Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] it is that " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't know when it is that you 'd like to take this . |
| 2 | Do you know why it is that Jean-Paul 's Algerian estates are so prosperous ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | When Svidrigailov and Porfiry , who never meet — bold again — and who have nothing to do with each other , both tell Raskolnikov that a man needs air , my business is to try and suggest how it is that Dostoevsky 's reader finds himself in immediate dual touch with a Petersburg july day and a universal truth . |
| 5 | Neither of them was capable of searching out any fairy-tale kink in the more drab theories of evolution which might explain how it is that a frog taken ( however reluctantly ) into the soft bed of a princess can be changed overnight back into a prince . |
| 6 | His reference to faith may explain how it is that he is able to conceive of the notion of absolute Truth which he calls God . |
| 7 | In this way , researchers can never explain why it is that wants or preferences manifested by individuals in social and political action are originally formed . |
| 8 | Since these writers retain a belief that the capitalist economic system throws up a responsive liberal-democratic and pluralistic political system , these theorists must always first explain why it is that the military-industrial complex has come about . |
| 9 | Pervasive though this negative tradition is , it does n't quite answer why it is that in a post-Christian society there should continue to be so much indifference to the claims of animals . |
| 10 | At this point we may ask how it is that speakers go about creating linguistically the persona which they animate at any one particular time . |