Example sentences of "is [Wh adv] [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is impossible , and it would be foolish , to stop them doing so , for this is how competent language users handle discourse . |
| 2 | We do this in the belief that this is how competent language users handle discourse and that this is the best way of approaching discourse at any level of language development . |
| 3 | What matters more than prior political involvement is how far Law Lords consciously or otherwise are influenced in their judgments by their own political opinions , how far this is avoidable and how far it is undesirable . |
| 4 | All you ever hear is how great football teams like Newcastle/Chelsea/West Ham/Liverpool/Scum have always played ( even Wolves got a mention somewhere the other day ) , & how they always stick to thier principles . |
| 5 | This is why Japanese car factories are known rudely as ‘ transplants ’ : unnatural organs vulnerable to rejection by their new body . |
| 6 | Some countries monitor its use more strictly than others , which is why jaundiced Trading Standards Officers sometimes call it the ‘ Cover Everything ’ mark . |
| 7 | This is why low heat flows are recorded at the surface immediately behind the trench ( Fig. 3.7 ) . |
| 8 | While I suspect that it has absolutely nothing to do with tennis matters , ( although I will seek to justify its inclusion in this column in a moment ) , one thing I have never understood is why long haul flights in airlines are often so much cheaper than those for far shorter journeys . |
| 9 | The correct pitch for any model can only be determined by experiment , which is why experienced contest flyers prefer to have too much negative and ‘ fly the pitch ’ on the way down . |
| 10 | This is why current affairs programmes concentrate so much on doom and gloom , even away from the big stories of the day . |
| 11 | Finally , claims based on public law rights might well raise factual issues more suited to resolution in an action begun by writ than by Ord. 53 procedure ; conversely , claims based on private law rights may well raise no such issues — which is why originating summons procedure is available as an alternative to writ procedure for claims brought outside Ord. 53 . |
| 12 | The important question , however , is why high capital intensity is associated with lower ROI even when market share is high . |
| 13 | That is why National Westminster Insurance Services Ltd. , the Bank 's independent and impartial insurance broking Company , has selected the Family Bond from Family Assurance — Britain 's largest tax-exempt Friendly Society . |
| 14 | This is where good team management would have helped . |
| 15 | It 's got crabs and fish and ducks , and that scorch mark is where Nutty set fire to Tony 's hat . ’ |
| 16 | What is further required is the conversion of the pixel representation to a textual one , which is where optical character recognition ( OCR ) algorithms take over . |
| 17 | Competition is fierce and this is where American marketing methods have to be used to help British products compete . |