Example sentences of "it [be] [noun] [prep] [pron] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm an old hand at Falcon Sailing — it 's thanks to them I know that a holding tank 's nothing to do with the Russians in Prague . |
| 2 | She never forgets that it 's Howard to whom they all owe their place in the new order of things . |
| 3 | Although modern haymaking involves expensive , sophisticated machinery , it is still possible for a smallholder to make and store excellent hay with very modest tackle , and it is hay on which he is most likely to depend for the bulk of his winter keep . |
| 4 | Most of their neighbours have children , and because all the space around them is spare , it is space over which they have no control , and therefore ca n't use . |
| 5 | But if it is work in which we can join , the question needs to be asked : will we respond decisively ? |
| 6 | I will reply a little more freely , because you are who you are ; and because it is Gustave of whom I speak . |
| 7 | Though Berkeley mentions the scholastics , ‘ those great masters of abstraction ’ , it is Locke on whom he particularly focuses in his criticism of abstract ideas . |
| 8 | When Gerard Salvin wanted redress against the men who had attacked his house at Croxdale , just a few miles south of Durham itself , it was Gloucester to whom he appealed . |
| 9 | When Gerard Salvin wanted redress against the men who had attacked his house at Croxdale , just a few miles south of Durham itself , it was Gloucester to whom he appealed . |
| 10 | Nowadays , it was technology without which you would fail . |