Example sentences of "it be the [adj] which " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is the former which produces the conscience , the latter benefits from it . |
| 2 | These two predominant activities are merely complemented by the club 's social side and it is the former which , in fact , brings together friends and acquaintances in pursuit of the latter . |
| 3 | How political and social systems work , how disadvantage and oppression are established and maintained is not easy to make visible , and it is the visible which is privileged in the hierarchy of discourses within the classic realist text . |
| 4 | It is the latter which , Tallis argues , has been generally misapplied . |
| 5 | It is the latter which are relevant to the chemical-sensitive patient , and they do provide some interesting and revealing parallels . |
| 6 | It is the latter which has greatest popular appeal , rather akin to the following for ice dancing where choreography and style in tempo with the rhythm offer great opportunities for graceful interpretation . |
| 7 | While they must have been closely linked , it would help if we could distinguish between the circulation of such goods and their deposition in graves , for it is the latter which is actually being studied . |
| 8 | The distinction between the responsibility of the Home Office for the criminal law , and the Lord Chancellor 's Department for the civil law , has been preserved , but its significance has been lessened by the gloss that it is the latter which exercises control over all court administration for criminal as well as civil cases . |
| 9 | It is the latter which is the main focus of this chapter . |
| 10 | It is the latter which is of particular interest to us here , but there is some common ground and the former should provide some insight into the latter . |
| 11 | It was the dying which worried me — the thought of mutilation , agony , and being buried far from home . |
| 12 | far as our story is concerned , it was the 1800's which witnessed the greatest mining activity in these fells . |
| 13 | But it was the former which , as a member of the Government , he was really concerned to promote : Labour 's War Aims Memorandum was to serve primarily as a reason to continue fighting the war . |
| 14 | He most certainly had few fond memories of the latter employment , but it was the former which caused him to curse his luck at having been born in Derby . |
| 15 | It was the latter which so struck Henry Detterding , the Director General of the Royal Dutch Petroleum Company , who resolved to build himself a ‘ Butterfly ’ house and commissioned Maufe . |
| 16 | It was the latter which represented new clearings . |
| 17 | As a result he developed links with Hastings as well as Gloucester , but it was the latter which dictated his actions in 1483 . |
| 18 | It was impossible for Theodore to maintain the integrity of Wilfrid 's position while at the same time attempting to conserve the tradition which Eata , Eadhaed and Bosa represented , and in the years which followed it was the latter which was consolidated . |
| 19 | As a result he developed links with Hastings as well as Gloucester , but it was the latter which dictated his actions in 1483 . |
| 20 | Ultimately , it was the latter which guided de Gaulle 's actions , and when the two came into conflict ( as they did in 1962 , over the issue of constitutional revision ) it was the abstract relationship that had to yield . |
| 21 | It was the latter which still found itself on the drawing board when the rest had hit the cutting room floor . |