Example sentences of "is it that " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ How is it that their entertaining is so — er — reliable then ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Oh , you mean how is it that they can afford the pukka style if he is n't successful ? ’ |
| 3 | So standardized is it that it is widely called ‘ the attitude test ’ ( a phrase also used by American police , see van Maanen 1978 ) , and when stopping members of the public constables are routinely instructed by colleagues to give the potential offender ‘ the attitude test ’ . |
| 4 | We find Makarenko by the 1930s writing , ‘ How is it that the resistance of materials is studied in all higher technical institutes , while in the pedagogical institutes no study is made of the resistance of personalities to educational measures ? ’ . |
| 5 | What process is it that goes on in our brains that enables us to recall people and past events ? |
| 6 | So which sex is it that burns with desire for an encounter that can never be ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ How is it that your brother left and never came home ? ’ |
| 8 | What is it that makes this substantial book produce , mixed-in with its rewards and knowledge , a depressing effect ? |
| 9 | ‘ Or is it that it does n't seem long ? he continued bitterly , knowing the futility of carping , but being unable to stop it . |
| 10 | What kinda religion is it that would encourage the parent to shelter the child from any outside influences and punish it by putting it out in a world you never had any way of learning about ? ’ |
| 11 | But why is it that the League 's longest-serving manager , the fan-bashing , clown-chasing old iconoclast at Nottingham Forest , has one of the best-behaved teams ? |
| 12 | Or is it that When the vile or appalling ‘ lies quite close , but can not be assimilated … at the border of my condition as a living being ’ ( Julia Kristeva ) , what is produced is a momentarily heightened sense of one 's own aliveness , teetering on the brink of extinction ? |
| 13 | Or is it that the sudden perception of one 's own constant vulnerability provides , in its black , clouded way , a dazzling , near-religious feeling of revelation — this is how things really are ; that to be born is , by definition , to be a victim ? |
| 14 | Why is it that they bestow their ardour upon the well-adjusted , wholesome architects of pop 's fatal new maturity ? |
| 15 | Why is it that so often we think of pork as suitable only for roasting , for chops or sausages ? |
| 16 | What is it that so movingly draws so many people — his innocent , childlike way , the stony visual he projects , set off against his highly visible symptoms ? |
| 17 | So why is it that your company , and certain other major multi-nationals , plan to invest heavily in those countries ? , |
| 18 | ‘ Is it that you do n't like Lord Christopher ? |
| 19 | Jacob is not dealing with a demon , and when the answer to his question comes , together with the dawn , he knows that himself for certain : ‘ Why is it that you ask my name ? ’ |
| 20 | Why is it that people continue to follow dieting regimes that do not work ? |
| 21 | Is it that you may actually have lost fat but the loss may not show much on the scales because you are retaining water . |
| 22 | But what else is it , Dorothea thought anxiously , what else is it that you are wanting to do ? |
| 23 | ‘ What is it that you want me to do , Isabel ? ’ |
| 24 | And now , she thought , how is it that my world has shrunk to this one room , which is , in truth , rather a nice room , exceptionally light and airy and quiet , but nevertheless a room , one room , instead of acres and miles and countries , of a world . |
| 25 | What is it that you are trying to tell me ? |
| 26 | How is it that eyes or mouths or the most fleeting expression , the merest muscular twitch , rise unbidden to an otherwise fully occupied mind ? |
| 27 | But it needs to be borne in mind , before we embark on the various ways of doing this , that it is by no means a universally accepted need nor is it that every bereaved person with whom we come in contact will need ‘ help ’ . |
| 28 | Is it that you wanted to demonstrate to me how ignorant I am ? |
| 29 | WP Why is it that Czechoslovakia in its moments of crisis turns to scholars and writers ? |
| 30 | Turnout at general elections is seldom more than about 75 per cent so Gallup asked voters : How likely is it that you will go out and vote in the General Election ? |