Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [Wh adv] [pers pn] be [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His reference to faith may explain how it is that he is able to conceive of the notion of absolute Truth which he calls God . |
| 2 | Neither of them was capable of searching out any fairy-tale kink in the more drab theories of evolution which might explain how it is that a frog taken ( however reluctantly ) into the soft bed of a princess can be changed overnight back into a prince . |
| 3 | At times when I sensed that the gulf between Jean-Claude and me was so wide as to be almost unbridgeable , I would wonder how it was that our love-making had lost nothing of its fervour . |
| 4 | At this point we may ask how it is that speakers go about creating linguistically the persona which they animate at any one particular time . |
| 5 | Reverting to my opening discussion of the evolution of the ego and superego , we can readily see the importance of these stages and we can understand why it is that the sexual drive should lend itself to such apparently irrelevant associations as the oral and anal zones . |