Example sentences of "it is [noun prp] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is Piaget who needs some philosophical help , not the six-year-old . |
| 2 | In the New Testament it is Paul who develops the concept of salvation in terms of justification . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But it is Day-Lewis who dominates everything as he races around , long locks flowing and trusty musket in tow . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But , remember , it is Colin who calls the shots . |
| 8 | It may be said , then , that it is China who again , and at this point , determined the fortunes of Vietnam . |
| 9 | It is Morrissey himself who is being warped , twisted and cheated by the media . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 ? |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | But it is Weede who really makes this worth hearing , keeping his balance with ease between sympathy and schmaltz . |
| 14 | This , however , has been felt to be rather ironical since , although he is critical of idealism and maintains a formal commitment to empirical rationalism , it is Hobhouse who in fact calls for the greater degree of state intervention . |
| 15 | It is Benedict who concerns me , yes , but — but that is not the solution I had in mind . ’ |
| 16 | It is Coward who is singled out for specific blame by Durgnat , his screenplay compared explicitly/dismissively to women 's romance fiction as if that , by itself , was a confirmation of worthlessness . |
| 17 | It is Erasmus who gives us an interesting picture of the ordinary people 's homes , and he comments on the custom of covering the floors with rushes . |
| 18 | Obviously , if Jane says I 'm skipping and Mary says I 'm skipping we observe that on one occasion it is Jane who announces that she is skipping and on another it is Mary . |
| 19 | Not everyone understands it is HC which makes people behave strangely . |
| 20 | But because it is Kiev it looks as if many truths , many pasts , will continue to co-exist there side by side . |
| 21 | In mine it is Philonous who finally says , ‘ All right ’ ( though note that it is followed by ‘ but ’ ) . |
| 22 | It is Spain who visit Lansdowne next month before the Republic wind up their qualification programme in Belfast . |
| 23 | It is Pancks who discovers and makes known Mr Dorrit 's right to his inheritance . |
| 24 | And it is Britain she thanks for the startling transformation and thinks will keep her at the top . |
| 25 | Yet years on how come that it is Cecil who is regarded mostly as a flawed but well meaning sweety-pie and Miss Keays as someone who has all the charisma of an old battleaxe ? |
| 26 | It is Liszt who nevertheless looms largest in the anthology , and in whose music I found it most easy to understand Crimp 's belief in Levitzki as ‘ one of this century 's master pianists ’ . |
| 27 | It is not the general who must go , his aides say , it is Tayif which must change . |
| 28 | And to Maijers and other custodians of the pyramid of authority , it is Kanter herself who has the clearest response . |
| 29 | It is Sam who falls with his face to the mud and cries out ‘ There are dead things , dead faces in the water ’ . |
| 30 | In Nina 's stories it is Modigliani who was pushed off the bench , made to carry the beer in for a party . |