Example sentences of "it [be] the [adj -er] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The specification of a product and the allocation of resources to develop it are the later stages of a series of planning loops . |
| 2 | It 's the elder statesmen of tennis who reckon Tim Henman is Britain 's young pretender . |
| 3 | Here in North Africa , as I 've told you before , it 's the richer classes who shut up their women — the poor ca n't afford to . |
| 4 | It 's the smaller things that get you down — like when I went out the other day to buy a dress for my god daughter 's birthday . |
| 5 | It 's the older designs with low-grade locks that are most at risk : these should be reinforced with special key-operated patio door bolts . |
| 6 | Very often they have a bit of a say in it , because you know that the young girl has n't got , but erm interestingly enough they tend to get recycled to young men and it 's the older men that get the young girls from their older male and it 's younger men who get . |
| 7 | Since it is the larger companies that are included in stock indices ( and the smaller the company the lower its weight ) , the omission of a value for the voting rights is probably not important , except possibly for the Value Line Arithmetic index , which is an equally weighted index covering some 1700 companies . |
| 8 | Predictably , below the top 20 firms , it is the larger firms that have the greater number of listed clients , and there are no firms with fewer than seven partners acting for more than two listed companies . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In some ways I am seen as beyond the pale , but it is the newer MPs who I feel most sorry for . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Today , the forest is at a maximum , so that it is the drier forests that are today 's ‘ refugia ’ . |
| 13 | Second , in many cases it is the poorer countries who will be most affected by the greenhouse effect . |
| 14 | One such change arose because , although in general it was the better houses that were sold , some tenants bought houses , without survey , that were in poor structural condition ( especially prefabricated buildings ) and were soon experiencing difficulties paying for repairs and maintenance . |
| 15 | A study carried out by Kerr for the Department of the Environment found that it was the better properties with gardens that were most likely to be bought ( especially three-bedroomed , semi-detached houses ) while the number of flats purchased remained small . |
| 16 | In the eighteenth century this undifferentiated mass nobility had tended to contract , and it was the lower ranges of this class who , as ennobled civil servants , collected to themselves the influence lost by the great court aristocracy . |
| 17 | In Europe , it was the older trees — over 60 or even 100 years old — that were first and most severely affected by the new Waldsterben . |
| 18 | it it came to be that it was the older men usually that were asked to do it I mean the people I suppose maybe felt it was more suitable to have older folk coming in to their houses . |
| 19 | In short , it was the poorer sections of the working class who were trapped in poverty with little prospect of escape . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Generally it was the younger farmers who saw this as a major factor . |
| 22 | It was the larger farmers who gained in practice , although there is still disagreement over why ( whether seeds and fertilisers are scale neutral , but other inputs are not , or whether high yielding varieties ( HYV 's ) are less robust and larger farmers have the necessary economic and political power to control growing environments better ) . |
| 23 | It was the larger employers of more than 200 workers who had greatly expanded their temporary recruitment since 1980 . |