Example sentences of "it [is] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it 's the educated women who suffer . |
| 2 | And it 's the Liberal Democrats , friends , that have got the best policies on these things . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It 's the unsocial hours we have to work . ’ |
| 5 | Cos it 's the solid ones . |
| 6 | It 's not your favourite sport it 's the hunky wrestlers themselves , that 's your favourite sport ! |
| 7 | It 's the political tactics of divide and conquer , you see ? ’ |
| 8 | But it is n't ; it 's the good rounds that bring you back . |
| 9 | But it is n't ; it 's the good rounds that bring you back . |
| 10 | And , go through the enabling factors first , they 're very very straightforward , it 's the motivating factors which are more complex . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's the small things that matter , ’ she said . |
| 13 | ‘ She told me to get the small details right from the start — things like hair , clothes , likes and dislikes — because it 's the small details that define an individual . ’ |
| 14 | It 's the small details and unusual pieces like these that give their home its character and strongly individual style . |
| 15 | If the new , friendlier systems do come onto the market , and if they 're bought as presents and so on , and they get into the homes and they get into the schools , then people will just learn to use them , and it 's the existing professionals who may have to change their habits to accommodate . |
| 16 | ‘ Oh , Mrs Dinah , I would not have done so , but it 's the poor children . |
| 17 | I mean it 's the individual animals that have these properties are the ones that survive . |
| 18 | It 's the elder statesmen of tennis who reckon Tim Henman is Britain 's young pretender . |
| 19 | Well because there is er an industrial bias , erm what industrial bias means is that gets subsidized because it 's subsidized they can pay higher wages er erm so it 's not just the government jobs that are well paid it 's the industrial jobs . |
| 20 | It 's the brusque boulevards of the imagination ; it 's that untaken , sauntering path between toupeed cottages ; it 's the trompe l'oeil cul-de-sac which bluffs you into the belief that you 're entering some smart avenue . |
| 21 | And so i i it 's the four organizations together , a and they have in fact come together in order to , to be able to put larger orders , and to pay in advance , so that people are able to budget . |
| 22 | I mean , it 's like the change of a crew one way or the other , it was fat or heavy it 's , you know , it 's the eight guys that are there and those are the eight best men that Oxford have and I think we have the best crew with those eight people . |
| 23 | In the same way , it 's the heathen elements of Pop that trouble the sober-minded rock fan , keen to see through the superficial , engage with the depth of an artist , |
| 24 | Whatever the truth , it 's the all-mahogany Customs that have escaped the attentions of guitar-fakers , who often take a mid-'50s gold-top , strip the paint off , rout it for PAFs , refinish it sunburst and try to pass it off as a late-'50s Les Paul Standard . |
| 25 | It 's the nice ones that leave their drink there . |
| 26 | because it 's the pleasant times that you remember . |
| 27 | It 's the dirty bits that make the world go round , do n't you find , General ? |
| 28 | It 's the ordinary folks at home who vote you into office , remember — and out of it . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | It 's the other trappings that I find irksome — particularly the Union Jack . |