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

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1 ‘ She reckons it were that chap she worked for , the one what lives in one of they new houses here in Upper Benbury . ’
2 It 's that total I want .
3 No it 's that way I 've already put it in my handbag .
4 It 's that stuff I made last year and
5 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 .
6 And if it 's that girl you 're thinking of , forget it .
7 It 's that sterilizer you asked me to watch , Nurse Dungarvan .
8 Perhaps it 's that bloke who locked the gates in Gibraltar so they could n't get into Spain .
9 Well this is what she said ju just now , yeah well not just now , earlier on , she said about getting out there and I said well I 'm sure it 's that place she said well it 's the only one out there that she could think of .
10 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 .
11 It 's that crowd 'e 's runnin' aroun ’ wiv .
12 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 .
13 Most important is the district council ; for nearly all purposes they are the planning authority and it is that council which issues planning consent .
14 It is that man who is now her lover .
15 That is where our freedom lies and it is that freedom which the fatwa threatens , and which it can not be allowed to destroy . ’
16 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 .
17 It is that structure which determines longer-run profitability .
18 In the life of a maturing Christian it is that space I give in quiet thought , reflection and meditation .
19 The individual in whom that spirit lives will be faced with the opportunity to do such wrong and it is that individual who makes the choice and decides which path to follow .
20 It is that industry itself has come to hold a position of exclusive predominance among human interests , which no single interest , and least of all the provision of the material means of existence , is fit to occupy .
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 It was that determination which gave her doctors and parents such hope when she underwent a heart and lung transplant ; a last ditch attempt to save her , after her lungs were virtually destroyed by the disease Cystic Fibrosis .
27 It was that independence which enabled us to participate in the Gulf war and to initiate the Falklands conflict without having to secure the agreement of our 11 Community colleagues .
28 But it was the patronage of Sir John Coke [ q.v. ] , one of the principal secretaries of state from 1625 to 1639 , which lay behind his rise to complete control of foreign and domestic posts in the 1630s ; and it was that achievement which gave him the opportunity both to create a new postal service and to acquire an estate in Essex worth £800 a year .
29 Sharpe had taken a royal fortune off the battlefield , and it was that fortune which Jane had stolen from him , and much of which she had already spent on a London house and on silks and on furniture and on jewels and on Lord John 's debts , and on silverware and gold plate and Chinese wallpaper and on lapdogs and satin and on the cabriolet in which Lord John now rode towards the cavalry and battle .
30 It was that sense which had brought me to Munding , which had set me hunting the Green Man in the woods .
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