Example sentences of "understand [Wh adv] it be [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could not understand how it was that they were discussing so placidly Jean-Claude 's current compositional ideas for the ‘ Chansons de Mani ’ . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Naturally June could n't understand why it was that I went on cutting her . |
| 4 | It is difficult for us now to understand how it was that so many serious thinkers in those days were prophetically-minded . |
| 5 | This may help us to understand why it is that the family was never more expertly advised , psychoanalysed and researched , yet never has it fallen apart more dramatically than in the last generation . |
| 6 | And she smiled at Raynor and saw him smile back , and felt renewed and restored , and understood how it was that Bec and the others came to Raynor for help . |
| 7 | In calmer moments , too , she understood how it was that Edward , though generous at heart , found it difficult to give way . |