Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [Wh adv] it [be] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can now see clearly why it is that once great state dominations appear which have the means to minutely command and control the lives of their citizens , those citizens can relieve themselves of the discomfiting need to exercise personal self-restraint or economic forethought for the simple and adequate reason that the state now exercises these ungratifying functions for them . |
| 2 | I sat in the arm-chair , gazing at the bed , wondering drearily why it was that you could n't crawl away anywhere and hide , why there were always people wherever you went , new people to get involved with and to create new meshes of unhappiness and responsibility . |
| 3 | I wonder just how it is that the Daily Sport can advertise and sell Love Hearts , while youths who get caught selling counterfeit Es get arrested and charged with deception or ‘ going equipped to cheat ’ ? |
| 4 | The Miller knows himself : He recognizes too how it is that that his tale may offend the Reeve , and responds to the Reeve in conciliatory terms : Most pertinently , he eschews the generalization of the fabliau image of the world : The Reeve , too , in his Prologue , speaks more in relative than in absolute terms . |
| 5 | His sally at Descartes when he remarks that there has never been a complete sceptic goes to the heart of the issue and it was David Hume , arch sceptic , who wondered aloud why it was that his scepticism vanished whenever he left his study . |
| 6 | If we could say ‘ I know ’ only when we could also say exhaustively how it is that we know , it would create just as much a problem for the sophisticated philosopher as for those of us who are simpler . |