Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] it [is] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have to produce some account of how it is that a belief can achieve this status and play this special role . |
| 2 | You 're not sure of of where it is that you feel you might . |
| 3 | I shall isolate six points of difference that seem to me important to our appreciation of why it is that children normally find writing difficult . |
| 4 | The appearance of a weaning-trauma in early agricultural cultures explains the paradox of why it is that a loss of the ideal mother — that is , a frustration — leads to an over-involvement with her . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | So if you want to So it 's if you when especially as you 're going to do it on your calculator anyway , |
| 7 | The classification may depend on where it is and what facilities exist to deal with it . |
| 8 | Life-positions throw light on why it is that some people tend to be winners and some losers in life . |
| 9 | Given that this is the case , it is interesting and instructive to reflect on why it is that these people have decided to call us their ‘ clients ’ . |
| 10 | In passing our studies have helped to clear up some of the outstanding biological problems that underlie the reproductive biology of Bufo bufo , such as why it is that the males so greatly outnumber the females , and why they are smaller . |
| 11 | If this sort of account is true to the facts , then it is a consideration against any factual connection of the type Minsky envisaged between conscious access and ‘ reprogramming or debugging ’ , at least it is if lower-level translations normally exist as ( undebuggable ) compilations . |