Example sentences of "it is [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nokia Oy , Helsinki says that it is increase its capital base with an international placing of about $100m of new preference shares ; no details yet . |
| 2 | As it is professionals who generally define what they regard as ‘ normality ’ , this allows limited scope to negotiate flexible boundaries to accommodate a range of perspectives . |
| 3 | It is Piaget who needs some philosophical help , not the six-year-old . |
| 4 | ‘ If it is defenders we need , who will lead until we can join them ? ’ |
| 5 | Although that has meant that not much can be done , in principle it is a good idea in that it forces underwater sites to compete with land sites for funding , and tends to keep the attention on the point that it is archaeology we are talking about . |
| 6 | In the New Testament it is Paul who develops the concept of salvation in terms of justification . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | Incidentally , in this area , it is Darwin who is derivative of the moral philosophers and not as is commonly supposed , largely I think because of the work of Spencer , the other way around . |
| 10 | ‘ People look for new ways to supplement their income and it is employers who feel the pinch . ’ |
| 11 | The narrator ( of the Morgans ) is called Arthur and it is Arthur who survives the death of Philip and goes on to become a writer of some undefined kind on the model of David Copperfield and Great Expectations . |
| 12 | But it is Day-Lewis who dominates everything as he races around , long locks flowing and trusty musket in tow . |
| 13 | IN the second movement , it is Pople who is the slower , and his tempo might be similarly questioned as being too slow for an Allegretto , though both are very persuasive , with the opening horn solo ravishingly played in each . |
| 14 | In Barker 's words , ‘ it is Mill who serves , in the years between 1848 and 1880 , as the bridge from laissez-faire to the idea of social readjustment by the State , and from political Radicalism to economic Socialism ’ . |
| 15 | But , remember , it is Colin who calls the shots . |
| 16 | It may be said , then , that it is China who again , and at this point , determined the fortunes of Vietnam . |
| 17 | Yet it is sacrifice which is offered in delight . |
| 18 | It is Morrissey himself who is being warped , twisted and cheated by the media . |
| 19 | But it is Jonny who is the driving force , the black leather jacket may have gone , the cowboy boots were nowhere to be seen yesterday , but the earring is still in place and so is the intensity which stunned Cambridge two years ago . |
| 20 | But they hold it is witchcraft which singled out this particular victim for attack and made him the target of the animal 's assault . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | How can man make history if at the same time it is history which makes him ? |
| 24 | ( 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 . |
| 25 | It is Ego which drives us to be dutiful and fulfil false obligations . |
| 26 | ‘ Liam Devlin , if it is Devlin they choose , is hardly going to parachute into the courtyard at St Mary 's Priory tomorrow night , Jack , and if he did , so what ? |
| 27 | ‘ Of course , the more snow , the more avalanches come down on to roads and into the valleys , but it is skiers who are normally most at risk . ’ |
| 28 | Throughout , our view has been that it is teachers who are closest to children , and together with parents they are responsible for deciding how to use the tools at hand . |
| 29 | It is contract it 's a monthly contract you work for three weeks for one pound sixteen shillings and at the end of the month they count all the slates you 've done during the month . |
| 30 | ( 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 . ’ |