Example sentences of "it be the [noun] who " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a long pause , Claire said , ‘ Would it be the Gardai who opened them … ? ’ |
| 2 | Should n't it be the people who have as their driving force the desire to reveal truths about human life ? |
| 3 | History is taught as if the industrial revolution , the most significant event since the development of agriculture , just happened , simply by the outworking of blind economic forces ; and as if the only people to be consciously aware of it were the aesthetes who reacted against its artifacts , or who , like Karl Marx , sought to analyse those forces and to predict their course . |
| 4 | It 's the individual who finds out how to paint . |
| 5 | We are told it 's The Smiths who remain qualified to compete in the independent charts despite whatever gigantic deals may take place in the background . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's the players who have suffered , but now there are signs that things are on the mend . ’ |
| 7 | It 's the players who will suffer because of this , not just this week but for years to come . |
| 8 | in the audience , be careful cos you 're going do n't be under any illusion when your region , your job , or your elected position is under threat , it 's human nature to protect your back and when this happens , it 's the members who end up being the casualties . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's the females who hunt in a pack . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's the government who looks good , ’ says Gary Smith , 23 , who joined the Enterprise Allowance first in Bradford , then in London . |
| 11 | and trying to get to socialism but it 's , it 's the government who are doing the work . |
| 12 | Sometimes it 's the man who goes off sex . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's the man who sells drinks , ’ said IB4E . |
| 14 | It says it 's the devil who finds work for idle hands . |
| 15 | No , it 's the ones who bring them in , who brought them in in the first place — ’ |
| 16 | Now , as often as not , it 's the women who are saying , ‘ Yes , we 'll have a family — when the time is right . ’ |
| 17 | It is conventional wisdom among advice agencies , local authorities and fuel boards that it 's the women who pick up the tab for men 's mismanagement . |
| 18 | English is the common language of the playground ; it 's the grown-ups who are speaking their national language . |
| 19 | Yes , but it seems like it 's the mothers who are directing the little boys to think big and directing the little girls to think small . |
| 20 | Does n't matter whether it 's the er whether it 's the person who does the short list or whether it 's the Home Secretary himself or whether it 's the other members of the authorities such as the Noble Lord , Lord MacIntosh would prefer in his amendment . |
| 21 | In the West , it 's the industrialists who are targets . |
| 22 | In the end , the analysis is gon na occur , it 's the patient who , who really does n't analyze their ego comes to grips with the unconscious . |
| 23 | As for table tennis , it 's the Chinese who 've dominated . |
| 24 | We think it 's the Americans who 've just arrived . |
| 25 | We think it 's the Americans who 've just arrived . |
| 26 | A year ago , it was the miners who went on strike , today it 's the farmers who can wait no more . |
| 27 | And if the solicitor got it wrong it 's the executor who takes the blame . |
| 28 | It slows the game down so much when you have people killing the ball , but it 's not the fault of the players , it 's the referees who allow it ’ . |
| 29 | Well I do n't know , ha ha have n't you got a position where er as , as we began to , to see last week , there is this radicalization coming in but the , the er i i it 's the peasants who 've moved to the left of the Party , you 're right , that they are inappropriate to this very moderate policy of rent reduction erm a tax on collaborators land is being redistributed and is n't saying right we , i i in the same way that , that Mao was identifying the problem in in , either you , you follow the masses or you , you lead them but , but thereof we are behind them and a sense the Party has got ta recognize that , it 's got ta catch up with the masses and is n't that first paragraph saying look this is the way you should be going , that there are peasants who are redistributing the land and land reform is in effect taking place and that 's what we want to see ? |
| 30 | ‘ Yes , as usual no doubt it 's the woman who 's left to take care of things . |