Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [pers pn] be [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course it was England which gave cricket toAustralia . |
| 2 | When they cross a region of space–time it is space–time itself that vibrates . |
| 3 | But I think after three glasses of wine it 's time I went home . ’ |
| 4 | Well cos at er , there were n't enough tide to take it away , I mean you ta you get clay well that 's , that 's solid and the amount of stuff I was dredge they use and use it , now we 're not the only ones got it , they got people from Harwich , people from Felixstowe , they were all dumping out there . |
| 5 | In times of trouble it is children who suffer most — whether through war or the daily grind of poverty . |
| 6 | Whereas your letters indicate that loyal subjects who have previously supported the Monarchy now feel that mistakes need to be acknowledged and if Her Majesty is not to be seen as hopelessly out of touch and out of date it is time she stood up and publicly said sorry . |
| 7 | She stopped abruptly , suddenly afraid to say the words aloud in case they were words he would n't want to hear . |
| 8 | ‘ Yes ? ’ she answered , her voice guarded in case it was Jason who was calling . |
| 9 | In part it was geography which made this possible . |
| 10 | ‘ They have been treated , therefore , as persons in a different situation from mere contractors for then they would have been exempt , but in truth they are purchasers who have acquired an interest not in a mere chattel , but in a subject of a permanent nature … ’ |
| 11 | Hess has protected them , although in theory they are people he should not even know . |
| 12 | In mine it is Philonous who finally says , ‘ All right ’ ( though note that it is followed by ‘ but ’ ) . |
| 13 | Things happened as they must have happened , only in fact it was Rufus who had picked her up and brought her back to Wyvis Hall . |
| 14 | But in fact it was Flodden which was a significant break in the pattern of cold rather than hot war with England , and after it the Scots simply reverted to their usual distant hostility . |
| 15 | A further pandering to the star would seem to have come in the change of title to Alfredo Alfredo , repeating the name of Dustin 's character , but in fact it was Germi who was not happy with the original title , which sounded as if the film were a sequel to his big international hit of 1961 , Divorce Italian Style . |
| 16 | When the negotiations began at Dalat it was Giap who assumed the principal role on the Vietnamese side and while , as communists , they might have accepted a smaller but communist state that could conceivably have been free of the French , it was as nationalists that the Vietminh argued their case for indissoluble national unity . |
| 17 | Later in the girls ’ see-sawing search for stardom it was Dannii who gained the upper hand when she landed the plum job singing and dancing in Australia 's mega popular Young Talent Time . |