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 ? |