Example sentences of "[pron] it [be] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still drowsy and warm from sleep , she lay thinking of Johnny Latimer and whether Time or the house ( for she could not decide which it was that played the tricks and pulled the strings ) would let him come back to her again . |
| 2 | In verses three to five the psalmist reminds us who it is that we are coming to . |
| 3 | I think too that we should reflect upon who it is that receives the blame er when policing falls below the standards which we would all think appropriate . |
| 4 | You know who it is that wants to make money on that ? |
| 5 | For when I inquired who it was that had arrived , Miss Kenton continued past me , stating simply : ‘ A message if it is urgent , Mr Stevens . ’ |
| 6 | Still she wondered who it was that she had been responding to . |
| 7 | Belinda flinched as she saw who it was that had come out of the lift and addressed her . |
| 8 | All the same he had been rather cagey about Ianthe Broome , not saying who it was that had brought the oxtail . |
| 9 | ‘ You remember you asked me to see if I could find out who it was that had sent that news item about Leila in to Al-Liwa . ’ |
| 10 | So the question I am wondering is this : does the person Albie owed money to — the man behind Vinnie Dirkin — know who it was that killed him ? |
| 11 | Then suddenly , while aware she had told him that she did not love Travis , she realised that here was her chance of clouding the issue of who it was that she did love . |
| 12 | Thus , in the following , he can naturally be interpreted as referring to whoever it is that John refers to : ( 39 ) John came in and he lit a fire We will return to anaphora , but just note here that it is perfectly possible , as Lyons ( 1977a : 676 ) points out , for a deictic term to be used both anaphorically and deictically . |
| 13 | I 've then got rolling I A P's with Rob and whoever it is that got to help us with individual action planning |
| 14 | Whoever it was that invented the phrase ‘ architectural antiques ’ is no friend of mine . |
| 15 | But whoever it was that made that claim obviously did not have a school day on which he was expected to use MY brain to do one of Mr Kent 's maths tests ! |
| 16 | ‘ Whoever it was that took her never spoke a word the whole time , which made the whole experience worse . |
| 17 | Whoever it was that was menacing her with letters ( a letter , she corrected herself , but feeling certain there would be more ) , whoever it was that had anything to do with her mother 's death , that person , or those persons , would belong to her father 's age group . |
| 18 | And they had a system where erm they got this information and they It was that they I think there there was something about the time element , it had to happen at a certain time |
| 19 | That 's just me it 's that if your first name , although I 'll probably cross that out . |
| 20 | By the looks of it it is that as I say a screw 's keeping that thing on . |
| 21 | Today we were close enough to the front of the plane to have a newspaper in English , and not have to settle for one printed in a strange dialect of Latvian ( or whatever it is that they use for those that are always left at the end ) . |
| 22 | Well , we do see a good deal of what is around us and not simply whatever it is that we happen to be staring at . |
| 23 | It can be used by anyone to improve whatever it is that interests him or her . |
| 24 | This is why all of us will doubt at some point , whatever it is that we believe . |
| 25 | All over the world , standards of beauty vary ; fat women can become the ideal , or those with small feet , or tall women , or those with blue eyes , or whatever it is that seems to capture the spirit of beauty for a particular time and place . |
| 26 | The basis of their system is self-interest : ‘ Whatever it is that interests the participants , whatever they value , whatever goals they pursue . ’ |
| 27 | Whatever it is that you wish , I am instructed to provide . ’ |
| 28 | His final reflection was that ‘ such a picture can not be defined at all until we find a way of describing whatever it is that makes first-rate entertainment what it is ’ . |
| 29 | A case-study involves the in-depth study of a single example of whatever it is that the sociologist wishes to investigate . |
| 30 | I mean you know , whatever it is that you you you would want I could do er in theory . |