Example sentences of "[adv] it be [noun] [Wh pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So so you 're saying that basically it was outsiders who erm |
| 2 | So naturally it was Tess who should represent her family at the d'Urberville home . |
| 3 | Perhaps it is fathers who are jealous of the sons who will soon replace them . |
| 4 | Perhaps it was Veronica who spring-cleaned the flat ? |
| 5 | And so it was Emily who , if all that had been said about herself and George was true , would miss him most and she was absent from the funeral . |
| 6 | Thus it is Pippin who looks up at the sun and the banners and offers comfort to Beregond , and Merry who never loses heart when even Théoden appears prey to ‘ horror and doubt ’ . |
| 7 | One group of people consider fishing men 's work and weaving women 's , while two hundred miles away it is women who fish and men who weave . |
| 8 | Forest are at home tonight it 's Millwall who try and stop Stammon and we of course will be there too . |
| 9 | Erm yeah er mm yeah no I 'm quite intrigued myself about this , this idea that erm somehow it 's heterosexuals who trus who are trustworthy and that , you know , once you have a sexuality that 's different from heterosexuality then you ca n't be trusted with children and you , you know you , you ca n't be trusted to er you know I do n't know , run boys ' clubs , you ca n't be trusted in , in a , you know , it 's sort of , it 's almost like , like erm er it , it almost flies in the face of evidence that the vast majority of sexual abuse that goes on of one sort or another is , is heterosexual , it 's |
| 10 | But like most families while father appears to be the boss more often than not it 's mother who usually has the last word . |
| 11 | John is n't satisfied with it , we are bogged down , and finally it is Campbell who comes up with a plausible route through drunken , volatile shifts of feeling . |
| 12 | Finally it was Alexei who made a noise , which might have indicated either disgust or anger , then brushed past . |
| 13 | Finally it was Burun who brought the matter into the open . |
| 14 | And when the door finally flew open it was Mandy who first saw them . |
| 15 | Well I do n't I said , I said I 'll take it , but I said that I really do n't , I mean I said it 's really , I said I 've explained very carefully it 's Iris who had all that yes , ah , but here 's a script , so you see , that had at least got through |
| 16 | Four months later it was Legasov who led the Soviet delegation to the Vienna conference on the disaster , and it was the forcefulness of his opening five-hour speech that established the conventional wisdom about Chernobyl : that it had been caused by human error among the operators , that the measures taken to protect the population had been adequate , and that the Soviet Union had nothing to hide . |
| 17 | Seven years later it was Meg who got him the audition on TV 's Opportunity Knocks which was to give him his big break . |
| 18 | Ironically it was Distillery who settled into the game and looked dangerous in a brief spell midway through the first half but in the space of two minutes Stephen Baxter 's shot was touched away by Kevin McKeown and midfielder Philip Mitchell 's header landed on the roof of the net . |
| 19 | Thirdly , while evaluation intends to assess outcomes such as progress or performance , inevitably it is people who are labelled . |
| 20 | Now it is Laci who initiates the great ideas , but I am always part of the realisation . |
| 21 | Now it 's Dominic who hovers selfconsciously , scribbling busily on a yellow legal pad . |
| 22 | Now it was Ronni who cut across him . |
| 23 | Understandably thinking that he had achieved an odd escape , declarer gleefully played off three rounds of diamonds to discard his losing club , but now it was West who took the setting trick when he was able to ruff . |
| 24 | Of course during the previous factional struggles it had been Trotsky who had been accused of advocating policies which would have led to a split between the working class and peasantry , but now it was Stalin who was in Bukharin 's sights . |
| 25 | Now it was Zeinab who shrugged . |
| 26 | I 'm never quite sure really to be honest whether these individuals had an interview with Jesus or Jesus had an interview with them , because whether they thought that Jesus or whether they thought they were doing the , the probing and the questioning really it was Jesus who was in charge of the interview , you may of watched er certain chat shows on the , on the television or heard them on the radio and er depending who the person being interviewed is , very often it actually changes , and its the interviewer who really is being put through it , its the , its the person who 's being interviewed is in charge of the situation and that was the case here Jesus . |
| 27 | Because , whether they sought out Jesus or whether they thought they were doing the the probing and the questioning , really it was Jesus who was in charge of the interview . |
| 28 | Peterborough have been looking increasingly like first division fodder but today it was Birmingham who were left scrabbling around for crumbs and there were n't too many of them . |
| 29 | looking at those well it was Denise who brought the list in , but I 'd already with the sta er the gardens but , you know the garden scheme in Northumberland . |
| 30 | Oh well it were painter who died . |