Example sentences of "but it [be] [noun] who " in BNC.
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| 31 | Nerves were edgy as both players dropped their service games to remain neck and neck at 5–5 , but it was Powell who was able to break Curtis at the crucial moment to regain the lead . |
| 32 | Roger Daltrey , all Shirley Temple curls and inflated biceps , swung his microphone dutifully and John Entwistle , in a tatty spiv 's blouson and shock of white hair , stood characteristically immobile , but it was Townshend who looked most chirpy . |
| 33 | Suffering fever , blindness and paralysis , they reached Lake Tanganyika in 1857 but it was Speke who eventually found Lake Victoria and realized that it was the reservoir which fed the great river . |
| 34 | Regular stars of the contest , Alan Crossthwaite and Tony Dance , both fought hard in the singles final , but it was Alan who was able to draw on the experience of his many double successes to come out on top . |
| 35 | But it was Wills who posed the most potent threat from the number one contender 's corner . |
| 36 | But it was Sarah who was left to take the flak . |
| 37 | But it was Cromwell who remained the arch repository of true evil in the world , Cromwell who had persecuted Ireland so greatly as to overshadow even Queen Elizabeth who , vilifying Mary Stuart , had put her to a martyr 's death . |
| 38 | The Woman leaned forward , her face eager , but it was Doyle who answered , dropping every word slowly so that it rippled like a stone in a pond . |
| 39 | In the second half , Alexander made two good chances for himself , but it was Bicester who deservedly equalised after a sustained spell of pressure when Mark Butler stabbed home a loose ball from a corner . |
| 40 | She also holed from 40 feet for a birdie at the short 17th , but it was Mason who preserved their lead . |
| 41 | But it was Lisabeth who got the mince for him . |
| 42 | But it was Vose who came through with a strong finish on the final circuit to claim second place , but he could not match Pearson 's strength on the hills . |
| 43 | We all thought that Trotsky could have run rings round him , but it was Stalin who survived to wreck the last few hopes of the Revolution and now to swallow up Eastern Europe . ’ |
| 44 | Since he first published his equations there has been a considerable literature developed which is devoted to expanding and refining this algebraic approach , but it was Bukharin who helped lay the foundation for this later work . |
| 45 | But it was Swindon who had all the chances . |
| 46 | were regular visitors at his home , but it was Busoni who became Petri 's mentor , and close friend . |
| 47 | Hamilton was at the heart of our defence that day and every one of them were heroes , but it was Hamilton who subdued Jimmy Trotter ( later the manager of Charlton ) who was Wednesday 's most dangerous forward . |
| 48 | Naturally , Richie Benaud and the home players took their full share of the credit , but it was Worrell who was hero number one . |
| 49 | But it was Leicester who took the lead in the first half , when Walsh headed home Philpotts cross . |
| 50 | But it was Keynes who possessed the greater mobility and fire-power and in the end he succeeded in shifting the argument on to theoretical grounds of his own choosing . |
| 51 | Wright continued to dazzle Ipswich in the second half but it was Campbell who completed a brilliant hat-trick . |
| 52 | But it was Beckett who invented bedsit absurdism , and occasionally went in for theatrical fourth-wall busting ( ‘ What is there to keep us here ? ’ |
| 53 | But it was Walsall who struck first through Charlie Newmark . |
| 54 | United shone first , but it was Derby who nearly scored first . |
| 55 | The twelfth-century popes were committed to maintaining their temporalities by the Reform movement which was preoccupied with temporal as well as moral rehabilitation , but it was Innocent who brought the Papal State nearer a political reality than it had been before . |
| 56 | But it was Hockney who attracted the publicity . |
| 57 | The advent of video confirmed the need for vigilance , but it was Williams who marshalled the evidence , and did so in cogent terms : |
| 58 | But it was people who were the Institution 's main asset and , linking progress afloat with that ashore Mr Vernon said : |
| 59 | But it was Raynor who told her things about the Castle she did not know ; how it had been built for the first High Queen of all , and how the ancient pure magic had been woven into its walls . |
| 60 | But it was Johnson who so nearly turned the game in the second period as Giants clawed their way back from an aggregate deficit of 16 points at 46-37 behind . |