Example sentences of "[verb] [Wh adv] it be that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One wonders why it is that Lewis could see the reality of this divine drama dancing throughout the pages of the scriptures even though many notable theologians could not . |
| 2 | Do you know why it is that Jean-Paul 's Algerian estates are so prosperous ? |
| 3 | They 'll want to know why it is that Britain 's second busiest airport has once again come perilously close to disaster . |
| 4 | Perhaps some modest help can be obtained from reconsidering how it is that practitioners of quantum mechanics actually go about their trade . |
| 5 | ‘ Can you remember when it was that Angy gave Delia her address ? ’ |
| 6 | When Svidrigailov and Porfiry , who never meet — bold again — and who have nothing to do with each other , both tell Raskolnikov that a man needs air , my business is to try and suggest how it is that Dostoevsky 's reader finds himself in immediate dual touch with a Petersburg july day and a universal truth . |
| 7 | It is also a fact which should be given careful consideration in the attempt to determine why it is that girls rather than boys tend to become anorexic . |
| 8 | And she smiled at Raynor and saw him smile back , and felt renewed and restored , and understood how it was that Bec and the others came to Raynor for help . |
| 9 | In calmer moments , too , she understood how it was that Edward , though generous at heart , found it difficult to give way . |
| 10 | This to-one-side posture of novelist and novel explains how it is that Raskolnikov and Marmeladov are pointedly at a loose end while Crime and Punishment is anything but pointedly sociological . |
| 11 | The Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police might care to ponder why it is that juries increasingly dismiss the sworn evidence of his officers in favour of those accusing them of gross impropriety . |
| 12 | Right , I 've just got a , two or three minutes , I 've just wan na get something quickly done before we , we close and I 'm not gon na look up all the references , because your get them for next week any way in , in the house group , but , now , now in a sense it 's difficult to understand to take all this in after all his God and were people , how do we understand Jesus , it 's , it 's difficult , however knowing something about them does help us to understand something important , it helps us to understand what happened when Jesus ascended , when he went back to heaven , you see when Jesus arose from the earth the , the disciples who watch him it says there in Acts chapter one , they saw him go up in to the heaven , up into you know in a cloud , have you ever thought what that really means what on earth was it , they saw him go up in a cloud , can you image a sort of great clouds coming and dropping down over the mountain top there and was suddenly whisking Jesus up and then watching Jesus going up in this cloud into the sky , I do n't really think it was quite like that , have you ever wonder why it was that Jesus went up in a cloud , you see what was he doing , he was n't beginning a journey to some far off place in the universe , some distant corner where God the father was , he was n't doing that at all , what do you think a cloud can you , give any suggestions of what a cloud might represent because very often a lot of some of the language in the bible is picture language and it , it , it speaks as something else , what do , what do you think a cloud , does any body have suggestions of what a cloud might speak to us about , or speak to us of , sorry , power yeah , any thing else |
| 13 | At this point we may ask how it is that speakers go about creating linguistically the persona which they animate at any one particular time . |