Example sentences of "that it be a [noun] who " in BNC.
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| 1 | He forbids divorce , but implicitly accepts that it is a man who initiates divorce , ‘ the man who divorces his wife … |
| 2 | In much of the discussion it has been assumed that it is a parent who seeks the information . |
| 3 | Someone must plough the fields or milk the cows , but much of this endeavour takes place hidden from public view and when a tractor is glimpsed across a field it is often assumed that it is a farmer who is in the cab . |
| 4 | Wordsworth worked from observation — ‘ The incident occurred in the village of Holford , close by Alfoxden ’ , — but in a letter of 1836 he makes it clear that it was a friend who actually saw the man . |
| 5 | The fact that it was a woman who delivered the doubly-sexist utterance makes it no more PC . |