Example sentences of "[noun sg] it [be] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're taking it away so was doing a tape for grandma and granddad and Keith was going , he was going hello grandma and granddad it 's Kenny you know like the three of them and he was going , whoop whoop whoop oh da ! |
| 2 | In the New Testament it is Paul who develops the concept of salvation in terms of justification . |
| 3 | When they cross a region of space–time it is space–time itself that vibrates . |
| 4 | Edith had also stopped all the pupils in the school from beating her up again after the first incident and during the riot it was Edith who had saved her life . |
| 5 | On the final lap it was Robert who beat his brother to the Metropole corner , after the 180mph descent from Coleraine . |
| 6 | From the late 18th century onward these brought sealers from North America and Europe into the Southern Ocean ; during the subsequent decades of competitive exploitation it was sealers who discovered most of the cold temperate islands , the ice-covered islands within the pack ice belt , the tip of Antarctic Peninsula , and the great ice-filled bight of the Weddell Sea . |
| 7 | This is humanity 's oft-repeated experience , and in the long run it is experience which really teaches , and no amount of scriptural citation of divinely allocated land will ever alter that . |
| 8 | Indeed , at the end of the scene it is Olivia who is left alone on stage — in that key situation of the end-of-scene soliloquy that tells all — to declare her newfound , misbegotten love in verse . |
| 9 | But when they arrived at the meeting it was Oldfield who was wearing Branson 's horn-rimmed spectacles , riffling papers in his briefcase and doing his best to look brisk and businesslike , while Branson gesticulated in a parody of artistic eccentricity . |
| 10 | But I think after three glasses of wine it 's time I went home . ’ |
| 11 | In the event it was Alaska which became the 49th State of the Union ( in 1959 ) but it could easily have been Coca-Colonial Britain . |
| 12 | But to Sophie 's intense mortification it was Dawn who arrived and said calmly , ‘ Robert has been called out to a difficult calving case and I 've been told to give you his apologies . |
| 13 | Under the next gas lamp it was Sarah who looked at him , but he stared straight ahead . |
| 14 | Obviously , if Jane says I 'm skipping and Mary says I 'm skipping we observe that on one occasion it is Jane who announces that she is skipping and on another it is Mary . |
| 15 | Well I 'm done now for till tomorrow morning and then thank god it 's Friday I say . |
| 16 | Yeah there 's the price it 's size it 's this product you know the reason we 're phone you because you 've been identified as by the estate agent or medical practice or school as being very suitable and they would very much like you to support this . |
| 17 | When the rise in rents from 1912 onwards threatened to overwhelm the family economy it was women who protested and led rent strikes , for example in Leeds and , more famously , Glasgow , leading to the imposition of rent control in 1915 . |
| 18 | When I arrived and rang the bell it was Albert who showed me in . |
| 19 | She always brushed Corrie 's beautiful hair when she came to the rectory , and though she began teaching both children the alphabet it was Corrie who received the most attention . |
| 20 | In times of trouble it is children who suffer most — whether through war or the daily grind of poverty . |
| 21 | It is future planning it is growth it is commended to you all . |
| 22 | In mine it is Philonous who finally says , ‘ All right ’ ( though note that it is followed by ‘ but ’ ) . |
| 23 | Though they both wore the uniform of a Private it was plain who was of superior rank . |
| 24 | All right so it 's er it 's one down in the Mirror crossword it 's C something O something something |
| 25 | When the TUC expelled the electricians ' union it was Jordan who determinedly merged his engineering union with theirs , to the fury of the hard left . |
| 26 | Other approaches , including those of Douglas and Bourdieu , are concerned with consumers themselves as groups with interests , both cognitive and material , which are projected in patterns of objects , and in this case it is industry which is seen as handmaiden to the pattern of consumer group demands . |
| 27 | ‘ Yes ? ’ she answered , her voice guarded in case it was Jason who was calling . |
| 28 | In any case it was Shirley who had typed the card and she was in a higher or lower world that cared nothing for such trivia . |
| 29 | In part it was geography which made this possible . |
| 30 | But for the majority it was purity which provided the language both to challenge men 's immorality and to stake out their own claim to speak about sex . |