Example sentences of "[Wh adv] be it [conj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you have a look at the four versions of the videos , I hope what you 'll do is have in front of you er the advocacy criteria guide , which we 'll speak a bit more about in a moment , and actually look and see well , how is it that these people meet , those things , they do n't necessarily but how , how are they persuasive advocates ? |
| 2 | How is it that this problem seems only to have emerged in the last few years . |
| 3 | Why is it that one person reacts differently to another in the same circumstances ? |
| 4 | And you think when , when you get one that 's not as good , you think well why do they why is it that that speaker ca n't give such a good talk , why is he giving a talk ? |
| 5 | Why is it that these molecules were n't discovered earlier ? |
| 6 | So why is it that these views exist ? |
| 7 | Once we have put aside such relatively easy observations as the tendency or requirement for long or complex adjective phrases to occur postnominally , there are two fundamental questions which badly need to be asked about the grammar of postnominal attributives : ( a ) What is the difference in effect or value obtained by the speaker who uses postnominal position when prenominal position is equally grammatical ? ( b ) Why is it that some adjectives ( and some adjective phrases ) can occur quite easily in postnominal position while others , apparently comparable , are limited to prenominal position ? |
| 8 | Why is it that some people find it so difficult to accommodate the idea that providing immediate relief to human suffering can go alongside campaigning for longer term solu-tions ? |
| 9 | However , from our present perspective it is actually more pertinent to turn the question round the other way and ask : why is it that some people , despite having a strong genetic disposition for psychotic illness do not actually break down — or , even if they do , are partly protected from its more devastating effects ? |
| 10 | That is , why is it that some people rather than others who experience the type of disparity described above become committed to a movement for moral reform ? |
| 11 | Why is it that some people have more energy to give to their careers than others ? |
| 12 | Events like redundancy , divorce , bereavement , family and work problems , debts , separation , illness , may be stressful for most of us , but why is it that some people can go through crisis after crisis and never suffer the effects of stress ? |
| 13 | Why is it that those countries can accept basic , decent minimum standards for their people whereas this Government will not accept them for the British people ? |
| 14 | Why is it that this country puts money before anything else ? |
| 15 | Why is it that this machine c c could trim it on all sides ? |
| 16 | And then she checked Well anyway the week after he 'd phoned there was no what you call in it so he wrote it in to the damn thing and said why is it when some people puts adverts in they not only put it in once they put it in three or four times the same week |
| 17 | Why was it that one laugh could make her forget how maddeningly single-minded he was ? |
| 18 | Why was it that this man had the ability to bring tears to her eyes ? |
| 19 | Why was it that this man was such a pleasant and knowledgeable companion , and yet so hard and ruthless when it came to getting his own way ? |
| 20 | Why was it when English people met again after an absence , they talked so determinedly about the weather ? |