Example sentences of "that it [be] [adj] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 But you know the situation is it 's like Mum should not expect just because Claire and Steve go away that it 's immediate pack your bag it 's gon na co
2 Do n't you know , do n't you know that it 's true love you 're the one I 'm dreaming of .
3 Microsoft says that it is developing tools which will enable C and C++ developers building Windows-based applications to target the Macintosh .
4 It 's something both they and lesbians have always been blamed for , despite the now well-publicized fact that it is heterosexual men who commit by far the most assaults on boys , as well as girls .
5 It strikes me that it is young people who are most at risk and who have most to lose .
6 The point is that it is middle management who spoil and destroy this potential relationship .
7 The report does not insist that it is one man who has committed all the offences , but the implication is that is the case .
8 Talk about safer sex with your partner , or make it clear that it is safer sex you want by your actions .
9 Mr Powell , of course , has not been notably shy about declaring his belief that it is black people who are at the root of the decline and fall of the ‘ British way of life ’ .
10 This underlines the argument that it is poor children whose rearing is most likely to appear to agencies to be unsatisfactory . [ … ]
11 The social and political implications of Gandhi 's quest for Truth will also be dealt with in later chapters and for the moment we shall confine ourselves to such questions as how he goes about acquiring glimpses of absolute Truth and how he knows that it is absolute Truth he has actually caught a glimpse of .
12 Consequently , the consensus opinion is that it is nutrient deficiency which is the key factor in explaining the adverse effects of acidic deposition on a wide range of tree species in a variety of settings ( figure 4.18 ) .
13 This plausibly supports the view that it is relative deprivation which is causally related to crime , and that in conditions where unemployment is perceived as unjust and hopeless by comparison with the lot of other groups , this will act as a precipitant of crime .
14 One essential paradox is that it is those groups who are poorest in terms of resources to cope with difficulties who are beset with the greatest problems .
15 The hypothesis put forward by Gusfield , that it is those people who have experienced status erosion who become committed , remains at least a priori plausible .
16 Bob reminds me — quite rightly — that it is high time I wrote to you , to say how nice it was to see you both , if only briefly .
17 I believe that each of us has what I term a spirit ( but which I am quite happy for others to call the soul , the higher self , the inner self — or any of dozens of different names ) and that it is this spirit which has a journey to make through several lifetimes .
18 Dora says that it is this originality which is one of the strengths of Le Mystere ; ‘ Most of the women have no real training as singers .
19 When a speaker takes the trouble to use a restrictive relative clause in a noun phrase equipped with a definite article but no attributive adjective , it will naturally be presumed that it is this clause which makes recognition possible ; there is no need for such an assumption when the clause is non-restrictive .
20 Now , is it not possible that it is this rule which is the explanation of our referring to the feelings produced in our bodies by prolonged contact with hot or cold objects , as ‘ hot ’ and ‘ cold ’ ?
21 Troilus self-control , his patience , is admirable : he perceives that the Cressida whom he ‘ loved ’ is no longer unified , that it is another girl who is giving ‘ The fragments , scraps , the bits , and the greasy relics Of her o'ereaten faith ’ to Diomedes .
22 In the following summary of current approaches to the analysis of culture , for example , Raymond Williams suggests that it is these interactions which produce the way of life defining a social collectivity :
23 Capillaries also generate prostacyclin ( Goehlert et al , 1981 ) and studies with cultured cells have demonstrated that it is endothelial cells which are the main source ( Weksler et al , 1977 ) .
24 In their examination of popular culture Stuart Hall and Paddy Whannel were worried by the fact that music-hall seemed to belong far more to the professional performers than to the audiences and that it was individual stars who actually seemed to have created the stereotypes and much of the idiom .
25 Labour Scottish affairs spokesman , Henry McLeish , who obtained the document , said it was clear that it was political will which would determine whether the Highlands and Islands are successful .
26 Opinion was mobilised around the paradoxical notion that it was Black people who represented a threat to the rule of law in Britain .
27 The four soldiers , who are now all stationed in Germany but were then in Bordon , each said in evidence that it was this incident which had persuaded them to leave the pub .
28 When one sees that it was this snobbery which he set out to attack , it is possible to understand why he set about the delicate problem of pain in so breezy a fashion .
29 In a few years more , he was to decide that it was German blood which ran most compellingly in his veins .
30 Thus , there seems little doubt that it was bubonic plague which struck Chesterfield in 1586–87 .
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