Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [is] it [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ? |
| 2 | How is it that love and hate live so close together within one pulsing heart ? |
| 3 | Or how is it that faith and uncertainty are automatically associated with each other while knowledge is regarded as certain and therefore different ? |
| 4 | How is it that faith has been so divorced from knowledge ? |
| 5 | How is it that Television South West passed the quality threshold , offered by far the most money but still lost ? |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | How 's it going Ton ? |
| 8 | Why is it that marriage should be a relationship of such potential closeness , joy and fulfilment , and yet for so many end up in such unhappiness and hurt ? |
| 9 | WHY is it that hotel owners and operators put so much emphasis on recruiting professional ‘ hotel designers ’ to create the right hotel , but , when it comes to the inclusion of leisure facilities , then they appear to approach any designer , with the impression that it can be addressed from a design viewpoint just like any other area ? |
| 10 | Why is it that prejudice is sometimes a successful vehicle for comedy ? |
| 11 | Why is it that hearing loss can play havoc with self-confidence ? |
| 12 | But finally , why is it that game show contestants are never UNEMPLOYED ? |
| 13 | But why is it that AIDS victims suffer from such obscure infections ? |
| 14 | Conversely , why is it that finance managers seem to think they have a monopoly on numeracy ? |
| 15 | Why is it pure gin ? |
| 16 | it is all wrong , cos I says to Stuart we had , we were at him Monday , I says why is it this year I says I get a , a thing to go to court on Monday , I says and yet last year I says I did n't pay mine till end of February she says oh well they 're getting stricter this year she says , oh you 've got a court thing fifteen pound and I says yeah and she says paying that , I said no I 'm not paying that cos I pay what I owe , I said but I 'm not paying the fifteen pound court cost |
| 17 | Then Harriet Shakespeare said , more softly and sounding puzzled , ‘ So why is it any use talking to me ? |