Example sentences of "[noun sg] that it be [pron] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It flashed through my mind that it was someone who was allowed out in the grounds of Bourani and down at Moutsa only on pain of keeping herself concealed . |
| 2 | One former employee at Church House recalls occasions when he has intervened in staffing decisions more properly the sphere of General Synod on the basis that it is he who writes the cheques . |
| 3 | What I like about them and where I think their strengths are is that they do put science , the physical sciences , in that bracket of activity which is fun , excitement and leisure and enjoyment and that it moves away from the notion that it 's something you do on a wet Friday afternoon at school . |
| 4 | What I like about them and where I think their strengths are is that they do put science , the physical sciences , in that bracket of activity which is fun , excitement and leisure and enjoyment and that it moves away from the notion that it 's something you do on a wet Friday afternoon at school . |
| 5 | Shinwell believed to his dying day that it was he who had been the intended target of French 's bullet . |
| 6 | ‘ it was an unusual opportunity , to put it at its lowest , and that it is to be inferred from the evidence that it was one which was of particular interest to the Perot family . |
| 7 | What was more , Fox was satisfied that the presence of Alfred 's fresh prints on the damaged articles was convincing evidence that it was he who had carried out the destruction . |
| 8 | These older Shetlanders seemed to create the incomers ' links to the community , in the sense that it was they who helped to forge the reputations attributed to these incomers . |
| 9 | In Illich 's view , such treatment ‘ is but a device to convince those who are sick and tired of society that it is they who are ill , impotent and in need of repair ’ . |
| 10 | Joanna 's startled face jolted Isabel into the realisation that it was she who had spoken , not the reeve . |
| 11 | I could n't bear the thought that it was you he loved . |
| 12 | The trust is invalid on several counts : no property has been bequeathed to the curator so the principle of benefit is infringed ; if the curator had been validly appointed , which he has not , then he would be able to exercise some control over the foster-child 's use of the land ; but even then , since he would not be owner , it would be a problem that it was he who was charged with the trust for distributing shares in the income from the land . |
| 13 | There was no proof that it was he who had taken the necklace . |
| 14 | Although it was Dorothy who had come to interview the officials at PopCon ( ’ an Intergovernmental Agency for Fundamental Research into the Worldwide Problems of Population Stabilisation' ) , she kept getting the impression that it was they who were interrogating her . |
| 15 | Of course , ’ he added with a twisted smile , ‘ it was n't until your last day in the office that I realised you were under the impression that it was I who 'd had the affair with Elise . ’ |