Example sentences of "that it [be] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 It 's afternoon keep saying that it 's afternoon it 's morning to me this afternoon pick up your phone and give me a ring now O nine O four six four one six four one .
2 You 're forgetting that it 's Hilary you would have to turn to if you want me taken out .
3 Empty phrases to give you the illusion that it 's Adam who 's holding you , and not me ?
4 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 !
5 I feel that it 's time we made a commitment .
6 Being told when you have just turned fifty that it 's time you retired does rather hurt .
7 That it 's time you stopped living in the past and started moving into the present . ’
8 ‘ No — but you dropped a dirty big hint that it 's time I was married , ’ he snapped tersely .
9 The trouble is that it 's frogs we 're talking about here .
10 ‘ But what you do n't understand is that it 's Leo I 'm doing it for . ’
11 It is the projected activities , the group under E and F , which will concern us in this section , as we shall see that it is projection which protects the participants .
12 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 .
13 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 ?
14 ( n contrast both to the genetically based view of literary history which tends to ignore questions of form , and to other formally-biased approaches which tend to ignore history , the Russian Formalist view is that it is history itself which allows the specificity of literature to be established .
15 It may be said , then , that it is China who again , and at this point , determined the fortunes of Vietnam .
16 Although that has meant that not much can be done , in principle it is a good idea in that it forces underwater sites to compete with land sites for funding , and tends to keep the attention on the point that it is archaeology we are talking about .
17 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 . )
18 Despite Sartre 's reiteration that it is man who makes it , history increasingly assumes its own ontological status in the Critiques .
19 This may sound complicated , but rest assured , that it is simplicity itself .
20 The Marxist feminists argue that it is capital which gains the benefit from this exploitative form of labour , since it means that they can pay these women 's husbands lower wages than would be the case if male workers had to buy these services , for instance meals in cafes , laundries for clothes-washing , and nannies for their children .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 But it still obscures the fact that it is women who are raped .
24 The argument goes that it is women who are in fact doing all the reproducing of labour power and servicing other people 's escapes .
25 Nokia Oy , Helsinki says that it is increase its capital base with an international placing of about $100m of new preference shares ; no details yet .
26 However , it hardly seems satisfactory to say that it is conscience which tells us that conscience should be at the controls , for presumably self love would say the same of itself if given its head .
27 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 ) .
28 But gradually it emerges that it is Michael who is the real success .
29 Indeed , the very concrete physicality of objects might lead us to expect quite the opposite conclusion , which is that it is language which organizes the deep unconscious , while objects as visible images are a relatively superficial phenomenon .
30 This idea is at odds with the Saussurean principle that it is language which is primary , and that far from preceding language , meaning is an effect produced by language .
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