Example sentences of "it be the [adj] [noun pl] who " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it 's the educated women who suffer . |
| 2 | If the new , friendlier systems do come onto the market , and if they 're bought as presents and so on , and they get into the homes and they get into the schools , then people will just learn to use them , and it 's the existing professionals who may have to change their habits to accommodate . |
| 3 | It 's the other guests who need your attention . |
| 4 | But it is the Japanese manufacturers who have made a poor showing in the DSP arena — probably due in part to a lack of commitment and feeble marketing . |
| 5 | The blue chip authors are holding their own , but it is the new authors who are really struggling in the current climate . |
| 6 | Women 's rights are closely linked to the rights of the poor … because it is the poor women who especially bear the overwhelming burdens of providing for the survival of the family … |
| 7 | Boaden 's examination of L.A. expenditure on education reached the conclusion that ‘ it is the poor authorities who spend most , despite their relative poverty , ’ because they are run by Labour councils which are more favourably disposed towards high expenditure on education than Conservative councils . |
| 8 | These experiments do not support the notion that poor readers are unlikely to use context when reading , and go some way to suggesting that it is the poor readers who rely on context to aid their weak word-recognition skills . |
| 9 | It is the young men who say yes or no . |
| 10 | Although they suffer from a shortage of personnel themselves it is the young churches who are now providing the Church with missionaries . |
| 11 | Already in 1957 Roland Barthes was claiming that ‘ today it is the colonized peoples who assume the full ethical and political condition described by Marx as being that of the proletariat ’ . |
| 12 | As it is inevitably the biggest , toughest Orcs that become more important it goes without saying that it is the big Orcs who get bigger ! |
| 13 | Although it is the hereditary peers who give the House of Lords its raison d'être , it is the life peers who give the place its intellectual distinction and who produce the most impressive arguments in examining the details of legislation . |
| 14 | There is also the adjective so-called , which in a comparably explicit way calls into question the relation between an entity and the description or properties which might be supposed to belong to it : ( 42 ) it is the so-called liberals who have closed down the press The author of this sentence is not casting doubt on the existence of the people he is writing about , nor on the existence of such properties as may be characterized by the word liberals ( nor for that matter the existence of people who might be so described ) but only on the validity of the relationship between the description " liberals " and the people who are acting as censors in the situation portrayed by this particular sentence . |
| 15 | I would remind Mr Bruce that in Scottish schools today the general bias is humanistic and it is the Christian parents who are being denied their rights . |
| 16 | Presumably , it is the wicked socialists who are responsible for that , but we never hear them mentioned . |
| 17 | This was surprising in view of the fact that , under this Act , it is the local authorities who are empowered to provide and maintain such buildings , vehicles , apparatus , and equipment as may be required for the police purposes of their area . |
| 18 | While his loyalism gave him urban working-class support , it was the rural Protestants who were most receptive to his evangelical emphases and who made a seat like Bannside obviously attractive . |
| 19 | It was the unreconstructed Communists who continued in charge . |
| 20 | Indeed , claim Thatcherites , it was the Blue Chips who plotted her downfall in November 1990 . |
| 21 | It was the woollen weavers who were most alarmed , fearing that the proposed reduction of import duties on French wines to the same level as those on Portuguese wines would provoke the Portuguese to lay a high duty on English woollen goods , or even prohibit their import altogether , which would be the " Utter Ruin of that Trade " . |
| 22 | It was the committed Christians who were , in the main , sympathetic , and the dedicated atheists who thought it ‘ in rather poor taste ’ . |
| 23 | It was the Eastphalian tribes who first did homage to Charles , accepting Christianity ; they were soon followed by the Engrians , and hostages were taken as security for the oaths made . |
| 24 | It was the ordinary police who prevented a complete collapse of law and order in the loyalist urban districts of Belfast . |
| 25 | A clear result showed that it was the Phoenician readers who were most vulnerable to the presence of irregular words . |
| 26 | On present evidence it appears that Classical Greek craftsmen were the first to employ enamel , but that it was the Byzantine Greeks who carried the craft to a new level of accomplishment in the service of the imperial court and the rituals of eastern Christianity . |
| 27 | It was the small firms who first spotted specialized market segments and exploited them , and they are encouraged in this by the ability to sub-contract most of the holiday provision to other operators . |
| 28 | It was the outside authorities who asked too much . |
| 29 | It was the upper classes who sent 60,000 children to public school every year and who did not recognize the need to control family size in the way in which the middle classes did . |
| 30 | Has the Prince forgotten that it was the French farmers who attacked British lorry drivers and burned their cargoes of lamb ? |