did n't work : an improperly soldered battery cable put him out of action and it was Prost who impressed . |
| 5 | The Times hypothesised in the course of the election campaign that it was leaders who lost elections , not challengers who won them . |
| 6 | But it was only when Susato began to publish at Antwerp in 1543 that their songs appeared in quantity and it was Susato who really launched Crecquillon with a book of 36 chansons à 4 parties in 1543 , though he had published Crecquillon 's greatest hit , ‘ Ung gay bergier ’ , in a miscellaneous collection the year before . |
| 7 | Wright continued to dazzle Ipswich in the second half but it was Campbell who completed a brilliant hat-trick . |
| 8 | They were tactful in avoiding any reference to the case and it was Wycliffe who , mellowed by good food and a couple of glasses of Burgundy , brought it up . |
| 9 | Mr Pincher , though , is only the ghost writer and it 's Dido who 's grabbing the headlines . |
| 10 | ‘ People look for new ways to supplement their income and it is employers who feel the pinch . ’ |
| 11 | Felipe took no notice whatever of his sister and it was Maggie who had to comfort her and assure her that no harm had been done . |
| 12 | Among a series of films designed to cash in on the success of Hitchcock 's Psycho ( 1960 ) , for example , was Seth Holt 's The Nanny ( 1965 ) , made with the visual flair of his earlier Hammer picture , Taste of Fear ( 1961 ) , and telling the powerful tale of two sisters , both dependent in their own way on the woman who brought them up , who pay no attention to the declarations of their son and nephew that it was nanny who killed his sister and now wants to kill him . |
| 13 | There is some evidence that it was Snowden who suggested the formula of the ‘ doctor 's mandate ’ , at a Cabinet meeting on 5 October , under which the component parts of the National Government were each to issue their own manifestos , with a separate personal appeal from the Prime Minister , According to Neville Chamberlain , ‘ Snowden … produced the suggestion that the Prime Minister should issue his own manifesto asking for a free hand [ i.e. on tariffs ] and the two Party leaders should each issue their own programmes and to our astonishment this was at once accepted by the Liberals , ' Amery , who perhaps got the information from Chamberlain , wrote in his diary on 6 October , ‘ Apparently when the deadlock seemed most complete Snowden suggested that the PM should issue his own manifesto , each of the other party leaders issuing theirs . ' |
| 14 | Nobody spoke for a while and it was Sarah who eventually broke the silence . |
| 15 | But the visitors were unable to take advantage of the strong tailwind and it was Alton who scored a vital goal to lead 1–0 at half-time . |
| 16 | Her brow furrowed on the realisation that it was Niall who had been responsible for the last-minute change of plans . |
| 17 | DEEP THINKERS Forward planning O'Donovan also offers the simple but profound thought that it is women who will be giving birth to the next generation of Rugby League players . |
| 18 | The game was being played at furious pace and it was Richardson who was put to the test when he dived to turn round a long drive from Darlington in the thirty eighth minute . |
| 19 | This does not mean that national history and culture will not bulk large in the educational systems of particular countries , especially the smaller ones , or that they may not flourish locally within a much broader supranational framework as , say , Catalan culture today flourishes , but on the tacit assumption that it is Catalans who will communicate with the rest of the world through Spanish and English , since few non-residents in Catalonia will be able to communicate in the local language . |
| 20 | Despite Sartre 's reiteration that it is man who makes it , history increasingly assumes its own ontological status in the Critiques . |
| 21 | He looked at them in silence and it was Acorn who spoke next . |
| 22 | It is people who give you encouragement and support to turn ideas and dreams into reality and it is people who become friends . |
| 23 | Although they are cross with themselves for being so soft , in the end they discover that they did the right thing because it is Gollum who shows them the way to Mount Doom , and Gollum who finally disposes of the Ring . |
| 24 | It is a curious joke of history that it was Stalin who gave Lithuania its capital city ( between the wars it was in Poland ) , and Tito who , in order to weaken great-Serbian chauvinism , created a much larger Croatia with a much larger Serbian minority . |
| 25 | The answer is ‘ yes ’ : a recent article , drawing on Eusebius ' Life of Constantine , seems to show without doubt that it was Constantine who introduced this law : Eusebius describes measures implemented by Constantine which can only be understood as referring to this law . |
| 26 | But there was no doubt that it was Rangers who deserved to emerge from this memorable encounter as worthy victors . |
| 27 | There can be no doubt that it was Ine who set the seal on the creation of the historic kingdom of Wessex and defined its horizons as a Christian realm in which monasticism and men of letters flourished amid active involvement in an overseas mission . |
| 28 | The record stopped in mid tune and it was Charity who slammed her window shut . |
| 29 | For Swindon it was shooting practice young Marcus Phillips on as sub for the first time nearly got a goal but it was Torquay who tookover towards the end … |
| 30 | There may be , too , a sotto voce challenge to the received wisdom that it is people who cause desertification . |