Example sentences of "that it [be] [noun prp] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The impression given by political commentators is that it is Mrs Thatcher who controls inner city expenditure — as she controls just about every item of government spending . |
| 2 | Bob Ewell who is the father of the so called victim , Mayella , is prepared to use his influence as a white to get Tom convicted even though we know that it is Bob Ewell who should be taking the punishment as it is made clear in the trial that he is the person who abuses Mayella not Tom . |
| 3 | Let us hope that it is Mr Clarke who needs an ambulance that has been stood down . ’ |
| 4 | Aided by the media , who have never failed to find an opportunity to slip in the idea that it is Saddam Hussein who wo n't negotiate , the US and its Allies have led their people into a terrifying war which will claim the lives of so many of their sons and daughters . |
| 5 | Ignorant of the fact that it was Battersea enamel she lit the wick beneath it , well soaked in methylated spirits . |
| 6 | The legend enshrines a popular belief that it was Dom Pérignon who created sparkling wine and invented Champagne as we know it today . |
| 7 | In a letter dated 25 October 1821 , Dom Grossard , the last cellarmaster of Hautvillers , informed Monsieur d'Herbes , the deputy mayor of Aÿ , that it was Dom Pérignon who had discovered the secret of making starbright white wines . |
| 8 | This has since expanded into a professionally organised system covering the whole country , but we should not forget that it was Harry Barber who began it . |
| 9 | A SMALL point on your book review of Durham : Birth of a First-Class County : had Ralph Dellor consulted the club or been at the match , he would have noted that it was Paul Parker who took the first ball from Oxford University pace bowler Michael Jeh , and not John Glendenen . |
| 10 | At Streatham and Liverpool in November he made his mark , observed by the Fascist apologist A. K. Chesterton ( cousin of G. K. Chesterton ) who recorded in his own life of Mosley that it was William Joyce who was the ‘ brilliant writer , speaker , and exponent of policy … addressed hundreds of meetings , always at his best , always revealing the iron spirit of Fascism in his refusal to be intimidated by violent opposition . ’ |
| 11 | German idealism was born out of a rejection of British empiricism : Immanuel Kant famously declared that it was David Hume who had woken him from his dogmatic slumbers . |
| 12 | The most humiliating thing for Mr Major was not the fact that it was Mr Lamont who made the blistering attack . |
| 13 | It was the fact that Perk had many different coloured ribbons and every day she would select one to go with her outfit and because she had gone missing wearing a yellow dress , Gail suspected that it was Mr Elder who had taken Perk . |
| 14 | And the third tells you that it was Isaac Newton who wrote this equation down because it matched what happened every time he played billiards or threw apples around . |
| 15 | Then she looked straight back into the old lady 's pale grey eyes and added , " Though I did hear tell that it was Sir Gregory himself , ma'am . " |
| 16 | Many believed that it was Havelock Wilson who had betrayed them . |
| 17 | Family tradition had it , says David Gieve in his bicentenary history of Gieves Hawkes 1785–1985 , that it was James Gieve who first persuaded the Director of Navy Accounts to extend the allotment system from the lower deck to officers . |
| 18 | That reminds me that it was Margaret Thatcher who said , Nobody would remember the Good Samaritan , if all he had was good intentions . |
| 19 | He believed the Prince that it was de Craon who had informed him on the Sunday night but how had the Frenchman known ? |
| 20 | She was n't quite sure why the possibility that it was Luke Hunter who had sent her the flowers was so disturbing … |