Example sentences of "it [be] [adj] which " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's typical Which , Problems with Wills I think it was called and then it came in the paper as Where There 's a Will there 's a Bill . |
| 2 | It 's clear which way the wind blows today . |
| 3 | I found it hard to find Mill 's arguments for this , although he seems to be , he seems to be arguing the point over several pages , but erm we get pretty much rhetorical claims and evidence and so he wants us to consider those states which have been ruled by despots with those contemporary states which have been democracies England versus Spain say and he thinks it 's obvious which type of system we ought to prefer . |
| 4 | Because Linnaeus worked in western Europe , it tends to be the European form which is seen as typical in this sense ; and of course it is accidental which species in a group happens to be first described and hence seen as typical . |
| 5 | It is uncertain which of these two types of life-history is primitive . |
| 6 | Since it is difficult to predict how rainfall will alter , it is uncertain which countries will benefit and which will suffer . |
| 7 | Numerically the Jamaicans form the majority of the Caribbean community in most parts of London as well as other large centres ; yet even where they do not , it is Jamaican which provides a focus for the Creole of black youth . |
| 8 | On Hewitt 's account , it is Creole which carries the symbolic values of ethnicity and culture , for both its black and white speakers , while the " multi-racial vernacular " serves as a common community language , the " ordinary English " of the symbolic " Creole " / " ordinary English " dichotomy . |
| 9 | The fact is , however , that it is Anglo-Welsh which needs Palatine , to improve its position in the on-trade sector . |
| 10 | It is interesting to note that in the last analysis it is evil which is its own undoing . |
| 11 | Petrological analyses that have been carried out support the model to some extent , especially for the production of domestic pottery ; much of it is grass-tempered which Brown ( 1976 ) suggests represents an equal mixture of clay and horse manure . |
| 12 | While in 1990 it is clear which of these views is currently favoured in Rome , it is far from clear which will finally prevail . |
| 13 | To put it another way , goods are not appropriated unless it is clear which goods are appropriated . |
| 14 | It is light which is to be feared . |
| 15 | In some operations , such as the logical operations , add and multiplication of equal-length operands , it is irrelevant which operand is considered as the first . |
| 16 | It was Evil which we had fought , dark desperate evil . |
| 17 | In 1168 the Lusignans were nothing like as rich or powerful as the Counts of Angoulême , who ruled what was in effect an independent principality in the heart of Aquitaine , and yet it was Lusignan which seems to have been the storm centre of the revolt . |
| 18 | Although it was Church who originally proposed the use of ‘ pinches ’ and ‘ scoops ’ for measuring out the components of salt-sugar solutions for the purpose of oral rehydration , it was BRAC which adapted this method for use by the people of Bangladesh . |
| 19 | The three major airports in the Washington region were shut down until it was clear which one the plane was heading for . |
| 20 | It was clear which of them was the leader — broad-shouldered and heavily built , he lifted the knife menacingly and said , ‘ Where d' you keep it ? |