Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] be [noun] [Wh det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now that was er , it was er or they were oranges what had been cut in half and they had the centre taken out so it was just the orange peel and that was pressed into these barrels , filled with water and that was then brought up on to the quay , left on the quay and that used to go to . |
| 2 | And while it 's very reassuring that schools have n't changed too much — I do n't think we want everything to change overnight — I think you could say that schools are open to the same criticism as of British industry at the moment , that they are institutions which perhaps are changing too slowly for the demands of the modern world . |
| 3 | Freud came to see , later , that human beings are not predisposed to admit that they are organisms which die and are destructive any more than they had been prepared to admit that young children , under five years of age , were sexual . |
| 4 | The examples of ( 32 ) are simply associatives , as treated above in Chapter 2 : ( 32 ) a criminal lawyer subterranean explorer electrical worker 6.6 This leaves us with a small number of other phrases such as those in ( 33 ) , which turn out to be worth further investigation : ( 33 ) a true poet our late president a sheer fraud a real friend the future king my old school We certainly agree that there is an intuitively different " feel " to these , and a few others which can be found in the corps of English adjectives , and we would agree also that this has something to do with the distinction between referent ( or entity ) and sense ; however , we can not agree with Bolinger 's verdict that they are adjectives which qualify sense only . |
| 5 | To entertain the idea that they are matters which are open to discussion is in fact deeply offensive . |
| 6 | But in his analyses of kinship relations or of cooking , for example , Lévi-Strauss 's approach is based entirely on the assumption that they are systems which are structured like a language ; that is to say , that their individual elements have meaning only in so far as they are part of an overall system . |
| 7 | Other departmental proposals were considered : They were all valid in their own right , but … too narrow , and we felt that they were ones which we would have to attempt to deal with out of capitation . |
| 8 | The mechanism whereby they move depends on a process of recombination , so they are parasites whose success depends on the devices that have evolved in cells to replicate and recombine DNA . |
| 9 | It is the projected activities , the group under E and F , which will concern us in this section , as we shall see that it is projection which protects the participants . |
| 10 | The Marxist feminists argue that it is capital which gains the benefit from this exploitative form of labour , since it means that they can pay these women 's husbands lower wages than would be the case if male workers had to buy these services , for instance meals in cafes , laundries for clothes-washing , and nannies for their children . |
| 11 | However , it hardly seems satisfactory to say that it is conscience which tells us that conscience should be at the controls , for presumably self love would say the same of itself if given its head . |
| 12 | Indeed , the very concrete physicality of objects might lead us to expect quite the opposite conclusion , which is that it is language which organizes the deep unconscious , while objects as visible images are a relatively superficial phenomenon . |
| 13 | This idea is at odds with the Saussurean principle that it is language which is primary , and that far from preceding language , meaning is an effect produced by language . |
| 14 | Both agree that it is theories which do the job of explanation , but disagree on precisely how it achieves this and , as a result , on the nature of theory itself . |
| 15 | Take a pair of binoculars with you so that when you spot surface activity in a distant area you can use them to confirm or otherwise that it is bream which are the cause . |
| 16 | Yesterday we discovered that it is Portugal which dictates the pace now . |
| 17 | Some heads of department believed that the self-appraisal report was the product of departmental discussion , but that it was discussion which had taken place over the last few years rather than during the time specifically set aside for the self-appraisal . |
| 18 | Despite warnings , Mrs Thatcher stressed her leadership role in Europe , saying that it was Britain which had put up an alternative scheme to the Delors plan and had taken the initiative over the idea of associate EC status for East Germany . |
| 19 | Despite warnings , Mrs Thatcher stressed her leadership role in Europe , saying that it was Britain which had put up an alternative scheme to the Delors plan and had taken the initiative over the idea of associate EC status for East Germany . |
| 20 | In Coventry , Salmon is reported to have committed ‘ wicked Swearing , and uncleaness , which he justified and others of his way , That it was God which did swear in them , and that it was their liberty to keep company with Women , for their Lust ’ . |
| 21 | This brings us near to the suggestion that it was Massalia which provided the Celtic chieftains with a new , more exciting , way of getting drunk at their famous hierarchically organized banquets : wine made mead and beer less prestigious . |
| 22 | Purchasing costs often represent a substantial part of the total costs of production , and they are costs which may be incurred by various sub-units of production . |
| 23 | They are books which bring together all three of the worlds we inhabit , and they are books which appear to thrive on being seen through — on the transparency of their suggestion that tyrannies , that sycophancy , conspiracy and repression , courts and courtiers , are all on the royal right , and in the bush , and running into the sand . |
| 24 | It is generally older dogs that are nervous of vehicles , especially if they are strays whose only previous experience of travelling in this fashion is being dumped in the dog warden 's van . |
| 25 | So they 're just examples of attitude gents , which And it 's attitude which causes the problems . |
| 26 | The international landscape with which we began 1989 — the old , familiar structures of the two alliances , the Anglo-American special relationship , the European Community 's halting progress toward greater unity , and the newer but also beginning to be familiar element of reform in the Soviet Union — is being transformed , and it is Germany which is leading that transformation . |
| 27 | And it is photography which Messager uses to divert our attention from the sweet nostalgia of an imagined past . |
| 28 | He holds the romantic belief that only the wordless language of music is complete and it is music which has always helped him to live and to write . |
| 29 | In 1983 gas , coal and nuclear power accounted for 16% , 9% and 1% respectively of energy demand and it is gas which is establishing itself as the most significant oil alternative . |
| 30 | In " The retreate " , a complex linguistic and pragmatic site is displayed , and it is deixis which largely holds this together , enabling frames of context to be created , and leading the reader around and into the work . |