Example sentences of "it is the [noun] which " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is the law which prevails over every other form of law , and it is not for the court to say that a parliamentary enactment , the highest law in this country , is illegal . |
| 2 | It is the occasion which determines what figurations of language are appropriate to it , and no one poetic occasion duplicates any other . |
| 3 | It is the document which can be viewed by our existing and prospective clients to enable them to gain an insight into our quality system . |
| 4 | And it is the document which the quality auditors will initially use to check that the quality system exists , is operating and is fit for the purpose . |
| 5 | Not exactly subtle , considering the case 's complexity , but it is the verdict which no doubt still lingers in people 's minds months after the convictions were quashed . |
| 6 | In my view , the requirement at issue as it is worded does not in itself rule this out : it is the vessel which has to be operated from within the United Kingdom and it is its use , that is to say the operations of the vessel , which must be directed and controlled from the United Kingdom ; this does not prevent the onshore unit responsible for the actual management of the vessel ( whether it be in the form of a subsidiary , a branch , an agency or an administrative unit ) from being subject to the general control of the natural or legal person who set it up . |
| 7 | ( 1 ) A change in the content of the curriculum is justified because it is the content which is intrinsically worth while and any improvement in content is ipso facto an improvement in education ; i.e. we change subject content for its own sake . |
| 8 | What Sylvia had accomplished while doing her homework was to convince her subconscious mind that she was quite capable of entering an enclosed space without fear ; and since it is the subconscious which is responsible for sending out all those panic signals — the racing heart , the sweating palms , the feelings of nausea and so on — those symptoms did not appear . |
| 9 | Indeed the tenacity of Roman concrete and mortar was so great that today , in the ruined buildings of the Empire , it can be seen that it is the stone which has fractured not the material which binds it . |
| 10 | It is the rising which has become known as ‘ the Peasants ’ Revolt' without any further qualification and has been seen as the most serious social revolt which occurred in medieval England . |
| 11 | It is the CET which distinguishes a CU from a free-trade area . |
| 12 | It is the West which is in trouble . |
| 13 | In Germany , as in America , the considerable involvement of federal grants in the financing of the Länder , together with the fact that it is the Union which decides the bulk of taxes , allow for deep central influence on Länder policy making . |
| 14 | In plate interiors horizontal plate movements play a less direct role in creating landforms and it is the processes which generate the broad warping and vertical movements of the crust , that is , the mechanisms of epeirogeny , that are of most concern . |
| 15 | The Transport and General Workers ' Union also contains about 11000 farm workers in its agricultural section , but the majority of these are located in Scotland and it is the NUAAW which is generally regarded as the industrial union for farm workers in England and Wales . |
| 16 | This seems mild enough compared to the everyday manipulation of today 's multi-track techniques ; but it is the exception which proves the rule . |
| 17 | For one thing , it is misleading to quote any definite power for a telescope , because it is the eyepiece which determines the magnification . |
| 18 | The finished product ( or parts of it ) can be printed out either dot matrix , inkjet or laser printer and it is the output which lets this program down . |
| 19 | The rhetoric was always more extreme than the practice but it is the rhetoric which has persisted . |
| 20 | Reading between the lines it becomes clear that it is the address which was recorded , in a studio re-creation to cash in on the President 's assassination . |
| 21 | In contrast , it seems that in [ 14 ] above it is the reformulation which facilitates the hearer 's understanding of the original . |
| 22 | It is the state which properly exercises the use of force in order to maintain social control , whereas it is in civil society — the family , school , work-place , church , and other non-state institutions — that hegemony operates . |
| 23 | It is the state which provides the opportunity to practise in a monopolistic or restrictive fashion and it is the legal profession which reinforces the existing social order . |
| 24 | If it first encounters P , it can not get through at all , since it is the state which is extinguished by P , . |
| 25 | In many current studies , it is the state which is abstracted as the complementary prime mover in the development or new collective forms or consumption ( e.g. Castells 1977 ) , and largely functionalist arguments are derived to indicate how any changes which appear to have occurred can always be found to have accorded with the ‘ interests ’ of these two forces , capital and the state , which are usually in harmony as ‘ state monopoly capitalism ’ and always in direct conflict with the interests of the population as a whole . |
| 26 | This is because it is only the school and its daily managers who can assess what it can afford — and what it has to afford — to do in terms of staff time and money and because it is the school which has , in the end , to initiate any assessment of the type of community assistance which will provide its partners with the benefits they seek . |
| 27 | Under London Stock Exchange rules , it is the company which is required to notify the Exchange and accordingly this will be an important change in practice . |
| 28 | ‘ In the west it is the prices which are hard to accept and in the east people are unhappy about unemployment . |
| 29 | While we absorb about the same amount of protein as fat , it is the fat which causes the biggest problem to the figure-conscious , since it stores more efficiently , becoming even harder to shift . |
| 30 | It is the affinities which these mosaics share with the three other pavements in this group which are of immediate interest , hoc ever : these represent the main substantial affinities . |