Example sentences of "and it is [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The international landscape with which we began 1989 — the old , familiar structures of the two alliances , the Anglo-American special relationship , the European Community 's halting progress toward greater unity , and the newer but also beginning to be familiar element of reform in the Soviet Union — is being transformed , and it is Germany which is leading that transformation . |
| 2 | And it is photography which Messager uses to divert our attention from the sweet nostalgia of an imagined past . |
| 3 | ‘ People look for new ways to supplement their income and it is employers who feel the pinch . ’ |
| 4 | And it is Britain she thanks for the startling transformation and thinks will keep her at the top . |
| 5 | The narrator ( of the Morgans ) is called Arthur and it is Arthur who survives the death of Philip and goes on to become a writer of some undefined kind on the model of David Copperfield and Great Expectations . |
| 6 | He holds the romantic belief that only the wordless language of music is complete and it is music which has always helped him to live and to write . |
| 7 | For instance , if clitorectomy often known as female circumcision — is a ‘ moral ’ requirement to serve male interests , it is nevertheless women who carry out , maintain and insist upon the practice , and it is women who express their moral offence if it is not carried out . |
| 8 | The health conditions of the vast majority of Salvadoreans can only be described as critical and it is women who must bear the brunt of caring for the ill . |
| 9 | In 1983 gas , coal and nuclear power accounted for 16% , 9% and 1% respectively of energy demand and it is gas which is establishing itself as the most significant oil alternative . |
| 10 | What happened here was apparently an attempt to change strokes into dots ; and it is dots he wrote for the immediate repeat of the theme . |
| 11 | But at root the attack is on God ( 11 ) , and it is God who puts the rebellion down . |
| 12 | It was opened in 1985 by its owners , Tim and Kit Kemp , and it is Kit who has been responsible for the interior decor throughout . |
| 13 | In " The retreate " , a complex linguistic and pragmatic site is displayed , and it is deixis which largely holds this together , enabling frames of context to be created , and leading the reader around and into the work . |
| 14 | And it is HarperCollins which is publishing the Collins Cobuild Concordance Samplers . |
| 15 | Throughout it is held that professionals and managers are people and it is people who should be brought to mind whenever such terms as professionalism and professionality or management and managerialism are encountered . |
| 16 | It is people who design multimedia systems and it is people who use them . |
| 17 | It is people who give you encouragement and support to turn ideas and dreams into reality and it is people who become friends . |
| 18 | Their record on crime is a disaster , and it is time they gave way to a Government who have the imagination and policies to tackle crime fundamentally , not at the periphery . |
| 19 | Piecemeal solutions are not enough in education , and it is time we recognized this . |
| 20 | ‘ I booked lunch at the château and it is time we were off . ’ |
| 21 | I have had a wonderful 10 years , but the financial pressures are mounting and it is time I moved on . ’ |