Example sentences of "it be [noun] which " in BNC.

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31 In 1983 gas , coal and nuclear power accounted for 16% , 9% and 1% respectively of energy demand and it is gas which is establishing itself as the most significant oil alternative .
32 It is conduct which in these circumstances falls to be dealt with in the trial itself by judicial control upon admissibility of evidence , the judicial power to direct a verdict of not guilty , usually at the close of the prosecution 's case , or by the jury taking account of it in evaluating the evidence before them .
33 It is the projected activities , the group under E and F , which will concern us in this section , as we shall see that it is projection which protects the participants .
34 However , it is patterns which matter : 87% of the residents of Northern Tyneside who work , work in the area ; 77% of the area 's work force lives in the area .
35 Not everyone understands it is HC which makes people behave strangely .
36 But it is bait which hit back with bullets .
37 However , it hardly seems satisfactory to say that it is conscience which tells us that conscience should be at the controls , for presumably self love would say the same of itself if given its head .
38 Producing shame , anger , and futility , it is masturbation which , for Lawrence , constitutes the most pernicious evasion of otherness , becoming ‘ perhaps the deepest and most dangerous cancer of our civilization ’ , and ‘ certainly the most dangerous sexual vice that a society can be afflicted with , in the long run ’ ( ‘ Pornography ’ , 3 17 ) .
39 Thus he expresses the realisation that in the still mourning is a moving power and the lyric ends with another juxtaposition , this time of two positive certainties , of the reality of the vision longed for , and of the recognition that the power to realise it is love which on man 's part essentially expresses its dynamic nature by means of patience , " the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting " .
40 It is mistake which causes problems .
41 ‘ I do not know if you are so frank with me because you do not care how I react , or if it is honesty which prompts you .
42 The Marxist feminists argue that it is capital which gains the benefit from this exploitative form of labour , since it means that they can pay these women 's husbands lower wages than would be the case if male workers had to buy these services , for instance meals in cafes , laundries for clothes-washing , and nannies for their children .
43 Mostly it is services which are traded , but goods can be used as well , ’ says Mary Ringland , from the One World Centre in Belfast .
44 He holds the romantic belief that only the wordless language of music is complete and it is music which has always helped him to live and to write .
45 It is not the general who must go , his aides say , it is Tayif which must change .
46 In choosing systems of educating deaf children with signs , it is attitude which has determined the choice .
47 Yet it is structure which gives to any undertaking its distinctive shape and identity .
48 For Callinicos it is October which made the vision of social transformation ‘ concrete ’ .
49 The international landscape with which we began 1989 — the old , familiar structures of the two alliances , the Anglo-American special relationship , the European Community 's halting progress toward greater unity , and the newer but also beginning to be familiar element of reform in the Soviet Union — is being transformed , and it is Germany which is leading that transformation .
50 In this journey , in which we are all engaged , it is photography which has allowed him to achieve something for the first time without struggling — given him a means of craft and communication which feels right and matches his natural capacities as well as being able to respond to his intuition .
51 In this journey , in which we are all engaged , it is photography which has allowed him to achieve something for the first time without struggling — given him a means of craft and communication which feels right and matches his natural capacities as well as being able to respond to his intuition .
52 And it is photography which Messager uses to divert our attention from the sweet nostalgia of an imagined past .
53 He believes that of the three , research , policy and practice , it is practice which has the greatest potential to achieve change , both positively and negatively , and that the researcher is dependent upon the practitioner , even where the policy maker defines the research brief .
54 However , it is Laugharne which is most synonymous with Wales ' most famous 20th century poet and writer , where he simply ‘ stepped off the bus one day and forgot to get on again ’ in the spring of 1938 .
55 Of those factors relating to the individual ( abilities , experience , goals ) it is goals which are most effective in trying to predict a person 's performance at work .
56 Yet it is poverty which drives these poor worlders to hew their saplings .
57 And it is HarperCollins which is publishing the Collins Cobuild Concordance Samplers .
58 While accommodation was dominant in imitation , it is assimilation which dominates in play , as in the classic example of a stick used as a hobby horse ( Gombrich 1963 ) .
59 Indeed , the very concrete physicality of objects might lead us to expect quite the opposite conclusion , which is that it is language which organizes the deep unconscious , while objects as visible images are a relatively superficial phenomenon .
60 This idea is at odds with the Saussurean principle that it is language which is primary , and that far from preceding language , meaning is an effect produced by language .
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