Example sentences of "[be] it that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Why 's it that stupid colour anyway ? ’ |
| 2 | Why is it that bogus applicants , and even genuine asylum seekers , are given housing when they claim to have no alternative accommodation ? |
| 3 | Why is it that content words tend to be preserved and function words omitted ? |
| 4 | Why is it that Eastern peoples acquire languages so easily while we in the West make such heavy weather of it ? |
| 5 | So what is why is it that labour party oppose education spend ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Perhaps there are so many new routes being done West Cumbria that the writers can not keep up ; or is it that other areas are more important to the committee ? |
| 8 | ( Is it that good colour vision at small visual angles has been more important for frugivorous monkeys than for our own recent ancestors ? ) |
| 9 | Why is it that black kids are so amenable to the influences of their peers ? |
| 10 | Why is it that black kids develop their sporting progress to the point that , by the time they leave school , their educational motivation is rather low , while their sporting motivation is soaring ? |
| 11 | And , finally , why is it that black kids find support for the idea that they have only limited employment opportunities ahead of them , not only from their peers but also from the school ? |
| 12 | Why is it that European companies do not regard looking after their workers well in terms of hours and wages as destroying competitiveness , but instead see it as a way to obtain good work from their workers ? |
| 13 | Is it that English players are not hungry enough ? |
| 14 | Why is it that German competitiveness can stand the social chapter and British competitiveness can not ? |
| 15 | What , is it that fat woman that di spends ages pre |
| 16 | That is , if observation provides us with a secure set of observation statements as our starting-point ( an assumption that we have granted for the sake of the argument of this chapter ) , why is it that inductive reasoning leads to reliable and perhaps even true scientific knowledge ? |
| 17 | ‘ And is it that sublime confidence in yourself that prevents you from marrying her ? |
| 18 | But why is it that Northern towns , like anywhere else , have their monumental civic buildings , public libraries and baths , named after and often founded by the old city fathers , local entrepreneurs , the class enemy ? |
| 19 | ( Why is it that American Football , an infinitely more static , convoluted sport should draw such paeans of admiration from the same sportswriters who condemn rugby union matches for being dull and boring ? |
| 20 | Why is it that structural ageism sanctions discrimination against older people and enables it to continue unnoticed on a daily basis , and remain unchanged over many years ? |
| 21 | Is it that different people are turned on by radically different things , and that many people get some enjoyment from performing routine and apparently undemanding jobs ? |
| 22 | What is it that social anthropologists actually do ? |
| 23 | Once that is understood then the answer to my original question : What is it that social anthropologists actually do ? becomes easier to understand . |
| 24 | Is it that silly cow in the office ? |
| 25 | 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 ? ’ |
| 26 | Why is it that clinical usefulness of colonic pressure measurements remains elusive ? |
| 27 | I think so for two reasons , because erm what was it that one planner said , that planning is the art of which geography is the science . |
| 28 | Why was it that other women did n't mind ? |
| 29 | Was it that alienated man was deaf to the language of the hills and valleys , the forests and the shore ? |
| 30 | Why was it that bad things always happened when you were feeling happy ? |