Example sentences of "[noun sg] it be [art] [noun pl] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 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 | For Melossi it 's the discourses which count : |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In this Government it is the Ministers who decide on policy , not the consultants . |
| 9 | Whereas in Williams 's view country house poems tend to obscure labour , in this poem it is the owners who are almost unseen . |
| 10 | And for the most part it is the vocals which supply the important shades of light and dark on ‘ Nevermind ’ , winding their way in and out of the psyched guitar and flowing backline . |
| 11 | But after a topsy-turvy match at Midgley Park it was the Swifts who booked their place in the second round , running out winners . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 13 | It 's inserted into the poem in two ways : first the devils are identified with the pagan gods — they are introduced , indeed , with a great fanfare in the first book and given all sorts of classical erm and oriental names , and Milton explains to us that of course it was the devils themselves who managed to disperse this tradition that that 's who they really were ; and second , and though less central and less impressive in its poetic results , is perhaps the second device which is more interesting when we think of the poem in terms of Milton 's personal involvement . |
| 14 | ‘ In the west it is the prices which are hard to accept and in the east people are unhappy about unemployment . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Government sources said , however , that in the end it was the conditions which would eventually determine timing of British participation . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | This time it was the others who laughed . |
| 19 | In the street it was the men who roused him by their flesh and their manly , vigorous movement … |