Example sentences of "it is [noun] which " in BNC.
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| 1 | If HaL meets its reported dates , it could beat Sun to market with a 64-bit system — but it is Sun which expects to create a high-volume 64-bit market supplying both its own needs and those of its cloners . |
| 2 | But here it is epigraphy which has added most strikingly to our knowledge : as early as Herodotus ' day there had been Persians with names like Megabates at Halikarnassus ( ML 32 ) , and new inscriptions from fourth-century Labraunda , a sanctuary in Persian-held Karia , attest the Iranian proper names Phrathethnes and Ariarames ( Inscriptions of Labraunda 77 ; 28 ) . |
| 3 | Yet it is sacrifice which is offered in delight . |
| 4 | But they hold it is witchcraft which singled out this particular victim for attack and made him the target of the animal 's assault . |
| 5 | This is humanity 's oft-repeated experience , and in the long run it is experience which really teaches , and no amount of scriptural citation of divinely allocated land will ever alter that . |
| 6 | More importantly , the company 's development people have to be able to handle simultaneously a wide range of projects , often at different stages ( feasibility , formulation development , process scale-up ) and generally on different major compounds ; it is experience which develops both scientific competence and real commercial awareness . |
| 7 | How can man make history if at the same time it is history which makes him ? |
| 8 | It is Ego which drives us to be dutiful and fulfil false obligations . |
| 9 | ( 2 ) … a doctor shall be under no obligation to give treatment personally if such reasonable steps as are appropriate are taken to ensure continuity of treatment , and treatment may be given — ( a ) by another doctor acting as a deputy … ( b ) if it is treatment which it is clinically reasonable in the circumstances to delegate , by a person whom the doctor had authorised and who is competent to carry out such treatment . ’ |
| 10 | It is difficult to research as it is behaviour which takes place in a domestic setting involving powerless people . |
| 11 | ‘ It is prosperity which creates the technology that can keep the earth healthy . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ It is money which belonged to my father . |
| 13 | Personally I do n't think it is traditions which are weighing them down but the fact that they have no support at home . |
| 14 | Just as Wernicke 's aphasia is in some sense the opposite of Broca 's aphasia , so transcortical aphasia is in some sense the opposite of conduction aphasia , because in transcortical aphasia it is repetition which is the best -preserved of the patient 's linguistic abilities , with the patient being extremely poor at understanding speech . |
| 15 | In 1983 gas , coal and nuclear power accounted for 16% , 9% and 1% respectively of energy demand and it is gas which is establishing itself as the most significant oil alternative . |
| 16 | It is conduct which in these circumstances falls to be dealt with in the trial itself by judicial control upon admissibility of evidence , the judicial power to direct a verdict of not guilty , usually at the close of the prosecution 's case , or by the jury taking account of it in evaluating the evidence before them . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | However , it is patterns which matter : 87% of the residents of Northern Tyneside who work , work in the area ; 77% of the area 's work force lives in the area . |
| 19 | Not everyone understands it is HC which makes people behave strangely . |
| 20 | But it is bait which hit back with bullets . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Producing shame , anger , and futility , it is masturbation which , for Lawrence , constitutes the most pernicious evasion of otherness , becoming ‘ perhaps the deepest and most dangerous cancer of our civilization ’ , and ‘ certainly the most dangerous sexual vice that a society can be afflicted with , in the long run ’ ( ‘ Pornography ’ , 3 17 ) . |
| 23 | Thus he expresses the realisation that in the still mourning is a moving power and the lyric ends with another juxtaposition , this time of two positive certainties , of the reality of the vision longed for , and of the recognition that the power to realise it is love which on man 's part essentially expresses its dynamic nature by means of patience , " the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting " . |
| 24 | It is mistake which causes problems . |
| 25 | ‘ I do not know if you are so frank with me because you do not care how I react , or if it is honesty which prompts you . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Mostly it is services which are traded , but goods can be used as well , ’ says Mary Ringland , from the One World Centre in Belfast . |
| 28 | He holds the romantic belief that only the wordless language of music is complete and it is music which has always helped him to live and to write . |
| 29 | It is not the general who must go , his aides say , it is Tayif which must change . |
| 30 | In choosing systems of educating deaf children with signs , it is attitude which has determined the choice . |