Example sentences of "[Wh adv] is it [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How is it lethal ? |
| 2 | Just how big is it and how is it subdivided ? |
| 3 | Ignoring once again Honderich 's polemical language , there is an important problem here : namely , how is it that Conservatism can be responsible for what everyone agrees are two very different governmental strategies informed by two very different social philosophies ? |
| 4 | I despise the idea and practice of blood sports , but this violent reaction threw up a profile of wildly inconsistent attitudes which puzzles me ; how is it that fox hunting is legal and fishing is the most popular outdoor recreational activity in Britain , yet badger killing invokes a desire for public retribution — lynch mob fever , almost — over and above the punishment of the courts ? |
| 5 | How is it that love and hate live so close together within one pulsing heart ? |
| 6 | Or how is it that faith and uncertainty are automatically associated with each other while knowledge is regarded as certain and therefore different ? |
| 7 | How is it that faith has been so divorced from knowledge ? |
| 8 | How is it that what seem like random discharges from a part of the brain that we share with the humblest reptiles can end up as the elaborate , coherent , cognitive activity we know as dreaming ? |
| 9 | How is it that Television South West passed the quality threshold , offered by far the most money but still lost ? |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | If the Chinese think it is worth going to all the trouble and expense of shipping this equipment 12,000 miles around the world , how is it that British industry can not make it pay ? ’ |
| 12 | How is it possible for someone to take my or anybody 's sin upon himself ? |
| 13 | How is it possible for Christ 's death to affect me ? |
| 14 | How is it possible to exploit coral reefs for tourism , for example , but also use them as a food source ? |
| 15 | How is it possible to quantify stochastic effects ? |
| 16 | Their objections are : how is it possible to have a single dietary policy for old and young , rich and poor , manual workers and pregnant women ? |
| 17 | How is it possible for a computer to discover things ? |
| 18 | How is it possible to fail every single one ? ’ |
| 19 | Other questions can also be introduced : how is it possible to go on forming such sentences for ever ? |
| 20 | How is it possible for a creature to form means — end plans for reaching a desired object , plans within which other objects are represented as instruments to the overall end ? |
| 21 | How is it possible for an external symbol , as well as one in the internal representational medium of the creature 's mind , to be employed by one animal and perceived by another as a request for a specific tool ? |
| 22 | How is it possible for a creature to perceive apparent movement , or to distinguish visually between replacement , motion , and change ? |
| 23 | One starts from the question of mind and behaviour and asks : ‘ How is it possible for a physical system , the brain , to produce this ? ’ |
| 24 | How is it possible , in a democracy , for a committee of the House of Commons ( the elected representatives of the people ) to find itself prevented from interviewing civil servants when it wishes to do so , or faced with witnesses who refuse to answer questions that are put to them , as was the case when the Commons Select Committee on Defence attempted to investigate the Westland affair in 1986 ? |
| 25 | We can challenge the monist by simply asking " How is it possible to translate a novel ? " |
| 26 | How is it possible to list exhaustively all linguistic features that may be found in a text ? |
| 27 | How is it possible that what will prove to be an act of technological genocide has been carried out in the name of international law ? |
| 28 | How is it possible that the distinction between nation and state still escapes intelligent people on the British Left ? |
| 29 | How is it possible that a black hole appears to emit particles when we know that nothing can escape from within its event horizon ? |
| 30 | With such a clear overview and a balanced feminist perspective in your History of the World NI 196 , how is it possible that you failed to mention the witch burning of the 16th and 17th centuries , when nine million women , men and children were executed ? |