Example sentences of "it be [det] [noun] which " in BNC.

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1 Lying near it were some plates which had been washed and left to drain , and beside them stood the most delicate of porcelain cups .
2 The Malvern Hills have been looked after by the Conservators for around one hundred and ten years.Now they 're asking Parliament for more powers.And it 's that request which has led to controversy .
3 And it 's that moment which , when we trace the expansion backwards , will have occurred between about fifteen and eighteen billion years ago , but we ca n't say what , if anything , may have happened before that , whether the universe bounced out into another state of expansion , so we have a sort of a cut off in our ability to retrodict , or extrapolate backwards into the past .
4 A lot of people took risks to make the tractors sell and some economists feel it 's that confidence which will eventually pull Britain back up out of recession .
5 However , it 's the notes in the former chord which by intervallic interchange become chromatic notes in the latter chord , and it 's this approach which produces the most effective results .
6 And it 's this approach which is a key the scheme 's success .
7 I feel that it shows itself in the contrast between the child 's — we 're talking about children for the moment , although obviously there are dyslexic adults — it shows itself in the contrast between the person 's ability to express him or herself in words and their ability to put it down on paper and to read it off paper , and it 's this contrast which often arouses one 's suspicions that there might be some problem and , having gone into it a little , we find that it stems from a failure of the sensory motor system — the brain is n't processing the information it 's receiving through the ear and eye .
8 It 's this dream which prompted Rita to leave her Caribbean home for Canada six years ago .
9 And it 's this journey from external reality to the profound truths of art , a journey which takes Proust through a series of investigations of the nature of time , the nature of the intellect , the nature of memory , it 's this journey which I must now attempt to trace , and I perhaps just ought to say that I think I get abstract once or twice from this point onwards .
10 It 's this version which is now recognised as the rarest Dylan record in the world and valued in Neal Umpred 's Goldmine Price Guide To Collectible Record Albums as being worth $10,000 , though a bid of over $12,000 eventually secured a deal .
11 It 's this combination which has made Stoddard Templeton the proud holders of the Royal Warrant since 1966 .
12 This is the role of commercial group 's distribution services and it 's this department which has drawn up a new packaging policy and code of practice .
13 It 's these lectures which finally unbalance Bob Roberts , which shifts from crisp satire to stodgy tract under the sheer density of Robbins ’ disgust with US politics , losing along the way the warped rock ‘ n ’ roll and documentary trappings which give bite to the first film intelligent enough to see assassination as a career move for the victim .
14 I 'm afraid it 's another story which does n't reflect much credit on me — I seem doomed to show you the worst side of my character .
15 It 's another place which needs treating — if you like with some of the same rules you would apply inside .
16 It is such questions which one must ask of Christians , particularly Christians who would be feminist , who explain that the creation story ( or any other part of the Christian story which may be said to be sexist ) is to them a ‘ true myth ’ .
17 Most important is the district council ; for nearly all purposes they are the planning authority and it is that council which issues planning consent .
18 That is where our freedom lies and it is that freedom which the fatwa threatens , and which it can not be allowed to destroy . ’
19 In some sense , then , the function of the Creole seems to be to emphasise the content of that particular piece of talk , for it is that content which is reacted to by other speakers .
20 It is that structure which determines longer-run profitability .
21 Whilst a patent will be refused for a computer program simpliciter ( or any of the other exceptions in section 1(2) for that matter ) it will be allowed if the purpose of the program is to bring about some practical effect and it is that effect which is the subject matter of the patent application .
22 Kevin Gallacher , Coventry 's leading scorer , could return after a four match absence through injury and it is that department which , according to manager Don Howe , has dragged Coventry into the relegation fray .
23 The only difficulty is , is er the interpretation of of the words and er whether or not the the words er er er er in the vicinity of is more constricting than we anticipate and it is that point which will be needn which needs to be addressed , but I think I can assure the No Noble Lord that erm er they w w will have full jurisdiction on and in the vicinity of the stations which is the point which she which she is anxious about and that will continue just the same after April the first before .
24 And it is that point which has raised questions in the minds of some MPs who hitherto have been relatively happy with Clarke .
25 And it is that uncertainty which limits the value the City can put on Sir Ernest 's other risky ventures , and explains why the share prices do not add up .
26 I would perhaps rather always see the " real " world in respect to art in these terms — that to know an object is to transform it , and it is this transformation which is the form and imagery of art .
27 It is this consideration which leads directly to the way that social representation theorists conceive of the process of anchoring , and the need to widen this conception , so that everyday thinking can be understood in terms of opposing psychological processes .
28 We can suppose , then , that only justified beliefs can justify others ; and it is this thought which generates the regress .
29 And it is this approach which leads to denunciation of Derrida as a nihilist ; in Frederick Crews 's words , ‘ an intellectual nihilist , though a learned and exuberant one ’ .
30 It is this approach which Sweden has begun to adopt .
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