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I've actually just been looking at so-called "pseudo-cleft sentences" and it seems that some of the examples given by your correspondent are such sentences.
On to or not DC 2007
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In noun predicate clauses, when the subject is a pseudo-cleft sentence, both constructions are possible:
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