Example sentences of "[conj] it be [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although it was midday everything was pitch dark . |
| 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 | Although it was Church who originally proposed the use of ‘ pinches ’ and ‘ scoops ’ for measuring out the components of salt-sugar solutions for the purpose of oral rehydration , it was BRAC which adapted this method for use by the people of Bangladesh . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Although it was Aladdin we were watching , Wishy Washy ( Michael Barrymore ) took over the show with his never-ending wisecracks . |
| 6 | It 's afternoon keep saying that it 's afternoon it 's morning to me this afternoon pick up your phone and give me a ring now O nine O four six four one six four one . |
| 7 | You 're forgetting that it 's Hilary you would have to turn to if you want me taken out . |
| 8 | Empty phrases to give you the illusion that it 's Adam who 's holding you , and not me ? |
| 9 | Human behaviour tends to be reshaped very quickly with this method … and usually we find that it 's dad who ends up parting with most money ! |
| 10 | I feel that it 's time we made a commitment . |
| 11 | Being told when you have just turned fifty that it 's time you retired does rather hurt . |
| 12 | That it 's time you stopped living in the past and started moving into the present . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ No — but you dropped a dirty big hint that it 's time I was married , ’ he snapped tersely . |
| 14 | The trouble is that it 's frogs we 're talking about here . |
| 15 | ‘ But what you do n't understand is that it 's Leo I 'm doing it for . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Throughout , our view has been that it is teachers who are closest to children , and together with parents they are responsible for deciding how to use the tools at hand . |
| 18 | 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 ? |
| 19 | ( n contrast both to the genetically based view of literary history which tends to ignore questions of form , and to other formally-biased approaches which tend to ignore history , the Russian Formalist view is that it is history itself which allows the specificity of literature to be established . |
| 20 | It may be said , then , that it is China who again , and at this point , determined the fortunes of Vietnam . |
| 21 | Although that has meant that not much can be done , in principle it is a good idea in that it forces underwater sites to compete with land sites for funding , and tends to keep the attention on the point that it is archaeology we are talking about . |
| 22 | 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 . ) |
| 23 | Despite Sartre 's reiteration that it is man who makes it , history increasingly assumes its own ontological status in the Critiques . |
| 24 | This may sound complicated , but rest assured , that it is simplicity itself . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | DEEP THINKERS Forward planning O'Donovan also offers the simple but profound thought that it is women who will be giving birth to the next generation of Rugby League players . |
| 27 | The corollary of this is that it is women who are expected to undertake the reproduction of labour-power within the family , whether they also have waged jobs or not . |
| 28 | But it still obscures the fact that it is women who are raped . |
| 29 | The argument goes that it is women who are in fact doing all the reproducing of labour power and servicing other people 's escapes . |
| 30 | Nokia Oy , Helsinki says that it is increase its capital base with an international placing of about $100m of new preference shares ; no details yet . |