Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] it be he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever his reasons for staying , Reg certainly knew his football and it was he who turned a team of no-hopers into one capable of sustaining a bottom six position for the rest of the decade . |
| 2 | In the time of the Labour Government the Chief Secretary had been Joel Barnett and it was he who had forced Barbara Castle into her major and controversial changes . |
| 3 | A quiet , soft-spoken man , he arrived at the yards in the dark days of 1983 fresh from a difficult stint at British Shipbuilders and it was he who persuaded the Government to allow a management/employee buyout in 1988 . |
| 4 | But under the revised membership clause of the constitution the Rev W. B. Sleight , who was not a missioner , was eligible for this honour and it was he , who , " in accordance with the general feeling " , was elected the first President of the BDDA . |
| 5 | He grew up hating any form of bloodshed and it was he who founded Eton College , also King 's College , Cambridge . |
| 6 | So the property passed to his eldest sister 's son the Reverend Richard Rowland Ward and it was he and Mrs Ward who lived out their architectural fantasies . |
| 7 | Park was perhaps the most influential early member of this group and it was he who , in tracing this transition , distinguished between what they called the ‘ biotic ’ and ‘ cultural ’ levels of human behaviour . |
| 8 | We will but it 'll it 'll take him another probably another three weeks but it 's he 's getting there . |
| 9 | Kenneth MacMillan is a master of many styles and views but it was he who first revealed Lynn Seymour 's dramatic gifts in Romeo and Juliet and has more recently been doing the same for Darcey Bussell . |
| 10 | He is portrayed as showing sorrow at the destruction caused by German bombers and it is he who ‘ saves the day ’ by first giving himself up and then being shot by Clogger . |
| 11 | Lewis was the presiding genius ; the meeting took place in his rooms and it was he who chose the moment to ask if anyone present had any work in progress which they wanted to read aloud . |
| 12 | John was keen to help in a practical way and it was he who came up with an idea for marking John 's year in captivity . |
| 13 | Molyneux , like Richmond , won his freedom as a result of his boxing and it was he , more than any other early black sportsman , who ‘ showed how prize fighting could be the means by which a man of his colour might gain prominence and a certain undeniable importance akin to a theatrical star ’ ( Farr , 1964 , p.3 ) . |
| 14 | But it was too late in the day to get Hungary out of its Axis alliances and it was he who annexed Ruthenia and negotiated the Vienna Award of August 1940 , by which Hitler gave back to Hungary half of Transylvania , including the old regional capital of Kolozsvár ( Cluj ) . |
| 15 | When the appointment of three arbitrators is required , each party chooses one arbitrator , and the arbitrators-dual appointed-dual in this way choose the third arbitrator and it is he who takes on the presidency of the arbitration authority . |