Example sentences of "[Wh adv] is [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Sometimes we are on call at someone else 's house , and a call is referred from a dog-owner and a relative hears us saying , ‘ And how is his third leg ? ’
2 How is he these days ?
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 How is it that love and hate live so close together within one pulsing heart ?
5 Or how is it that faith and uncertainty are automatically associated with each other while knowledge is regarded as certain and therefore different ?
6 How is it that faith has been so divorced from knowledge ?
7 How is it that Television South West passed the quality threshold , offered by far the most money but still lost ?
8 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 ?
9 And how is my dear friend Monsieur Martin ?
10 ‘ So tell me — how is my lovely Lotta ?
11 How is my little Eetzky today ?
12 " And how is my little horse-thief ? "
13 Tell me , " he enquired solicitously , " how is your farting boxer today ? "
14 To ask , ‘ Are you happy ? ’ is ultimately to ask the question , ‘ How is your inner life before God ? ’
15 How is your poor mother ? ’
16 How is your young brother ? ’
17 How is , how is your present darling ?
18 How is your little Nonconformiste ? ’
19 When is your next child to be born ?
20 When is our final meeting to be ? ’
21 Where is your usual escort ? ’ asked Damien , smiling and showing his crowded , carious teeth .
22 Mum but where is my other half because I want another bit .
23 So if the horse raised the note of the whinny when it was demanding its food , the message would change from ‘ I want my dinner ’ , to ( according to Blake ) : ‘ Where is my bloody breakfast , you fool , I 'm starving . ’
24 Where is my real mother ? ’
25 I tried to phone you during the week and mum said where is my little son ?
26 He talks of responsibility , wrote Goldberg , half-tearing the page of his pad in his hurry to turn it over without breaking the flow of his thought , but where is his own sense of it ?
27 Cranbourne 's status derives from his dinner table , where is he regular host to the Blue Chips , the most powerful and staunchly Majorite group of senior Tories .
28 She said , ‘ Why is there such hypocrisy ?
29 Why is there such disagreement about the cost of monopoly ?
30 Why is there this movement ?
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