Example sentences of "be [pos pn] [noun] that [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may not be your decision that brings it to an end , it may be someone else 's or beyond anyone 's power to decide . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's my eyesight that gets me , I ca n't read , my eyes start to water . |
| 3 | It 's their enthusiasm that inspires me . |
| 4 | It 's their motion that keeps them apart ? |
| 5 | She came to St Bartholomew 's Hospital to be operated on , but it 's her mind that interests me . |
| 6 | It 's his eyesight that concerns me . |
| 7 | It is his word that makes us aware of our condition . |
| 8 | It is his word that makes us aware that Jesus Christ came and died for us , that God loves us . |
| 9 | It 's your head that needs them , not your legs . ’ |
| 10 | LINK is your magazine and it 's your contributions that make it successful . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's your casualness that gives you away , ’ he said . |
| 12 | It 's your thinking that got you into this place ! ’ |
| 13 | But all of these , he realizes , degrade the poor : ‘ It is your gaze that violates them , your sense of outrage that outrages them ’ ; and ‘ it ( is ) compassion like mine , so strenuously maintained , that denies humanity to many . ’ |
| 14 | As we have seen , it is our rationality that enables us also to appreciate the personal advantages we would derive from a social contract that promotes self-denial and individual rights . |
| 15 | ‘ I guess it was my name that alerted them ’ , said McIntosh whose grandfather emigrated from Edinburgh to New Zealand after the war . |
| 16 | ALTHOUGH MANY former RAF Chedburgh , Suffolk , personnel have had cause to return to their old Station , at least 398 have had that choice denied them — although it was their sacrifice that made their colleague 's choice possible . |
| 17 | It was their behaviour that defined them as nice or nasty , as forgiving or unforgiving , envious or the reverse . |
| 18 | ‘ It was their manner that told me they had to be taken seriously . |
| 19 | I think it was her smell that got me started … like the braided loaves fresh from the baker 's oven . |
| 20 | ‘ Well … it was her feet that gave her away . ’ |
| 21 | But it was her eyes that startled me . |
| 22 | On the death of her father in 1866 she suffered physical and mental breakdown , confiding in a letter that it was her religion that held her up . |
| 23 | It was her face that did it . |
| 24 | It was her face that did it . |
| 25 | Eva claims it was her uniform that got her noticed . |
| 26 | Moreover , it was her nakedness that exerted its mysterious power over the bodies of men . ’ |
| 27 | What if it was her feebleness that made him impatient ? |
| 28 | And I bet it was his hair that put them off . |
| 29 | Deane scored for Leeds , and , it could be argued he scored for Tottenham as well cos I think it was his foot that deflected it past Beaney . |
| 30 | It was his tone that got me . |