Example sentences of "be how it is " in BNC.
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| 1 | And those beetles of yours — the ones that could n't get home because the sheet was moving almost as fast as they could walk — that must be how it is for light moving through our space . |
| 2 | But that is how it is . |
| 3 | This is how it is . |
| 4 | ‘ Look , ’ said Lisa , ‘ I never thought that the Women 's Liberation Movement would be spread by word , rather than action , but that is how it is . ’ |
| 5 | One could say that the pressing question is how it is possible to live , rather than what teleology to adopt ; or at least that the latter does not sort the former out . |
| 6 | Yet this is how it is being sold . |
| 7 | Oignon ( onion ) becomes ognon on the ground that this is how it is pronounced ( what would happen to Inglish if it were spelled phonetically ? ) . |
| 8 | It is how it is determined . |
| 9 | What matters is how it is handled . |
| 10 | But Darwin conceived that natural selection applied to individuals , or possibly to species , and that is how it is still understood . |
| 11 | Inhibition is quite different from suppressing one 's own natural responses , although this is how it is often interpreted . |
| 12 | THIS , SOME would say , is how it is . |
| 13 | By the time we reach the end of the scene we see that this is how it is , for the fulsome praisers of their father put aside their hypocrisy and , left alone with each other , and with us , reveal their true nature , moving down from inflated verse to coldly pragmatic prose : They are not only cold and censorious — ‘ unruly waywardness … infirm and choleric years … unconstant starts ’ — but end by planning some form of counteraction : ‘ We shall further think on it ’ — ‘ We must do something , and i ’ th' heat' ( 307f . ) . |
| 14 | I 'm sorry , but that is how it is . |
| 15 | It is hard to believe that any business whose life blood is communications could lag behind in using modern information technology , but that is how it is with British public relations . |
| 16 | She heard what he said and she thought , so that is how it is , and how it is going to be . |
| 17 | I see , she thought , he is to be the one who is rejected ; that is how it is to be . |
| 18 | And that is how it is , |
| 19 | ‘ But I know that if you are an artist , that is how it is . ’ |
| 20 | That 's how it is between flat mates . |
| 21 | ‘ So that 's how it is , is it ? ’ he said grimly . |
| 22 | Wittgenstein says : ‘ Instead of ‘ I know it ’ one may say in some cases ‘ That 's how it is — rely upon it ’ . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ That 's how it is ’ , they answered , ‘ he 's due to go on such-and-such a date ’ . |
| 24 | That 's how it is between Geraldine and me . |
| 25 | But that 's how it is . |
| 26 | Then it 's quiet again and one of them murmurs , " Aye , that 's how it is . " |
| 27 | There was no emotion in my voice , that 's how it is with people who 've been abused , you talk about it as if you 're just calmly stating a fact . |
| 28 | ‘ That 's how it is . |
| 29 | That 's how it is in prison . |
| 30 | Er and that 's how it is today . |