Example sentences of "it is [noun] [Wh pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It is Piaget who needs some philosophical help , not the six-year-old . |
| 3 | In the New Testament it is Paul who develops the concept of salvation in terms of justification . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ People look for new ways to supplement their income and it is employers who feel the pinch . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But it is Day-Lewis who dominates everything as he races around , long locks flowing and trusty musket in tow . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | But , remember , it is Colin who calls the shots . |
| 11 | It may be said , then , that it is China who again , and at this point , determined the fortunes of Vietnam . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Thus it is Pippin who looks up at the sun and the banners and offers comfort to Beregond , and Merry who never loses heart when even Théoden appears prey to ‘ horror and doubt ’ . |
| 16 | It is women who have to go alone ; whose lovers do not have the patience to wait at home and pray for them . |
| 17 | Predictably , it is women who can place Izzat most easily at risk . |
| 18 | DEEP THINKERS Forward planning O'Donovan also offers the simple but profound thought that it is women who will be giving birth to the next generation of Rugby League players . |
| 19 | The general division of labour in peasant and pastoral households is significant — it is women who frequently collect water , fuel , forest litter and fodder , and indeed in some societies do most of the agricultural work as well , except ploughing ( as , for example , in parts of South Asia ) . |
| 20 | If the woman does not choose to fulfil this part of the process , then the connection will not hold ; by and large it is women who create the form of the relationship . |
| 21 | It is women who are the regular mail order users . |
| 22 | There is wide agreement that , in such households , it is women who take the main share of responsibility . |
| 23 | One group of people consider fishing men 's work and weaving women 's , while two hundred miles away it is women who fish and men who weave . |
| 24 | But it is women who are more likely to buy things . |
| 25 | The corollary of this is that it is women who are expected to undertake the reproduction of labour-power within the family , whether they also have waged jobs or not . |
| 26 | It is women who bear the brunt of high-rise flats , estates with no open play spaces , inadequate laundry facilities , noise , vandalism and bad access to shops and transport . |
| 27 | For instance , if clitorectomy often known as female circumcision — is a ‘ moral ’ requirement to serve male interests , it is nevertheless women who carry out , maintain and insist upon the practice , and it is women who express their moral offence if it is not carried out . |
| 28 | The health conditions of the vast majority of Salvadoreans can only be described as critical and it is women who must bear the brunt of caring for the ill . |
| 29 | But it still obscures the fact that it is women who are raped . |
| 30 | Over four fifths , that 's two million , of these w of those who the wages c wages are protected by the Wages Councils are women and as there would seem no point in abolition unless the wages were gon na fall , then it is women who will suffer disproportionately , along with another vulnerable group , single parents . |