Example sentences of "[adv] it [be] [that] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it is that my magazine is being put into a state of hibernation . |
| 2 | So it was that her charisma and undoubted beauty helped to make her the first lady air correspondent in the world . |
| 3 | Thus it was that his greatest hurdle to date had been asking his lordship for a job . |
| 4 | This means that Locke has not only to substantiate the claim that all ideas are derived from experience , but also to explain how it is that our reason gets from those ideas to certain items of knowledge which others said were innate . |
| 5 | It is a research programme which sets out to show how it is that our beliefs about an external world , about science , about a past and a future , about other minds , etc. , can be justified on a base which is restricted to infallible beliefs about our sensory states . |
| 6 | She wondered , not for the first time , how it was that her body could be desperate for liquid at one end while bursting to get rid of it at the other . |
| 7 | Did Paul VI , for example , ever wonder how it was that his parents , belonging to the prosperous and cultivated Lombardy semi-aristocracy , contrived to have only three children , while the share-cropping peasants , the Roncallis , had no less than twelve ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | When they asked him where it was that my father had wanted to build the gallery , he said something like , ‘ Well , you know , it 's that place near the pond between the pond and the obelisk ’ , meaning the Washington Monument and the Reflecting Pool . |
| 10 | As I write this I realize at last why it is that her face has kept coming to me in this room . |
| 11 | Naipaul 's readers could well have become inclined to ask why it is that his novels seem to say that there is nothing to be done in , or with , the countries of their concern . |
| 12 | Planners there began to ask why it was that their residential streets were so dull and so unsafe , and why it was impossible to do anything else there except drive cars , even though most of the time there were no moving cars . |
| 13 | Slowly Sara began to see why it was that her mother was so proud of her nationality , for there was something about these simple Portuguese mariners that inspired confidence and trust , so that she became increasingly sure that her decision to leave home and marry João had been well judged . |
| 14 | Then , even as it dawned on her that the flowers had probably been placed there by lovers , so , as she looked up again into the dark eyes of the tall Czechoslovakian , she all at once knew why it was that her breath had caught a few seconds ago . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Search your pigeon-hole , staff room or wherever it is that your school sends its copies . |