Example sentences of "how it be that [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a research programme which sets out to show how it is that our beliefs about an external world , about science , about a past and a future , about other minds , etc. , can be justified on a base which is restricted to infallible beliefs about our sensory states . |
| 2 | This means that Locke has not only to substantiate the claim that all ideas are derived from experience , but also to explain how it is that our reason gets from those ideas to certain items of knowledge which others said were innate . |
| 3 | She wondered , not for the first time , how it was that her body could be desperate for liquid at one end while bursting to get rid of it at the other . |
| 4 | Did Paul VI , for example , ever wonder how it was that his parents , belonging to the prosperous and cultivated Lombardy semi-aristocracy , contrived to have only three children , while the share-cropping peasants , the Roncallis , had no less than twelve ? |
| 5 | At times when I sensed that the gulf between Jean-Claude and me was so wide as to be almost unbridgeable , I would wonder how it was that our love-making had lost nothing of its fervour . |