Example sentences of "it be [noun prp] which " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not everyone understands it is HC which makes people behave strangely . |
| 2 | It is not the general who must go , his aides say , it is Tayif which must change . |
| 3 | For Callinicos it is October which made the vision of social transformation ‘ concrete ’ . |
| 4 | The international landscape with which we began 1989 — the old , familiar structures of the two alliances , the Anglo-American special relationship , the European Community 's halting progress toward greater unity , and the newer but also beginning to be familiar element of reform in the Soviet Union — is being transformed , and it is Germany which is leading that transformation . |
| 5 | However , it is Laugharne which is most synonymous with Wales ' most famous 20th century poet and writer , where he simply ‘ stepped off the bus one day and forgot to get on again ’ in the spring of 1938 . |
| 6 | And it is HarperCollins which is publishing the Collins Cobuild Concordance Samplers . |
| 7 | It is Wales which has produced a health planning strategy . |
| 8 | Yesterday we discovered that it is Portugal which dictates the pace now . |
| 9 | When the trend went into reverse , it was London which fell first and furthest . |
| 10 | But it was Indica which seemed to most disturb the paper . |
| 11 | Ironically enough it was Helsinki which introduced the change . |
| 12 | School Mission had first been conceived by Edward Thring , headmaster of Uppingham , but it was Eton which opened the first club in 1880 , followed by Harrow in 1883 . |
| 13 | In the event it was Alaska which became the 49th State of the Union ( in 1959 ) but it could easily have been Coca-Colonial Britain . |
| 14 | It was CIPP which first recommended the abolition — announced earlier this week — of the controversial system of crime screening , by which many offences were not investigated because of a lack of evidence . |
| 15 | ‘ Of all the provincial cities we visited regularly it was Manchester which continued to supply forbidden stories on a lavish scale . |
| 16 | Despite warnings , Mrs Thatcher stressed her leadership role in Europe , saying that it was Britain which had put up an alternative scheme to the Delors plan and had taken the initiative over the idea of associate EC status for East Germany . |
| 17 | Despite warnings , Mrs Thatcher stressed her leadership role in Europe , saying that it was Britain which had put up an alternative scheme to the Delors plan and had taken the initiative over the idea of associate EC status for East Germany . |
| 18 | It was Britain which had made sure finance ministers would be at the summit so the recovery talks can go ahead , he said . |
| 19 | It was Germany which had pressed hardest for more powers to be granted to the European Parliament at the expense of the national parliaments as the price for monetary union on German terms . |
| 20 | Of course it was England which gave cricket toAustralia . |
| 21 | The latter 's favourite hunting box was Knepp Castle near West Grinstead ; so fond of it was he that he eventually seized it from William de Braose , an action hardly guaranteed to increase baronial support ; when the French invaded England in 1216 to support the barons against John , it was Sussex which bore the brunt . |
| 22 | Allegations that Kuwait had moved into Iraqi territory were " a falsification of reality and a resumé of inverted truths " because it was Iraq which had a " full history of violations of Kuwaiti territories " . |
| 23 | IT WAS BNFL which drew the applause at Buxton at the end of the Company-sponsored Quest for New Musicals , which has been described as a ‘ resounding success . ’ |
| 24 | In Coventry , Salmon is reported to have committed ‘ wicked Swearing , and uncleaness , which he justified and others of his way , That it was God which did swear in them , and that it was their liberty to keep company with Women , for their Lust ’ . |
| 25 | This brings us near to the suggestion that it was Massalia which provided the Celtic chieftains with a new , more exciting , way of getting drunk at their famous hierarchically organized banquets : wine made mead and beer less prestigious . |