Example sentences of "be [Wh adv] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The odd thing was , that did n't seem to be how it struck McWhirter . |
| 2 | Bottom Line The bottom line has to be how it operates once it is all up and running correctly , which assumes that , if you have minimal experience or confidence , you have had a dealer set it up . |
| 3 | Now the er th it the resolution does say , where appropriate , and I think that obviously it it 's not inappropriate , it 's not appropriate , to undermine er agreements on the basis of negotiating locally , is what the resolution actually refers to so er so I can see and I would anticipate appropriate would be where it does not undermine er national agreements . |
| 4 | this might be where it happens , you see . |
| 5 | It was about room-sized , and bright blue , which may be why it appealed to the Ixyphalians . |
| 6 | ‘ It might be as well , ’ she said majestically , ‘ if we all said where we were when it happened . |
| 7 | You go in there in the evenings you know when it 's been when it 's been off and |
| 8 | But that 's 'ow it 'appened . |
| 9 | This is how it came about . |
| 10 | That is how it came for Jesus ’ . |
| 11 | Coun David Walsh , chairman of the environment , development and transportation committee , said : ‘ The exciting new element in the introduction of this service is how it fits in with our own plans for modernising and re-invigorating local public transport services so that dependence on the car as the only available means of getting around can become a thing of the past . ’ |
| 12 | Then , putting paid to any ideas he might have , she added , ‘ On condition that that is how it remains : a friendly environment purely for working purposes . ’ |
| 13 | This is how it sounds , so let's see if anyone else is interested . |
| 14 | We 've also been told by our publishers that Back To The Future 4 is gon na feature ‘ This Is How It Feels ’ . ’ |
| 15 | And we 're like that : we write ‘ This Is How It Feels ’ and then we can do ‘ Further Away ’ , which is reminiscent of ‘ Light My Fire ’ . ’ |
| 16 | It 's a long show , nearly two hours , with ‘ Sleep Well Tonight ’ recalling Joy Division 's ‘ Atmosphere ’ , ‘ Sackville ’ suddenly sounding like a massive hit with Tom totally in control of the proceedings , new songs ‘ Caravan ’ and ‘ Skidoo ’ burying themselves in your guts and ‘ Directing Traffik ’ and ‘ This Is How It Feels ’ turning into hard anthems about life in general , not just northern songs . |
| 17 | But songs like ‘ This Is How It Feels ’ and ‘ Commercial Rain ’ might perhaps remind America there is a world away from what Hollywood and the TV likes to project . |
| 18 | You 've never heard a speed-thrash organ pop LP called ‘ Life ’ , never experienced ‘ The Beast Inside ’ 's prog rock excesses and never drifted off to the gorgeous pop of ‘ This Is How It Feels ’ . |
| 19 | Despite the over-arching presence of a sizeable clutch of masterstrokes , the Inspirals manage to deliver a few turkeys — ‘ This Is How It Feels ’ , for all its anthemic pretensions , still sounds like cloying Radio 2 fodder , and arty pieces like ‘ Flood ’ are prone to descend into unseemly pomposity . |
| 20 | This is how it understood Resolution 242 . |
| 21 | What we do not know is how it squares those beliefs with its later beliefs in market forces , the EC and industrial efficiency . |
| 22 | What strikes him of a sudden , as he remembers this experience , is how it had been foreseen and marmoreally recorded by Virgil : as Virgil 's Aeneas left doomed Troy , carrying his household and ancestral gods , so Pound leaves the doomed Rome of fascist Italy , carrying in his haversack his gods — books by Henri Gaudier-Brzeska and T. E. Hulme and Percy Wyndham Lewis . |
| 23 | but I saw him on the television last week , breakfast T V , not last week , week before , just before I got into work , and this woman on the television asking this stupid question , she said why do n't you put any opposition up in Parliament , and he hit the roof , but what the television did , they did n't switch off when he played bloody hell with 'em , excuse my French er President , but this is how it went , he could n't give a damn about you bloody lot , he kept the television on , it just showed his frustration . |
| 24 | I remember that song that you mentioned that you quoted at the beginning of the programme ‘ Look into the Irish , the Welsh and the Scot , you 'll find he 's a stinker as likely as not ’ is how it went on . |
| 25 | Perhaps that is how it began . |
| 26 | Yes , that is how it began . |
| 27 | Even the highly cosmopolitan and very trendy audiences of New York City did not know quite what to say about it ; a typical reaction was from May Okon , of the New York Sunday News who wrote : ‘ Jack Nicholson 's Drive , He Said is how it read on the marquee of the Third Avenue movie house . |
| 28 | There was also Mr Maddern , seated comfortably in the lounge-car as though in the drawing-room of his home-and after 45 trips across the Nullarbor to sell shoes in Kalgoorlie , I suppose that is how it felt . |
| 29 | that is how it seemed earlier this week , as people began making educated guesses about the outcome of the weekend 's referendum . |
| 30 | ‘ I usually only scrub the front tyre when I get into a turn too hot but this is how it goes : You 're in fourth gear and jetting down to this U-turn . |