Example sentences of "[noun] it be the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , in essence it 's the small committees at the end of the day which actually find the target and the larger committees at the beginning of the list which do n't find them . |
| 2 | It 's not your favourite sport it 's the hunky wrestlers themselves , that 's your favourite sport ! |
| 3 | However , at British Airways Cargo it is the global implications of the Single Market which are receiving most attention , ’ says Peter White . |
| 4 | Because erm even going back to those days it was the bright ones that were pushed forward and the the sort of dog take the hinder most sort of thing you know . |
| 5 | In the later Saxon period it was the royal estates , particularly the caputs , which developed exchange networks , especially when towns were developed . |
| 6 | Like many of the gentry all over the country , he was convinced that the wound now bleeding Christendom might yet be healed , and the Church , the Body of Christ , made whole ; so when he gave sanctuary to young men on their way to train as priests in France , or secret agents from Spain or Ireland , he did so believing that he was acting in the best interests of his country , claiming that if anyone was a traitor it was the ardent puritans like Walsingham and Drake , who by their political manoeuvrings and piratical attacks on Spanish merchantmen were pushing the Queen remorselessly into a confrontation with King Philip of Spain . |
| 7 | A high turnover of newcomers does not have a serious effect on the community if a substantial group of native families remain rooted in the same spot , but if over the years it is the oldest families that are emigrating then the parish structure will be unstable . |
| 8 | On this occasion it was the well-known communications specialist from New Zealand , Mr William Templeton-Brown . |
| 9 | In actuality it was the poorer peasants who grumbled louder and suffered more from taxation , as Yakovlev was to discover for himself a year later in Tambov guberniia . |
| 10 | New and expanded towns experienced the highest rates of population growth in the 1950s and 1960s , but in absolute terms it was the medium-sized cities , like Bristol , Leicester , and Southampton , which made the biggest contribution to overall population increase . |
| 11 | But realism itself is just a matter of convention ; for some people it is the defamiliarized codes which seem realistic , whereas for others it is the traditional devices which convey a sense of reality , and no one device is inherently more realistic than another . |
| 12 | In the fascist state it is the political police . |
| 13 | In each case it is the revised versions which are to be played in this concert . |
| 14 | Second , in many cases it is the poorer countries who will be most affected by the greenhouse effect . |
| 15 | In many societies it is the older males , including the ‘ head of household ’ who allocate labour , control access of young men to women for marriage , and make other major decisions . |
| 16 | Since we can not count on people grasping much of the words at a first hearing it is the musical qualities which will contribute to the success or failure of a choral piece . |
| 17 | On the other hand it is the larger farms who can more easily ‘ afford ’ conservation , especially on small scale , both in terms of setting aside small land areas for less intensive agricultural management and in economic terms . |
| 18 | As we have seen , in the Third Reich it was the specific circumstances of the rise of monopoly capital , the corporatist state organised as protecting national purity , hyperinflation , the rapid rise in unemployment and perceived threats to the ‘ little man ’ . |
| 19 | In the nineteenth century it was the native inhabitants ' turn , and the Highlands suffered the terrible injury of the Clearances . |
| 20 | But there 's no doubt it 's the smelly ones which will be attracting all the attention when they make their appearance at the Chelsea Show . |
| 21 | But realism itself is just a matter of convention ; for some people it is the defamiliarized codes which seem realistic , whereas for others it is the traditional devices which convey a sense of reality , and no one device is inherently more realistic than another . |
| 22 | While the top three or four companies now seem to be in reasonable financial shape it is the medium-sized firms in the top thirty that are feeling the pressure . |
| 23 | The basin went round again , and this time it was the laughing women guests who were contributing , with squeals of mock protest , urging Marie-Christine to lower her skirt again . |
| 24 | In fact it is the hard men up front who are likely to be given their head , and any idea of a no-strike deal will be ruthlessly opposed . |