Example sentences of "it be [art] [noun pl] who " in BNC.
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| 31 | Of the potential beneficiaries of enterprise zones — occupiers , developers , landowners and investors — it is the investors who gain the most . |
| 32 | It is the Americans who remake foreign films , not the other way round . |
| 33 | It is the parents who must set an example of consideration and true courtesy to the teenagers , whether they seem to deserve it or not . |
| 34 | At the christening it is the parents who have felt the need for religious involvement in the naming ceremony ; at the burial it is mainly the bereaved who are concerned and at the wedding it is the parties themselves who seek the ministrations of a church . |
| 35 | For example , while it is the professional who advises on methods of setting a baseline , it is the parents who actually observe , count and note the occurrence of the defined problem . |
| 36 | The main purpose of the discussion is to establish that parents understand behaviour good and bad is learned , that children can be ‘ untaught ’ the bad and taught the good , and that it is the parents who do the teaching using the simple methods and techniques you have demonstrated . |
| 37 | In the case of children 's behaviour it is the parents who have to face the problems and so ultimately it is the parents who have to solve them . |
| 38 | In the case of children 's behaviour it is the parents who have to face the problems and so ultimately it is the parents who have to solve them . |
| 39 | It is the optimists who did not react quickly enough to the downturn who have been caught out . |
| 40 | It is the seniors who inspect the tack and turnout of their fellow members in the ménage prior to riding out . |
| 41 | In the younger group it is the Whites who have a much higher arrest rate than Blacks — 13.3 per cent . |
| 42 | But it is the farmers who are the hardest to interest ( although all planting is grant-aided ) . |
| 43 | As has often been the case , it is the artists who are the forerunners of fashion , and fifty years later the world and his wife craved for Windermere . |
| 44 | If anything , it is the westerners who become the butt of the jokes . |
| 45 | Where industrial standards are concerned , it is the Germans who take the lead . |
| 46 | Consider the sentences in ( 10 ) with their sequences of verbs followed by adverbs or adverb phrases : ( 10 ) Farjeon clumsily undressed the refugees gazed hungrily into the window the ship was drifting almost imperceptibly to leeward In the last of these three cases nobody would understand the ship itself to be " almost imperceptible " ; in the second sentence , on the other hand , it is the refugees who are hungry ; gazes , whatever they may imply to a sensitive observer , do not experience hunger . |
| 47 | It is the students who refer to it as the black magic course . |
| 48 | In this Government it is the Ministers who decide on policy , not the consultants . |
| 49 | On the New Right the denial is often accompanied by the claim that it is the anti-racists who are the real racists ( Barker , 1981 ) . |
| 50 | It is the Armenians who live in what is left of the Armenian Republic — in the Soviet Republic of the same name — who perhaps have the only fragile opportunity of one day restoring their nation ; just as the Arab inhabitants of the West Bank and Gaza Strip are now the only Palestinians to be able to fight with any effect for their statehood . |
| 51 | But if he looks as though he may pounce on them , they shoot at him , and if they kill him , they cut him in pieces and roast him and regale themselves , repeating all the while , ‘ It is the Russians who are eating you , not us . ’ |
| 52 | If in Cosi it is the women who are put upon , then in L'Italiana in Algeri it is the eponymous heroine who wears the trousers — or so , at least , it ought to be . |
| 53 | It is the women who have fought this strike . |
| 54 | The present sixty , sixty five regime is discriminating against men , but when in reality it is the women who are in the much inferior position . |
| 55 | It is the females who come on heat and who therefore determine when sex takes place . |
| 56 | It is the females who nearly always are the active hunters . |
| 57 | But , as already suggested , if it is the police who are doing the tapping what is the prospect of effective steps to stop it ? |
| 58 | It is the police who have to decide whether the unruly pickets or drug users they pick up are prosecuted ; and if the police took every offender to court the legal system would not be able to cope . |
| 59 | It is the police who investigate complaints , gather evidence , interrogate suspects and , at the end of the investigation , place their conclusions before a legal official . |
| 60 | And it is the auditors who should be most worried by the UITF statement and Professor Tweedie 's warning . |