Example sentences of "[that] it be [noun] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Human behaviour tends to be reshaped very quickly with this method … and usually we find that it 's dad who ends up parting with most money ! |
| 2 | I feel that it 's time we made a commitment . |
| 3 | Being told when you have just turned fifty that it 's time you retired does rather hurt . |
| 4 | That it 's time you stopped living in the past and started moving into the present . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But did we not read in St. John that it is Jesus who makes the Father known and discloses to us his nature ( John I 18 , 3:13 etc . ) |
| 7 | Despite Sartre 's reiteration that it is man who makes it , history increasingly assumes its own ontological status in the Critiques . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Taking an existentialist approach , he says that it is God who delivers us into freedom , which is not something which we can accomplish for ourselves . |
| 13 | Both agree that it is theories which do the job of explanation , but disagree on precisely how it achieves this and , as a result , on the nature of theory itself . |
| 14 | There may be , too , a sotto voce challenge to the received wisdom that it is people who cause desertification . |
| 15 | Does he agree that it is time we had a real clampdown on the possession of firearms throughout society , remembering that the problem will not be cured unless the Home Office takes strenuous action in relation to the legal as well as the illegal holding of firearms ? |
| 16 | She may appear to become quite self= centred , and those who have been doing all they can to help her may become exasperated and tempted to hint that it is time she tried to ‘ pull herself together ’ , for by then they too will be feeling the strain . |
| 17 | Yesterday we discovered that it is Portugal which dictates the pace now . |
| 18 | The same month , a United Nations commission , set up as part of the peace agreement , said that it was d'Aubuisson who had arranged the murder of Archbishop Oscar Romero in 1980 . |
| 19 | It would seem that it was Hazelden who sold to the planners at MEHQ the idea of delivering a final knock-out blow to the two main German supply ports , Tobruk and Benghazi . |
| 20 | It is a curious joke of history that it was Stalin who gave Lithuania its capital city ( between the wars it was in Poland ) , and Tito who , in order to weaken great-Serbian chauvinism , created a much larger Croatia with a much larger Serbian minority . |
| 21 | There is some evidence that it was Snowden who suggested the formula of the ‘ doctor 's mandate ’ , at a Cabinet meeting on 5 October , under which the component parts of the National Government were each to issue their own manifestos , with a separate personal appeal from the Prime Minister , According to Neville Chamberlain , ‘ Snowden … produced the suggestion that the Prime Minister should issue his own manifesto asking for a free hand [ i.e. on tariffs ] and the two Party leaders should each issue their own programmes and to our astonishment this was at once accepted by the Liberals , ' Amery , who perhaps got the information from Chamberlain , wrote in his diary on 6 October , ‘ Apparently when the deadlock seemed most complete Snowden suggested that the PM should issue his own manifesto , each of the other party leaders issuing theirs . ' |
| 22 | Keynes has shown that he and his brothers , six of them according to Florence of Worcester , appear in the witness lists of royal charters for some time before 1006 ; but it was in 1007 that Eadric received his ealdormanry , and Florence says that it was Eadric who had Ælfhelm murdered and the king who blinded his sons . |
| 23 | " And you might as well know that it was Paul who shot the fawn last night too , not me . " |
| 24 | In his defence , the defendant claimed that it was T who had approached him and that he had not initiated the agreement . |
| 25 | Some heads of department believed that the self-appraisal report was the product of departmental discussion , but that it was discussion which had taken place over the last few years rather than during the time specifically set aside for the self-appraisal . |
| 26 | Only then did it occur to me that , of course , my witticism would not be easily appreciated by someone who was not aware that it was gypsies who had passed by . |
| 27 | The answer is ‘ yes ’ : a recent article , drawing on Eusebius ' Life of Constantine , seems to show without doubt that it was Constantine who introduced this law : Eusebius describes measures implemented by Constantine which can only be understood as referring to this law . |
| 28 | Recall that it was three-year-olds who had difficulty with Flavell 's appearance-versus-reality problems ; and indeed further experiments have shown that there is a strong statistical correlation between performance on the appearance-reality and on the false belief task . |
| 29 | Despite warnings , Mrs Thatcher stressed her leadership role in Europe , saying that it was Britain which had put up an alternative scheme to the Delors plan and had taken the initiative over the idea of associate EC status for East Germany . |
| 30 | Despite warnings , Mrs Thatcher stressed her leadership role in Europe , saying that it was Britain which had put up an alternative scheme to the Delors plan and had taken the initiative over the idea of associate EC status for East Germany . |