Example sentences of "and it be the [noun pl] who " in BNC.

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1 Some scientists would still maintain that science is neutral , and it is the politicians who select and implement their inventions in particular ways and who should therefore shoulder the blame for undesirable consequences .
2 Birmingham Labour MP Richard Burden commented : ‘ It is utterly scandalous … and it is the patients who are going to suffer . ’
3 The history of the working class has ‘ survived by word of mouth , in stories and anecdotes ’ , she declares , rightly , and it is the novelists who honour that history whom she admires .
4 And it is the auditors who should be most worried by the UITF statement and Professor Tweedie 's warning .
5 Nonetheless , the government became increasingly divided in 1947 on a range of issues , and it was the Communists who were usually at odds with their coalition partners .
6 For a long time it looked as if Newcastle were going to leave with the three points they so desperately needed and it was the visitors who drew first blood .
7 In the event , Milena died practically in Margerete 's arms in 1944 , and it was the Americans who liberated Ravensbruck .
8 It was the women who had to face their children 's disappointment at their unmet wants and it was the women who constantly had to say no :
9 And then there was a study into and area of Belfast where most of the men were unemployed and it was the women who were going out to work in the factory and it was found to be the other way round , and the women spoke more of a non-standard than the men did when the men were staying at home .
10 Freeman has given the example of a West Riding firm which despatched its woollen goods entirely by road , and it was the customers who paid carriage .
11 One had to have ton , and it was the patronesses who decided who had it and who did not .
12 There were at the time parallel proceedings against the mortgagees to preserve the plaintiff 's priority rights against the property by virtue of the caution entered at the Land Registry , and it was the mortgagees who requested an adjournment from 6 June 1991 to a later date .
13 They 'd always had the power to exhange fines for prison , and it was the police who simply did n't understand the law .
14 On Wednesday night he did but it was n't Bangor wearing their usual strip … they are also Apoel Nicosia 's colours and it was the Cypriots who squeezed through 3-2 on aggregate .
15 And it was the earls who could produce the great and so necessary manpower .
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