Example sentences of "it be [adv] [noun pl] [Wh pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean I think I 'd like to comment on the way some of the discussion was going earlier , because although it 's true that it 's largely men who are seen as creating the problem , there are certainly large numbers of men in positions of authority in the university who are very concerned about it , and who have been led to re-examine their own behaviour , and who now comment on how uncomfortable and constrained they themselves feel . |
| 2 | And if you look at the departments erm in the City and the County , it 's largely men who are in the most powerful positions in terms of policy making . |
| 3 | ’ Losing Patients ’ explains how it 's mainly doctors who investigate doctors and how tribunals often take place in private . |
| 4 | Yet Zelda says , ‘ I do n't think it 's only women who want to change their partner . |
| 5 | It 's only amateurs who think he is n't . |
| 6 | When reviewers criticise software for not including such a facility the manufacturers often reply that it 's only journalists who are interested in this feature and that ‘ ordinary users ’ find a word count irrelevant . |
| 7 | We never had this problem years ago , I mean it 's only do-gooders who stopped the stuff we used to use years ago which was a reasonable price , who 's caused all these problems . |
| 8 | IN THE HOME , as in industry , it is overwhelmingly men who are the designers and repairers of machines , while women are the operators , expected to perform neatly and swiftly on typewriters , sewing machines and the rest , but not to understand how they work . |
| 9 | On the other hand , since it is mostly women who are responsible for running households and caring for dependent members of their families , it is not surprising that they are involved in helping each other in these practical ways , which lend themselves to being organized on a reciprocal basis . |
| 10 | For instance , if clitorectomy often known as female circumcision — is a ‘ moral ’ requirement to serve male interests , it is nevertheless women who carry out , maintain and insist upon the practice , and it is women who express their moral offence if it is not carried out . |
| 11 | ( It is paradoxically liberals who provide me with my argument for this when they argue that violent people can be ‘ understood ’ since they know no other language with which to express their inarticulate aggro . |
| 12 | It is also women who are the targets of the state 's sex stormtroopers , the Special Claims Control squads set up in the 1970s . |
| 13 | It is usually women who have left work , or moved from full time to part time employment , to care for a sick or frail elderly relative . |
| 14 | The vast majority of torturers are men simply because it is usually men who do military service , work as police or in concentration camps . |
| 15 | Fathers , because ultimately they control financial resources , may be the people who sign cheques or who authorize the payment of money to their children , but it is often women who mediate and negotiate such gifts and loans ( Morris , 1983 ) . |
| 16 | For these reasons , it is often women who provide the impetus for , and who are extremely active in , campaigns against dampness , for central heating , for improved playspaces and other necessary facilities . |
| 17 | It is often partners who have been most able to express their feelings , who are more likely to find new partners after a bereavement by investing feeling in a new relationship . |
| 18 | This strongly indicates that it is only males who have the status and power to provide , in the eyes of the relevant professionals , a credible challenge to the GP . |
| 19 | Please pray that the German people will buy , read and live by the Bible ( not that it is only Germans who need to do that ! ) . |
| 20 | For , among other reasons , Turks did not fit into a Zuwaya genealogy ; in theory , it is possible to find all forty shaikhs who appeared from time to time in Zuwaya stories in a genealogy ( although it is only anthropologists who are sufficiently naive to ask which men were the victims and where did they fit in lists of ancestors ) . |
| 21 | The political anger of ‘ On Civil Disobedience ’ and ‘ Walden ’ has burned itself out ; only one remark still rings with it , when Thoreau considers how the cherry disperses itself by having its stones swallowed : ‘ It is only princes who can afford to have their cherry puddings stoned , and so make their lives more completely luxurious and useless . ’ |
| 22 | It was mostly merchants who lived here , but notwithstanding their love of luxury , their houses were gloomy inside . |
| 23 | However , closer examination of how these deprivations were experienced within care-giving households suggests that it was often carers who bore the brunt of them , while trying to protect the living standards of the disabled or elderly person : |
| 24 | In both characters ' lives it was mainly men who had oppressed them , for Phyllisia it was her father who preferred her sister , Ruby . |
| 25 | Men were ‘ distinguished ’ at forty ; it was only women who turned into old bags . |
| 26 | But people decided it was only inferiors who ate alpaca meat . |
| 27 | It was only men who got in fights . |
| 28 | In the county gaols of Gloucester and Dorchester it was only debtors who were burdened with fees . |
| 29 | For years , most psychology was written as if human beings were unconscious ; in fact , it was only psychologists who were unconscious of consciousness . |