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Example sentences of "it be [noun] [pn reflx] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	The primitive sound of it stirred something deep inside me as though it were Pan himself , not some Indian labourer , playing those haunting notes on that rude instrument .
2	It 's simplicity itself to operate and unlike gas , oil or solid fuel installations , Total Heating with Central Control causes the minimum of fuss and mess when it 's installed .
3	It 's Prue herself who finds the crystal .
4	It 's space itself that is expanding .
5	It 's time itself that is affected .
6	‘ It 's Wilder himself who has got under her skin , ’ Silas commented drily .
7	It is Morrissey himself who is being warped , twisted and cheated by the media .
8	( 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 .
9	‘ It is life itself we must battle to preserve , ’ said Mrs Thatcher in her speech to the United Nations in New York .
10	It is humanity itself which must establish that which it wants to be right , and that which it wants to be wrong .
11	This may sound complicated , but rest assured , that it is simplicity itself .
12	Moreover , once the precise mathematical form of f(U) has been unearthed by econometric testing , it is simplicity itself to arrive at an estimate of U * ; — one has merely to evaluate the root of .
13	Therefore , in history it is not nature and technology which makes human society but it is man himself , who in terms of his already existing ideas and values , makes his own history , as he encounters nature and the problems it poses .
14	And to Maijers and other custodians of the pyramid of authority , it is Kanter herself who has the clearest response .
15	It is transcendence itself .
16	It is sociology itself ( Durkheim 1895 ) .
17	This time , it is God himself who descends from his empyrea .
18	Second , it is God himself who not only speaks but also hears that ‘ No ’ in the person of the one man who does not deserve to hear it , the righteous one who stands in the place of the unrighteous .
19	If there has been an oppressor that has held the human spirit in chains , then it is fear itself .
20	Once again it is Goody himself who points out the counter arguments , although , again , he proceeds to ignore them .
21	And the only person who can disprove it is Puddephat himself .
22	When they cross a region of space–time it is space–time itself that vibrates .
23	'T IS God Himself who speaks , not I !
24	She could n't help thinking that it was Mark himself who was largely responsible for the change .
25	It was Newton himself , again , who , during his priority dispute with Leibniz , encouraged the notion that the conclusions presented in a classical geometrical garb in the Principia were originally derived by him through his fluxional calculus — one more ‘ fable ’ .
26	And it was Morse himself who had initiated the arrest of Mr Edward Stratton as he stepped off his plane in New York ; Morse himself who had spoken with the aforementioned Stratton for forty-six minutes , seven seconds — as measured by the recently installed meter in the recently constituted Telephone Room at St Aldate 's .
27	It was Morse himself , too , who at 8.30 p.m. had called a halt to everything .
28	It was Lori herself who let her in , clad in a satin robe and nothing else .
29	When the WICBC met to discuss the captaincy for the visit to Australia in 1960–1 , it was Alexander himself who pressed Worrell 's claims , and in due course the announcement was made that Worrell would lead the team .
30	And also , remember , the firms , which as I say , were dying on their feet in any case , and I me , I did quote the Colchester Lathe because I felt so personally about that cos it was Colchester itself they have actually moved their division up to Leicester itself .