Example sentences of "why it be that [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I write this I realize at last why it is that her face has kept coming to me in this room . |
| 2 | Naipaul 's readers could well have become inclined to ask why it is that his novels seem to say that there is nothing to be done in , or with , the countries of their concern . |
| 3 | Slowly Sara began to see why it was that her mother was so proud of her nationality , for there was something about these simple Portuguese mariners that inspired confidence and trust , so that she became increasingly sure that her decision to leave home and marry João had been well judged . |
| 4 | Then , even as it dawned on her that the flowers had probably been placed there by lovers , so , as she looked up again into the dark eyes of the tall Czechoslovakian , she all at once knew why it was that her breath had caught a few seconds ago . |
| 5 | His sally at Descartes when he remarks that there has never been a complete sceptic goes to the heart of the issue and it was David Hume , arch sceptic , who wondered aloud why it was that his scepticism vanished whenever he left his study . |