Example sentences of "[noun sg] that it be [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , erm , what kinds of changes can be performed on me and still it would be the case that it 's me ? |
| 2 | It begins to sound from this description that it 's I twelve which is a bit of a dinosaur , a a dodo , that this is a county trying to carry on a thing which has probably passed its sell by date , that er it is n't fair to say that I five is primarily for industry , erm that is n't what the law says it is . |
| 3 | One former employee at Church House recalls occasions when he has intervened in staffing decisions more properly the sphere of General Synod on the basis that it is he who writes the cheques . |
| 4 | Shinwell believed to his dying day that it was he who had been the intended target of French 's bullet . |
| 5 | What was more , Fox was satisfied that the presence of Alfred 's fresh prints on the damaged articles was convincing evidence that it was he who had carried out the destruction . |
| 6 | In this survey , I have elected to concentrate on English presses , in the belief that it is they that will be largely sought by English collectors ; but I am much aware of the many fine examples in other countries , not least in America , where such names as Bruce Rogers of the Riverside Press , Cambridge , Mass. , Frederic Goudy of the Village Press , Park Ridge , Illinois ( and later Marlborough , New York ) and Daniel Berkeley Updike , who set up the Merrymount Press , will always be honoured . |
| 7 | These older Shetlanders seemed to create the incomers ' links to the community , in the sense that it was they who helped to forge the reputations attributed to these incomers . |
| 8 | What had happened , because his holidays coincided with mine , was that my father had become my mother as well as my father , in the sense that it was he and not she who was always at home . |
| 9 | But I am prepared to accept that her delusions of grandeur are a form of psychosis connected with ageing and that her refusal to consider retirement springs from an awareness that it is she , not the country , who is in danger of falling to bits is she desists from hyper-activity . |
| 10 | In Illich 's view , such treatment ‘ is but a device to convince those who are sick and tired of society that it is they who are ill , impotent and in need of repair ’ . |
| 11 | Joanna 's startled face jolted Isabel into the realisation that it was she who had spoken , not the reeve . |
| 12 | I could n't bear the thought that it was you he loved . |
| 13 | And I was in my early fifties when everybody tells the world that it 's it 's harder to adapt and get er some of the traits out of your system . |
| 14 | This is on the understanding that it is you personally who will be preparing the material . |
| 15 | I think that the simple answer that it 's you , the media , who decide whether an event is a disaster by the way in which you report it . |
| 16 | He then realised that he had already seen his son some distance from the door and that his conviction that it was him had been totally irrational . |
| 17 | No doubt that it was him . |
| 18 | ‘ There is no doubt that it was you in charge when the hoax call was made . |
| 19 | The trust is invalid on several counts : no property has been bequeathed to the curator so the principle of benefit is infringed ; if the curator had been validly appointed , which he has not , then he would be able to exercise some control over the foster-child 's use of the land ; but even then , since he would not be owner , it would be a problem that it was he who was charged with the trust for distributing shares in the income from the land . |
| 20 | There was no proof that it was he who had taken the necklace . |
| 21 | Most im Very importantly , it is the area where I think there 's agreement almost around the table that it is it will be the area which will best meet the Greater York needs , rather than needs of Leeds or elsewhere in Greater York . |
| 22 | But look at someone like Jeff Beck ; he plays a Strat through a fuzzbox into a Marshall 50 head , and you ca n't mistake the fact that it 's him . |
| 23 | ‘ I just wish I could be sure that your chosen career had nothing to do with the fact that it was mine ! ’ |
| 24 | This development here , as you approach from Farnsfield , if you look at the angle of the position on site , will be clearly visible and it will create the impression that it is it is one single house , because they are so close together they will stick out like a sore thumb . |
| 25 | Although it was Dorothy who had come to interview the officials at PopCon ( ’ an Intergovernmental Agency for Fundamental Research into the Worldwide Problems of Population Stabilisation' ) , she kept getting the impression that it was they who were interrogating her . |
| 26 | Of course , ’ he added with a twisted smile , ‘ it was n't until your last day in the office that I realised you were under the impression that it was I who 'd had the affair with Elise . ’ |