Example sentences of "[unc] [noun] [pron] be [noun] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 In Nina 's stories it is Modigliani who was pushed off the bench , made to carry the beer in for a party .
2 To D'Arcy 's surprise it was Nadirpur who answered the entry phone , and again the man himself who came down to let them in .
3 In Mary 's house it was Kamala who had just died .
4 And er I 've already referred to a byproduct of over-provision that sites are then moved on to sh car showrooms and erm supermarkets which are needs which or demands which would probably not have justified the allocation of the land for industry in the first place but once the land is allocated to industry it seems to be thought that no harm would be done by allocating those to something else .
5 When the TUC expelled the electricians ' union it was Jordan who determinedly merged his engineering union with theirs , to the fury of the hard left .
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