Example sentences of "[Wh adv] it be [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | there 's no , there 's no need to sort of rush at the , I think we wait and see what they 're going to offer us in er whenever it is that it comes up for renewal . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But he never explained how it is that we can so easily be led by involuntary desire . |
| 4 | Could I just start with the white paper on community care funding because I think , as he said in the introduction , it is a complex subject , erm , and it does involve a lengthy transition period , and therefore in terms of its understanding , I think it 's important that members are aware both how the money is coming to us , broadly what we 're doing with it , and , and how it is that we 've reached the conclusion that there 's a great under-funding in the , in the present proposals . |
| 5 | They were looking for the principles of organisation , how it is that we organise things like dots into a meaningful whole Why is it that we tend to see two lines crossing in the middle rather one two than two V's ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Erm how do people sort of beco when you become a member of a group , usually in some way the group changes you as you go through different stages of it , your values may change as a result of interacting with people in the group and th this process of erm somebody 's come up with how it is that you start off in a group , how it is that you become an active member of a group , how it is you may even become involved in the maintenance of the group and the leadership of it and then you sort of die away and that 's the y'know retire from the group . |
| 9 | Erm how do people sort of beco when you become a member of a group , usually in some way the group changes you as you go through different stages of it , your values may change as a result of interacting with people in the group and th this process of erm somebody 's come up with how it is that you start off in a group , how it is that you become an active member of a group , how it is you may even become involved in the maintenance of the group and the leadership of it and then you sort of die away and that 's the y'know retire from the group . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Carers and friends need to start where the person is at , and not wonder how it is that someone can seem so upset at the death of a pet and yet apparently unmoved by the untimely death of their spouse . |
| 12 | But that 's how it is but it says frere in n it ? |
| 13 | in work experience , then you know really how it is and what , but if you did n't wan na do it , then , oh god , be a lot of and like you decide |
| 14 | I do n't know how it is because I have n't heard it yet , but I 'm going to get some advance material any time now . ’ |
| 15 | I could not understand how it was that they were discussing so placidly Jean-Claude 's current compositional ideas for the ‘ Chansons de Mani ’ . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | And how it was that I had rediscovered the gift in pubescence , as if prompted by my burgeoning sexuality . |
| 18 | I forget how it was that I told Maurice Reckitt about it before Eliot , who usually received prior intelligence about my activities in this sphere . |
| 19 | 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 ? |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | But I did wonder , after a year or more , how it was that he and Mme G expected me to use the public baths rather than offer me the convenience of the bathroom in the pavillon . |
| 22 | Can we ask Mr how it was that he eliminated three sectors ? |
| 23 | And er that 's how it was when they were running the coal on , tubs of coal onto it . |
| 24 | ‘ You 've got to get the breathing back to how it was when you were first born . |
| 25 | I told him how it was and he left , walking over to the hotel . |
| 26 | That 's how it was for lots of families in those days . |
| 27 | I do n't know when it is that you 'd like to take this . |
| 28 | She could n't quite remember when it was that she 'd realized Georg took it for granted they 'd get married as soon as she was old enough . |
| 29 | After all , if your luff is flapping you need to know where it is before you can put it right . |
| 30 | You 're not sure of of where it is that you feel you might . |