Example sentences of "[that] it be [noun] who " in BNC.
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| 1 | Empty phrases to give you the illusion that it 's Adam who 's holding you , and not me ? |
| 2 | 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 ! |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | It may be said , then , that it is China who again , and at this point , determined the fortunes of Vietnam . |
| 6 | 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 . ) |
| 7 | Despite Sartre 's reiteration that it is man who makes it , history increasingly assumes its own ontological status in the Critiques . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | But it still obscures the fact that it is women who are raped . |
| 11 | The argument goes that it is women who are in fact doing all the reproducing of labour power and servicing other people 's escapes . |
| 12 | She argues that it is families who see each other frequently where one finds most practical support being given , because frequent contact affords the opportunity for pressure to be put upon individuals to ‘ keep up their kinship obligations ’ ( Bott , 1957 , p. 133 ) . |
| 13 | But gradually it emerges that it is Michael who is the real success . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | This does not mean that national history and culture will not bulk large in the educational systems of particular countries , especially the smaller ones , or that they may not flourish locally within a much broader supranational framework as , say , Catalan culture today flourishes , but on the tacit assumption that it is Catalans who will communicate with the rest of the world through Spanish and English , since few non-residents in Catalonia will be able to communicate in the local language . |
| 16 | There may be , too , a sotto voce challenge to the received wisdom that it is people who cause desertification . |
| 17 | Now I do see that it is men who are having to learn what comes more naturally to us . |
| 18 | It is part of an attempt to deter potential recruits and to distract us from concluding that it is men who are the cause of women 's oppression , not anyone else . |
| 19 | But I imagine the fact that it is Sipotai who is charging into the net must provide you with certain gratification . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . ' |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 ’ . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | " And you might as well know that it was Paul who shot the fawn last night too , not me . " |
| 28 | In his defence , the defendant claimed that it was T who had approached him and that he had not initiated the agreement . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Only then did it occur to me that , of course , my witticism would not be easily appreciated by someone who was not aware that it was gypsies who had passed by . |