Example sentences of "how [be] it [adj] [noun] " 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 ? |