Example sentences of "[noun sg] it be [art] [noun] who " in BNC.
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| 1 | When it was announced by the State Department on 17 October that military equipment , including light bombers , was being supplied for the armed forces both of France and of the Associated States , it was a distinction without a difference because in practice it was the French who were in control : even if Bao Dai was insistent that the French officers who were to train the soldiers of the Vietnamese national army should be responsible directly to him rather than to the French High Command . |
| 2 | If in Cosi it is the women who are put upon , then in L'Italiana in Algeri it is the eponymous heroine who wears the trousers — or so , at least , it ought to be . |
| 3 | In the younger group it is the Whites who have a much higher arrest rate than Blacks — 13.3 per cent . |
| 4 | In the organization of enrolment it is the headteacher who principally has to make decisions along which governors are guided . |
| 5 | In Funny Business it 's a clown who 's at the centre of the fun . |
| 6 | It was all very laudable wanting to bring culture to the masses , but if the masses chose to turn their backs on the enterprise it was the shareholders who stood to lose . |
| 7 | At the christening it is the parents who have felt the need for religious involvement in the naming ceremony ; at the burial it is mainly the bereaved who are concerned and at the wedding it is the parties themselves who seek the ministrations of a church . |
| 8 | In the case of children 's behaviour it is the parents who have to face the problems and so ultimately it is the parents who have to solve them . |
| 9 | And on this particular occasion it was a man who was engaged t on Admiralty work of a very er significant nature . |
| 10 | When the bundle of clothes hit the ground it was the dog who realised first that there was something inside , also broken and crumpled , and after the dog came the children , who revolved round the heap , fascinated , until one noticed the blood and began to scream , and adults arrived to remove them from whatever it was that lay on the concrete . |
| 11 | In this Government it is the Ministers who decide on policy , not the consultants . |
| 12 | Whereas in Williams 's view country house poems tend to obscure labour , in this poem it is the owners who are almost unseen . |
| 13 | The police , most of whom I knew , because of the great help they had given us when we had been burgled a couple of years earlier , said no , they did n't have the key , and in any case it was the council who must be approached . |
| 14 | In that case it was the administrator who was removed . |
| 15 | But after a topsy-turvy match at Midgley Park it was the Swifts who booked their place in the second round , running out winners . |
| 16 | In this division or career framework it is the Rowdies who are the typical football hooligans . |
| 17 | But of course it is the individual who attracts the photographer in the first place ( and in this instance we know the reverse to be true ) , and Yass is obviously keen to sharpen our awareness of the personal face-to-face aspect of these relationships . |
| 18 | ‘ When we got married for instance , I had to give up teaching because there was a regulation which said husbands and wives could n't both teach and of course it was the wives who left . ’ |
| 19 | If we 're talking about the same phone call , the reason it was a woman who spoke to you was that we were both travelling in my car at the time — and I was driving . |
| 20 | The present sixty , sixty five regime is discriminating against men , but when in reality it is the women who are in the much inferior position . |
| 21 | Naturally , there are asymmetries : in the waking reality it is the mother who must be silent , not the baby . |
| 22 | A beekeeper himself with 10 hives in the manse garden it was the Dean who dreamed up the idea of a honey service four years ago . |
| 23 | It is they who govern , but in the last analysis it is the people who rule themselves . |
| 24 | In the end it was the woman who gave ground and the boy who stayed . |
| 25 | Civil servants might , though in the end it was the politicians who decided , which was why he had declined the highest office with both Nato and the International Monetary Fund . |
| 26 | ‘ Yes , as usual no doubt it 's the woman who 's left to take care of things . |
| 27 | Here at ZZAP ! we 're very good at spotting ripped-off software , but should one slip through the net it 's the sender who 'd be in trouble — this could mean a hefty fine and possible imprisonment if you 're lucky , or being made to eat your own entrails if I catch you before the software company ! |
| 28 | The Orynthia lived on , despite it all — off to Honduras again in March , 1840 , where this time it was the cook who ended up in prison : William Rhodes took her out to Fernando Po , Ascension and India in 1841 , and William Cox was master again on a voyage to the Cape and Burma in 1843 , in which year he sold his half-share to Henry Johnson , a City merchant . |
| 29 | A manual describing the art was written in Holland in 1674 , and at that time it was the Dutch who produced the best work . |
| 30 | This time it was the others who laughed . |