Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [be] [pron] that you [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Joan , how is it that you know — about things like that ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ And how is it that you know about it ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ If he 's so untrustworthy then how is it that you know him ? ’ she asked with shaky triumph . |
| 4 | Gentle readers did not want their poetry linked with what amounts to sociology ; with his taste for ‘ interviewing ’ the practitioners of strange trades like the Leechgatherer and asking ‘ How is it that you live and what is it you do ? ’ |
| 5 | Their mere existence fascinated him — ‘ an old man was ’ — and the question addressed to the Leechgatherer : ‘ How is it that you live ? ’ is not really a question about sources of income . |
| 6 | How is it that you do n't know and in your letter to me you said this trust did not know where that money had been withdrawn at the same time Andrew director of Eastern Arts was quite happy to write to me to tell me why he was quite happy to tell the press over the phone why how is it the trust did n't know ? |
| 7 | How is it that you have no faith ? |
| 8 | How is it that you have no faith ? |
| 9 | Jacob is not dealing with a demon , and when the answer to his question comes , together with the dawn , he knows that himself for certain : ‘ Why is it that you ask my name ? ’ |
| 10 | And she came to Whitfield , and she said Mr Whitfield , why is it that you keep on preaching on this , and you keep on using this text , and keep on saying you must be born again ? |
| 11 | Why is it that you have everything but , there you are , there you are they 're cheap too are n't they ? |