Example sentences of "it [be] [noun] [conj] have " in BNC.

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1 It were Gill that had the fire brigade up that night were n't it ?
2 My institute would wish for it 's concern that having striven to establish the statutory qualification , the Diploma in Trading Standards , and consequently persuading employing authorities as officers holding that qualification use the title Trading Standards Officers now sees the potential of confusion .
3 It 's money that has gone missing and the High Court proceedings are an attempt to recover it .
4 I think it 's sort of accepted that men need their leisure time you know , it 's vital to them to either get out to the pub or get their leisure time and it 's women that 's considered they do n't need it , they 're you know , I do n't think it 's se se se , considered as important .
5 It 's company that 's got bases in
6 It 's Man that has to put Nature right , you know , and not vice versa .
7 It 's Dad that 's made me ill , ’ she said .
8 It 's exhaustion that 's made him ill . ’
9 Well it 's engineer that has the , has it all run now
10 Is that clear it 's people that 've spoken to .
11 complained how he says I 've got one of his and I had n't got it , it 's Linda that had got it .
12 With 16Mb of memory — going to 32Mb or 64Mb — it is $8,800 and has on-board local network connector , a Centronics parallel port , two RS-232-C ports and an SCSI-2 SE port ; the bundled HP-UX 9.01 operating system carries a two-user licence .
13 With 16Mb of memory — going to 32Mb or 64Mb — it is $8,800 and has on-board local network connector , a Centronics parallel port , two RS-232-C ports and an SCSI-2 SE port ; the bundled HP-UX 9.01 operating system carries a two-user licence .
14 George 's patience is probably what keeps Lennie from really getting himself into trouble , all the time and it is patience that has kept Lennie alive so long .
15 It is management that have to address themselves to the solutions , either by using internal resources or by engaging outside consultants .
16 In Britain and America , for example , wine has grown at the expense of beer and spirits whilst in Spain and Italy , it is beer that has grown at the expense of wine and spirits .
17 Trestles make it all so much easier and safer , and it is worth while having a second one so that everyone can relax for a few minutes if it is proving difficult to align both wings to get the main pins in place .
18 Action in the majority of adventure stories is seen both to affect and to be affected by character but in the end it is action that has the final word , in the romantic happy ending in which the heroism of man is affirmed .
19 It is quantification that has produced most of the difficulty in the present case .
20 On the contrary , it is Switzerland that has the world 's biggest food manufacturing multinational ( Nestlé ) , the world 's biggest pharmaceutical manufacturer ( Ciba-Geigy ) , a leading power-engineering conglomerate ( ABB ) , as well as leading niche machine-tool manufacturers and , in Swatch , a product that took on and beat the Japanese in a sector that they were thought to have won forever , the watch industry .
21 It is time that has speeded up , so everything gets speeded up — not just the clocks — but your heart-beat , your breathing , the rate at which your brain ticks over , and so the rate at which you think .
22 Ironically , it was change that had driven Tubby back to active service — change in civvy street and in the set ways of the pre-war world he had been used to .
23 She did not say more and when he came closer he saw that if it was sleep that had found her it was of a troubled nightmare kind , the sleep of the ill and the stressed .
24 Nevertheless , when the controversial Shas leader and interior minister , Arye Deri , brought his conflict with Ms Aloni to a head by submitting his resignation on May 9th , it was Meretz that had to give way .
25 The Prime Minister stated in March 1990 that it was privatisation that had enabled the sulphur cuts to be made in other ways .
26 She also told him that it was prayer that had brought him to her .
27 She apologizes to Thrift for having been angry , then remembers that it was Thrift that had dictated her previous parsimonious , sparing applications , and is confused .
28 It was Lee that had the bleeding nose , not him .
29 But in footballing terms it was move that had to be made .
30 Though he 'd dimly thought it was sentiment that had driven him back here , he saw now it was not .
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