Example sentences of "how it be that a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | James 's aim is the psychological one of explaining how it is that a person is able to locate a stimulus on the surface of his body . |
| 2 | We have to produce some account of how it is that a belief can achieve this status and play this special role . |
| 3 | Neither of them was capable of searching out any fairy-tale kink in the more drab theories of evolution which might explain how it is that a frog taken ( however reluctantly ) into the soft bed of a princess can be changed overnight back into a prince . |
| 4 | Rain never knew how it was that a man who spoke no word of a foreign language could master the intricacies of ordering a favourite type of beer in any country on earth . |
| 5 | During the long drawn out hostage crisis the American people had watched impotently , wondering how it was that a nation with the supposed military capability to wipe Russia off the map at the push of a button could do nothing . |