Example sentences of "it be [noun] [prep] [pron] [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | It 's blokes like him who get the National Health Service a good name . |
2 | I 'm an old hand at Falcon Sailing — it 's thanks to them I know that a holding tank 's nothing to do with the Russians in Prague . |
3 | Well it 's E times itself nought point three times . |
4 | No , it 's Serumchromoglycate with it What it What 's it Now we know We know all about that cos we a lot of it in aspirin and problems with noses and things like that , but er I was n't aware that it was actually used by mouth for this . |
5 | She never forgets that it 's Howard to whom they all owe their place in the new order of things . |
6 | And only one for Blofeld , saying , ‘ It 's people like you who are ruining the ecological balance of our very planet . ’ |
7 | It 's people like you who are the cynics — ’ |
8 | Although modern haymaking involves expensive , sophisticated machinery , it is still possible for a smallholder to make and store excellent hay with very modest tackle , and it is hay on which he is most likely to depend for the bulk of his winter keep . |
9 | Most of their neighbours have children , and because all the space around them is spare , it is space over which they have no control , and therefore ca n't use . |
10 | But if it is work in which we can join , the question needs to be asked : will we respond decisively ? |
11 | I will reply a little more freely , because you are who you are ; and because it is Gustave of whom I speak . |
12 | Though Berkeley mentions the scholastics , ‘ those great masters of abstraction ’ , it is Locke on whom he particularly focuses in his criticism of abstract ideas . |
13 | It is people like him who gave birth to people like Adolf Hitler . |
14 | People like Mr Falk are trained and I would have thought that it is people like him who should be involved in such programmes . |
15 | Nor to tell her that it was women like her who prevented girls doing well in sciences . |
16 | In fact it was papier-mache on which someone had done a skilful paint job . |
17 | When Gerard Salvin wanted redress against the men who had attacked his house at Croxdale , just a few miles south of Durham itself , it was Gloucester to whom he appealed . |
18 | When Gerard Salvin wanted redress against the men who had attacked his house at Croxdale , just a few miles south of Durham itself , it was Gloucester to whom he appealed . |
19 | Nowadays , it was technology without which you would fail . |
20 | I told him , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) it was people like him who kept the idea of art going , kept the opera houses of the world open , kept the bookshops of the world open , they ought to take you out and shoot you , I said to him . |