Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [is] it [adj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | If the Chinese think it is worth going to all the trouble and expense of shipping this equipment 12,000 miles around the world , how is it that British industry can not make it pay ? ’ |
2 | When , when , when is it free next term , when is the P A free next term ? |
3 | Where is it clear that reliance may be placed on our association with the preparation of financial information , and where that reliance is not justified by the nature of the association , we should take every opportunity to make the nature of our position clear ( for example , in discussing information , prepared but not reported on by ourselves , with a client 's bankers ) . |
4 | ‘ Why 's it that stupid colour anyway ? ’ |
5 | So what is why is it that labour party oppose education spend ? |
6 | That is , if observation provides us with a secure set of observation statements as our starting-point ( an assumption that we have granted for the sake of the argument of this chapter ) , why is it that inductive reasoning leads to reliable and perhaps even true scientific knowledge ? |
7 | Why is it that German competitiveness can stand the social chapter and British competitiveness can not ? |
8 | Why is it that structural ageism sanctions discrimination against older people and enables it to continue unnoticed on a daily basis , and remain unchanged over many years ? |
9 | ( Why is it that American Football , an infinitely more static , convoluted sport should draw such paeans of admiration from the same sportswriters who condemn rugby union matches for being dull and boring ? |
10 | Why is it that clinical usefulness of colonic pressure measurements remains elusive ? |