Example sentences of "it be [noun sg] [Wh pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh well it were painter who died . |
| 2 | Human behaviour tends to be reshaped very quickly with this method … and usually we find that it 's dad who ends up parting with most money ! |
| 3 | But like most families while father appears to be the boss more often than not it 's mother who usually has the last word . |
| 4 | Ironically Leicester are heading for the top using Brian Clough 's style of passing football and it 's Forest who are reverting to more of the long ball game . |
| 5 | It 's martin who wants to talk . ’ |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | Wherever the earth will support life for man , it is man who decides the nature , the extent and the policy of the habitat and life for other species . |
| 8 | Here Lévi-Strauss argues that behind the original question from which Sartre began — how can man make history if history makes him ? — lurks another : if it is man who makes history , how does ‘ History ’ gain its exorbitant status as the desired , unachievable object of Sartre 's text ? |
| 9 | Despite Sartre 's reiteration that it is man who makes it , history increasingly assumes its own ontological status in the Critiques . |
| 10 | ‘ It is man who makes war and man who makes peace . ’ |
| 11 | A lot of Alfie 's adventures are shared by his little sister Annie Rose , but it is Dad who takes him camping , very close to home . |
| 12 | It was opened in 1985 by its owners , Tim and Kit Kemp , and it is Kit who has been responsible for the interior decor throughout . |
| 13 | True , Jack is more famous , but it is Jet who is indelibly linked with the instrument . |
| 14 | In the days of his partnership with Tim Rice , it was Rice who took charge of the " front of house " publicity , handling the round of chat-shows and press interviews with a breezy and plausible charm . |
| 15 | Although it was Church who originally proposed the use of ‘ pinches ’ and ‘ scoops ’ for measuring out the components of salt-sugar solutions for the purpose of oral rehydration , it was BRAC which adapted this method for use by the people of Bangladesh . |
| 16 | And why did it tear her apart because it was fitzAlan who had said those terrible things to her ? |
| 17 | It was Gran who answered , stronger than Ruth despite everything . |
| 18 | It was Finn who showed their rooms to Melanie and Jonathon . |
| 19 | Or was it because it was Finn who kissed her and not a man like the men in whose arms she had imagined herself when she used to imagine things like that , in the past ? |
| 20 | She guessed it was Finn who watched her most , unless the brothers took turns . |
| 21 | He had a winging moustache and a goatee beard but he moved tentatively , uncertainly , and Melanie guessed it was Finn who worked him . |
| 22 | For example , when we complained about our laundry not getting done at the hotel , and about our rooms not being done , it was Sun who went to the hotel and sorted things out . |
| 23 | It was Ten-huc who defused it , perhaps showing that old age brings wisdom even to pirates . |
| 24 | It was Blackberry who spoke next . |
| 25 | It was Blackberry who bullied the stupefied Pipkin to his feet and forced him to limp the few yards to the gravel spit . |
| 26 | But in the end , it was Mum who broke into the circle of silence . |
| 27 | He looked at them in silence and it was Acorn who spoke next . |
| 28 | Er , I think it was Councillor who referred to er looking at your own household budget . |
| 29 | It was Gauguin whom Maugham had made the hero of The Moon and Sixpence . |
| 30 | It was dad who was outside ? |