Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] is [pron] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 So each week we can plot our , our value where this is one , somewhere down here is nought and we would hope to er , eventually get to a situation where our planned performance was somewhere near one so we would be pardon ?
2 So how is it that I , a pensioner earning half that sum , will pay more tax should he win the election than I did last year ?
3 When she had sat down again she said : ‘ So how is it that you 're looking for Elsie now , so long after the event ?
4 So why is it that your company , and certain other major multi-nationals , plan to invest heavily in those countries ? ,
5 ‘ Mr. Smith , I can read everything I 'm asked to , and I can understand all the words , so why is it that I can never work out what the main points are ? ’
6 But no , not only is he or she a competent scientist , but also something of a lab-coat frocked economist .
7 Erm but er unless I I may repeat one or two of the things I 'd have said on the phone I 'm bound to do that , er the three things that are gon na be decided here today really is you if you and I erm you 've got inside information of course , er if you and I agree that er is the is the platform for you to earn some good money .
8 How long is it since they were taught to sign ? ’
9 How long is it since you last had some good , old-fashioned fun ?
10 How long is it since you 've seen Bertha ? ’
11 How long is it since you had a square meal ? ’
12 How long is it since you 've seen her ? ’
13 How long is it since you were diagnosed ? ’
14 How long is it since you last drove a right-hand-drive car on the right side of the road ? ’ he demanded .
15 ‘ And how long is it since you last drove ? ’
16 The first recognition that response is not as it should be immediately conjures up visions of lost working time , expensive repairs , frustrating delays and , perhaps most evocative of all , the thought , ‘ how long is it since I last did a backup ? ’
17 How long is it since I first saw you in the surgery ?
18 How long is it since she died ? ’
19 How long is it since anyone advanced five miles in one day ? ’
20 Er , he 's not gon na give it to you twice though is he cos I do n't reckon he would di give it to you twice .
21 How often is it that I have asked you for money ?
22 The problem with it , so far as we can see , is that if the political system is democratic and the state is relatively neutral then how is it that anyone could use the system in such a way as to ensure that it permanently advantaged them to the exclusion of other actors and interests in the system ?
23 ‘ If he 's so untrustworthy then how is it that you know him ? ’ she asked with shaky triumph .
24 If aggression and violence are part and parcel of what it means to be human , then why is it that there exist societies where aggressive or violent behaviour is conspicuous by its absence ?
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