Example sentences of "[Wh det] [noun sg] it [be] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wh what I mean to say is I could n't in advance guess which field it was that you were going to want at any particular moment . |
| 2 | Equally , the discomfort associated with gonorrhoea is usually of a greater order , and men who have suffered repeated attacks of both infections can usually tell which infection it is that they have on any given occasion . |
| 3 | I do n't know whose idea it is that it goes on and on . |
| 4 | A Private Bill proposal almost invariably emanates from the person or organisation in whose interest it is that it should be promoted . |
| 5 | As can be seen from the above it is possible to give questions a greater focus of purpose by considering what process it is that you wish the pupils to go through . |
| 6 | Whatever implement it was that hit him went a long way round his skull but did n't penetrate very far , for which he should thank his stars . ’ |
| 7 | You must describe to yourself precisely what behaviour it is that you are going to observe . |
| 8 | Again they ask of what significance it is that the metaphors used for God in the Hebrew and Christian scriptures are overwhelmingly male ? ) |
| 9 | They used to run down into the Nerd , or whatever river it is that runs through Ealing , and throw themselves in , yelling about the love of Jesus . |
| 10 | Yes , and you get all the animals who are experimented on and you sa there 's not a week that comes out and you do n't an a report saying , oh well this this , this causes cancer in rats or and you , imagine the amount , the huge amounts of the sub , whatever substance it is that had been given to rats to cause the cancer , and there 's no knowing that the amount that 's gon na be given to rats causing cancer , will give cancer to humans ! |
| 11 | Rather than only training women to take on roles that have been shaped by men over the centuries , would it not be far more interesting , more expansive , to look into the questions of priestesshood , to find out what mystery it is that women can touch on , and how they can communicate it to the human world ? |
| 12 | Not to a Jewish God , not to a Christian one , not in Hebrew or English but in his native Polish , and to whatever power it was that made the stars shine , and the clouds drift , a lone wolf howl and an eagle fly free over wild country . |
| 13 | It danced in consort with whatever power it was that provoked her thought , and so energetically at times that , when a day 's work was over , she felt as weary as one of the dancing princesses from a fairy-tale , exhausted by their demon partners . |
| 14 | For the clinical and educational professions ( and the lay notions which derive their values from them ) , their very practice makes it clear what fact it is that you ‘ come to terms ’ with : you have not given birth to a member of the human species as we define it , and to which we allocate certain rights and social roles , but to an object of pathology — a ‘ monster ’ , to use a technical term employed in medical anatomy . |