Example sentences of "[be] it that [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is it that they will not be bothered by maximum working hours or minimum wages , or is it just that the trade union movement in this country has been crippled by repressive legislation over the past 12 years ? |
| 2 | ‘ Oh , you mean how is it that they can afford the pukka style if he is n't successful ? ’ |
| 3 | Given the long-standing behavioural problems that the pupils attending these sites have set the teaching staff in schools , how is it that they can be brought together in a seemingly improbable admixture with the results , orderly and controlled , as described above ? |
| 4 | Why is it that they should have had more faith ? |
| 5 | Why is it that we should want to know things that are , in the broad scheme , totally irrelevant ? |
| 6 | Why is it that we can look at organizations which we ourselves have worked in for most of our lives , where we have complained bitterly , where over drinks with our colleagues or at the Christmas pantomime or some other time we have given vent to our irritation at these bad organizational and behavioural characteristics ; and yet when we reach high positions in companies we consider them to be something which is beyond our capability to influence ? |
| 7 | Why is it that we can all recall and retell a story , but find it hard to recall and retell the contents of a textbook or scientific paper ? |
| 8 | So contrasting is it that one may wonder whether its adherents are looking at the same thing at all : ‘ As the eighties unfold , humanity faces a worldwide shortage of productive cropland , acute land hunger in many countries , escalating prices for farmland almost everywhere … ’ |
| 9 | Is it that ye ca n't manage the farm with yer Da away , and ye want me to take charge . |
| 10 | The problem with it , so far as we can see , is that if the political system is democratic and the state is relatively neutral then how is it that anyone could use the system in such a way as to ensure that it permanently advantaged them to the exclusion of other actors and interests in the system ? |
| 11 | How likely is it that he would change his story ? |
| 12 | A top-level sprinter could not be a top-level javelin thrower and even less possible is it that he could reach the top in another sport as well . |
| 13 | " But , Granny , how likely is it that I should find the keys , if all her people are out already hunting for them ? " |
| 14 | ‘ Mr. Smith , I can read everything I 'm asked to , and I can understand all the words , so why is it that I can never work out what the main points are ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Is it that you ca n't think of anything plausible , or simply that you refuse to make excuses for what you are ? ’ he wondered insultingly . |
| 16 | Ann Mobbs , what is it that you would like to see in terms of change for men ? |
| 17 | Is it that you may actually have lost fat but the loss may not show much on the scales because you are retaining water . |
| 18 | Turnout at general elections is seldom more than about 75 per cent so Gallup asked voters : How likely is it that you will go out and vote in the General Election ? |
| 19 | Having read the description of A Touch of Frost , how likely is it that you will watch it ? |
| 20 | Why is it that you can arrive at an aerodrome ( they do not have the temerity to call them airports , let alone international ) with facilities such as NDBs , localisers , clean eating facilities , tar macadam runways , and where landing fees are minimum ? |
| 21 | ‘ Who is it that you can see in the garden ? ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Whose idea was it that you should live here ? ’ |
| 23 | So absorbed , or intoxicated , was it that I used to photograph it with the other hand . |
| 24 | How was it that she could tolerate such noise ? |
| 25 | Why was it that he could succeed in getting under her skin this way ? |