Example sentences of "how [verb] it [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | How did you how d how did it arise that there was this degree of cooperation ? |
| 2 | But how did it happen that the Davy miner 's lamp worked out so well for the owners and so badly for the miners ? |
| 3 | That being the case how did it happen that a system which worked so ill had not been altered long ago ? |
| 4 | How does it show that they arrived on Planet Zog today ? |
| 5 | And , further , how does it appear that the testator 's implied request , if it could be implied , or his promise , if that promise alone would suffice , or both together , were intended to cause the marriage , or did cause it , so that the marriage can be said to have taken place at the testator 's request , or , in other words , in consequence of that request ? |
| 6 | How does the bird manage to identify part of the scene as a fish , or as food , in the first place , and how is it thereupon led to take appropriate action ( that is , how does it know that it should dive , irrespective of how steep the dive should be ) ? |
| 7 | How does it happen that these stimuli are so arranged in space that the right kinds of cells appear in the right places ? |
| 8 | But how does it happen that you did n't know they were leaving ? |
| 9 | How does it happen that each of us hears them in his own native language ? |
| 10 | For example , how does it happen that I married a good Catholic at seventeen and here I am at thirty-something , childless ? |