Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] be [noun prp] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first the first half a year that I was Holland I I do n't think I was away for a holiday , but then the the next Summer then I was away . |
| 2 | Although it was Dorothy who had come to interview the officials at PopCon ( ’ an Intergovernmental Agency for Fundamental Research into the Worldwide Problems of Population Stabilisation' ) , she kept getting the impression that it was they who were interrogating her . |
| 3 | Their total of thirty-six questions was less than 2 per cent of all the questions put , although it was Stirling who revealed the attitude of the lay judges towards the assessors . |
| 4 | Although it was Aladdin we were watching , Wishy Washy ( Michael Barrymore ) took over the show with his never-ending wisecracks . |
| 5 | You 're forgetting that it 's Hilary you would have to turn to if you want me taken out . |
| 6 | Empty phrases to give you the illusion that it 's Adam who 's holding you , and not me ? |
| 7 | ‘ But what you do n't understand is that it 's Leo I 'm doing it for . ’ |
| 8 | Yet years on how come that it is Cecil who is regarded mostly as a flawed but well meaning sweety-pie and Miss Keays as someone who has all the charisma of an old battleaxe ? |
| 9 | It may be said , then , that it is China who again , and at this point , determined the fortunes of Vietnam . |
| 10 | But did we not read in St. John that it is Jesus who makes the Father known and discloses to us his nature ( John I 18 , 3:13 etc . ) |
| 11 | But gradually it emerges that it is Michael who is the real success . |
| 12 | We are in danger of forgetting that it is God we are talking about : the God who created us , the God who sustains us and has sovereign rights over us . |
| 13 | Taking an existentialist approach , he says that it is God who delivers us into freedom , which is not something which we can accomplish for ourselves . |
| 14 | But I imagine the fact that it is Sipotai who is charging into the net must provide you with certain gratification . ’ |
| 15 | Yesterday we discovered that it is Portugal which dictates the pace now . |
| 16 | The same month , a United Nations commission , set up as part of the peace agreement , said that it was d'Aubuisson who had arranged the murder of Archbishop Oscar Romero in 1980 . |
| 17 | It would seem that it was Hazelden who sold to the planners at MEHQ the idea of delivering a final knock-out blow to the two main German supply ports , Tobruk and Benghazi . |
| 18 | It is a curious joke of history that it was Stalin who gave Lithuania its capital city ( between the wars it was in Poland ) , and Tito who , in order to weaken great-Serbian chauvinism , created a much larger Croatia with a much larger Serbian minority . |
| 19 | There is some evidence that it was Snowden who suggested the formula of the ‘ doctor 's mandate ’ , at a Cabinet meeting on 5 October , under which the component parts of the National Government were each to issue their own manifestos , with a separate personal appeal from the Prime Minister , According to Neville Chamberlain , ‘ Snowden … produced the suggestion that the Prime Minister should issue his own manifesto asking for a free hand [ i.e. on tariffs ] and the two Party leaders should each issue their own programmes and to our astonishment this was at once accepted by the Liberals , ' Amery , who perhaps got the information from Chamberlain , wrote in his diary on 6 October , ‘ Apparently when the deadlock seemed most complete Snowden suggested that the PM should issue his own manifesto , each of the other party leaders issuing theirs . ' |
| 20 | I had to wheedle the information out of him , but Capron said he was the senior case officer on the investigation into Mills , and could confirm absolutely that it was Mills who was the Soviet agent who had betrayed my father . |
| 21 | In the middle of the twentieth century Duguid ( 1946 ) emphasised the importance of arterial thrombi in the genesis of the plaque and pointed out that it was Rokitansky who first put forward the ‘ encrustation hypothesis ’ . |
| 22 | Keynes has shown that he and his brothers , six of them according to Florence of Worcester , appear in the witness lists of royal charters for some time before 1006 ; but it was in 1007 that Eadric received his ealdormanry , and Florence says that it was Eadric who had Ælfhelm murdered and the king who blinded his sons . |
| 23 | " And you might as well know that it was Paul who shot the fawn last night too , not me . " |
| 24 | This account too contains some blunders , for it is likely that it was Æthelstan who was killed in battle , at Sherston , and that Edmund brought the relief , but when Thietmar wrote Britannis he was not thinking of Englishmen , whom he always describes as Angli . |
| 25 | The answer is ‘ yes ’ : a recent article , drawing on Eusebius ' Life of Constantine , seems to show without doubt that it was Constantine who introduced this law : Eusebius describes measures implemented by Constantine which can only be understood as referring to this law . |
| 26 | On Monday , the jury at Mold Crown Court , was told by Burgess that it was McLean who was responsible for the attack , kicking and stamping on her . |
| 27 | Remembering that it was Wordsworth whom the Utilitarian John Stuart Mill turned to when he found that his philosophy produced nothing but visions of a grey and empty world , and that Matthew Arnold , after Wordsworth 's death , believed that he alone could heal human nature in the ‘ iron time ’ , the little poem that follows , written in 1833 , seems a convenient summing-up of Wordsworth 's mature attitudes . |
| 28 | All the way from the Lock she had told herself that it was Gazzer who was lying . |
| 29 | For reasons which baffle me , the referee thought that it was Gimbert who was pulling down the scrum . |
| 30 | She found herself walking along the road saying ‘ I 'll talk it all over with Alan when I get in — he 'll know what to do ’ , only to remember that it was Alan who was the cause of the heartache . |