Example sentences of "be it [det] [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why is it that content words tend to be preserved and function words omitted ? |
| 2 | Why is it that Eastern peoples acquire languages so easily while we in the West make such heavy weather of it ? |
| 3 | So what is why is it that labour party oppose education spend ? |
| 4 | But if , indeed , higher returns on retirement can be bought at the expense of derisory returns on death , how is it that terminal bonuses play such an important part in the ultimate returns . |
| 5 | Why is it that black kids develop their sporting progress to the point that , by the time they leave school , their educational motivation is rather low , while their sporting motivation is soaring ? |
| 6 | And , finally , why is it that black kids find support for the idea that they have only limited employment opportunities ahead of them , not only from their peers but also from the school ? |
| 7 | Why is it that European companies do not regard looking after their workers well in terms of hours and wages as destroying competitiveness , but instead see it as a way to obtain good work from their workers ? |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | But neither is it any more enlightening to say , for example , that " x is greater thany " means that if we were to set out to construct x and y by some algorithmic procedure , the construction of x would require a greater number of steps ; for the question is , what is meant by " greater " ? |
| 10 | I think so for two reasons , because erm what was it that one planner said , that planning is the art of which geography is the science . |
| 11 | Why was it that other women did n't mind ? |
| 12 | Why was it that British industrialists took advantage of rising labour productivity to reduce their labour force , rather than to develop new forms of production using more sophisticated techniques and making improved products to sell at home and abroad ? |
| 13 | What was it that last reviewer had said ? |