Example sentences of "it is [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It is difficult to research as it is behaviour which takes place in a domestic setting involving powerless people . |
| 32 | Thus it is Pippin who looks up at the sun and the banners and offers comfort to Beregond , and Merry who never loses heart when even Théoden appears prey to ‘ horror and doubt ’ . |
| 33 | ‘ It is prosperity which creates the technology that can keep the earth healthy . ’ |
| 34 | ‘ It is money which belonged to my father . |
| 35 | In the older generation , incidentally , it is women whose Gullah is more pronounced , probably because women were less likely than men to leave the island in order to trade their produce . |
| 36 | It is women who have to go alone ; whose lovers do not have the patience to wait at home and pray for them . |
| 37 | Predictably , it is women who can place Izzat most easily at risk . |
| 38 | DEEP THINKERS Forward planning O'Donovan also offers the simple but profound thought that it is women who will be giving birth to the next generation of Rugby League players . |
| 39 | The general division of labour in peasant and pastoral households is significant — it is women who frequently collect water , fuel , forest litter and fodder , and indeed in some societies do most of the agricultural work as well , except ploughing ( as , for example , in parts of South Asia ) . |
| 40 | If the woman does not choose to fulfil this part of the process , then the connection will not hold ; by and large it is women who create the form of the relationship . |
| 41 | It is women who are the regular mail order users . |
| 42 | There is wide agreement that , in such households , it is women who take the main share of responsibility . |
| 43 | One group of people consider fishing men 's work and weaving women 's , while two hundred miles away it is women who fish and men who weave . |
| 44 | But it is women who are more likely to buy things . |
| 45 | The corollary of this is that it is women who are expected to undertake the reproduction of labour-power within the family , whether they also have waged jobs or not . |
| 46 | It is women who bear the brunt of high-rise flats , estates with no open play spaces , inadequate laundry facilities , noise , vandalism and bad access to shops and transport . |
| 47 | For instance , if clitorectomy often known as female circumcision — is a ‘ moral ’ requirement to serve male interests , it is nevertheless women who carry out , maintain and insist upon the practice , and it is women who express their moral offence if it is not carried out . |
| 48 | The health conditions of the vast majority of Salvadoreans can only be described as critical and it is women who must bear the brunt of caring for the ill . |
| 49 | But it still obscures the fact that it is women who are raped . |
| 50 | Over four fifths , that 's two million , of these w of those who the wages c wages are protected by the Wages Councils are women and as there would seem no point in abolition unless the wages were gon na fall , then it is women who will suffer disproportionately , along with another vulnerable group , single parents . |
| 51 | The argument goes that it is women who are in fact doing all the reproducing of labour power and servicing other people 's escapes . |
| 52 | It is women who end up imprisoned in their own homes by the threat of racial and sexual violence on housing estates and the streets . |
| 53 | It is women who are not thought to be assertive . |
| 54 | It is girls who tend to stay at school longer and in the secondary cycle outnumber boys ( making up 52 per cent of total enrolment in 1985 ) . |
| 55 | Personally I do n't think it is traditions which are weighing them down but the fact that they have no support at home . |
| 56 | But it is Weede who really makes this worth hearing , keeping his balance with ease between sympathy and schmaltz . |
| 57 | She argues that it is families who see each other frequently where one finds most practical support being given , because frequent contact affords the opportunity for pressure to be put upon individuals to ‘ keep up their kinship obligations ’ ( Bott , 1957 , p. 133 ) . |
| 58 | Moreover , despite the importance of professional social care , it is families who still play the major part in meeting the social , emotional and general physical needs of the dependent old . |
| 59 | Just as Wernicke 's aphasia is in some sense the opposite of Broca 's aphasia , so transcortical aphasia is in some sense the opposite of conduction aphasia , because in transcortical aphasia it is repetition which is the best -preserved of the patient 's linguistic abilities , with the patient being extremely poor at understanding speech . |
| 60 | This , however , has been felt to be rather ironical since , although he is critical of idealism and maintains a formal commitment to empirical rationalism , it is Hobhouse who in fact calls for the greater degree of state intervention . |