Example sentences of "[conj] [Wh adv] be it [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What has changed in human relations between men and women , or how is it that women sense themselves differently , such that this matter has become urgent ? |
| 2 | It had to be or how was it that all the banks , shops , factories and insurance companies were still in the hands of Jews ? |
| 3 | ‘ And how is it that you know about it ? ’ |
| 4 | How is it that the tropics generate , or at least harbour , so many species and how is it that these can coexist ? |
| 5 | And why is it that dogs have become one of man 's closest animal allies ? |
| 6 | And why is it that not one of the seven demands of the women 's movement specifically addresses questions of housing ? |
| 7 | The objection may be raised , " If what we are talking about in educational technology is not the promotion of AV aids but the cultivation of a systematic problem-solving attitude , why is it that so many self-styled educational technologists did in fact emerge from the audio-visual movement or related areas , and why is it that so much educational technology literature is concerned with the applications of audio-visual formats of one kind or another to learning development ? " |
| 8 | I am a victim support counsellor and why is it that criminals get all the help you know when they do n't give help to the , the victims of crime ? |
| 9 | And why is it that people always knock on the door when we 're in the bath ? |
| 10 | And why was it that this deep empathy with the hard done by inspired her to give him such a hard time ? |
| 11 | ‘ Tom , dear , by the time I 've asked you to pass something , and you 've said what and where is it and did n't I mean the other one , I can get this oven done and the baby born I should think . ’ |
| 12 | But how was it that the EC opted for a currency union ? |
| 13 | 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 ? |
| 14 | But why is it that there are always fights at family funerals . |
| 15 | Events like redundancy , divorce , bereavement , family and work problems , debts , separation , illness , may be stressful for most of us , but why is it that some people can go through crisis after crisis and never suffer the effects of stress ? |
| 16 | But why is it that we 're called the dirty man of Europe ? |
| 17 | But why is it that the predicate qualifier construction can carry both meanings while the clausal construction fits only the " unacquainted " version ? |
| 18 | By all means let advertisers bring in history to help to sell their wares , but why is it that they so often mangle and corrupt it in the process ? |
| 19 | And I mean , all people do that , but why is it when you 've worked you always seem to get hammered ? |