Example sentences of "it [be] which [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | James expressed the negative side when he described it as ‘ the theory which denies that there can be in a sensation any element of actual locality , any tone as it were which cries to us immediately and without further ado , ‘ I am here ’ or ‘ I am there ’ ’ . |
| 2 | Stress it is which poisons the innocent spangles of daisies , dissonantly warps the song of the idiot birds or leers gibberingly over the useless privet . |
| 3 | But one can still ask what part of our being it is which makes the judgement as to where the authority lies . |
| 4 | In the case of Irish union the pre-existing parliaments are nowhere expressly abolished ; on the other hand , it is nowhere stated , or implied of necessity , in any of the union legislation , that one of the pre-existing parliaments was continued under a new style and , indeed , if this view were to be adopted , one is left with the question as to which of the two pre-existing parliaments it is which has survived . |
| 5 | ‘ The wrapping 's second-hand , ’ Vitor continued , looking at the hessian , ‘ and if some guy was being super-efficient he could have decided that whatever it was which had been dumped on the road it should be tidied away . ’ |
| 6 | With him , she felt none of the seething intoxication of love or lust or whatever it was which called her to Cameron . |
| 7 | I was n't partisan politically but I did think that choice was important , whether it was which brand you chose or which person you decided to deride . |