Example sentences of "[noun sg] it be [noun] [Wh det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In part it was geography which made this possible . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Of course it was England which gave cricket toAustralia . |
| 7 | Just as Wernicke 's aphasia is in some sense the opposite of Broca 's aphasia , so transcortical aphasia is in some sense the opposite of conduction aphasia , because in transcortical aphasia it is repetition which is the best -preserved of the patient 's linguistic abilities , with the patient being extremely poor at understanding speech . |
| 8 | On the other hand it 's Magalluf which has made Majorca famous for British holidaymakers . |
| 9 | How can man make history if at the same time it is history which makes him ? |
| 10 | ‘ Well , I expect Mr Gajdusek will give you time off to compensate , ’ she suggested , holding down more remarks , though in actual fact it was questions which sprang to her lips : where had Mr Gajdusek gone and how long would he be away ? |
| 11 | But in fact it was Flodden which was a significant break in the pattern of cold rather than hot war with England , and after it the Scots simply reverted to their usual distant hostility . |