Example sentences of "[noun sg] it [be] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The only people who are are the politicians whose job it is to sort this crisis out . ’ |
| 2 | Certainly few people in the West , even the intelligence agencies whose job it is to monitor such dissidence , had much idea of the latent forces that this choice in the wilderness represented in Iran itself . |
| 3 | Even the Nato arms controllers meeting in Vienna , whose job it is to negotiate East-West reductions in conventional armed forces , can only pursue their objectives on the basis of confrontation between their alliance and the Warsaw Pact . |
| 4 | He could even turn up as one of soccer 's infamous ‘ jobsworths , ’ the stony-faced commissionaires whose job it is to keep ticketless journalists in a state of blind panic . |
| 5 | So clueless and misguided are these sorry types — so lacking in insight , intent and , bloody hell , a sense of humour — that if a great comedy show ever makes it to TV List magazine it can only be DESPITE the pony-tails whose job it is to shepherd these things to a laff-hungry public . |
| 6 | The two were never in danger and were helped down the trail by the men whose job it is to protect all presidents and vice-presidents . |
| 7 | I once saw a woman whose job it was to make small bar magnets from steel blanks about two inches long . |
| 8 | The money dispensers in the capital could only be approached through their acolyte , whose job it was to demand some offerings and make the right moves to ensure success . |
| 9 | The size and price of Sharp 's range of pocket LCD TVs confirm what a nonsense it is to predict large panel screens to hang on the wall are ‘ just around the corner ’ . |
| 10 | In this instance it was to create another car access route to the Murrayfield Stadium for the visit of Billy Graham , the crowd gathering evangelist . |
| 11 | A case of gamekeeper turned poacher , given that she had been a fast-stream entrant to the Treasury , much of whose function it is to resist that sort of demand . ’ |
| 12 | It is an increasingly competitive market and conference organisers whose function it is to provide complete package deals for buyers are continually looking for new hotels and venues that can provide something different every year . |
| 13 | These models and requests can be communicated throughout the network to specialist nodes containing data and techniques whose purpose it is to establish those answers . |
| 14 | But this time it was to shove fifty U S dollars into my hand . |
| 15 | Each team is composed of a group of people from a particular ‘ faulty ’ area , whose task it is to resolve any problems once and for all . |
| 16 | Management as a process appears to be understood as being about taking decisions which will be more likely to be unpopular than those taken by lower ranks , i.e. , middle managers , whose task it is to mediate higher decisions by making them palatable in some way . |
| 17 | On Aug. 13 the Soviet Union responded coolly to Saddam 's " peace initiative " of the previous day , and on Aug. 17 Shevardnadze said in Moscow after talks with West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher that the Security Council could soon assume a military role which could bring a rapid resolution of the crisis ; the Security Council Military Staff Committee , he said , was the body whose task it was to co-ordinate military measures . |