Example sentences of "how it is that " in BNC.

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1 This to-one-side posture of novelist and novel explains how it is that Raskolnikov and Marmeladov are pointedly at a loose end while Crime and Punishment is anything but pointedly sociological .
2 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 .
3 This means that Locke has not only to substantiate the claim that all ideas are derived from experience , but also to explain how it is that our reason gets from those ideas to certain items of knowledge which others said were innate .
4 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 .
5 Carers and friends need to start where the person is at , and not wonder how it is that someone can seem so upset at the death of a pet and yet apparently unmoved by the untimely death of their spouse .
6 But when you bear in mind the background points ( catalysis , the interaction with radiation , the notion of turnover ) you see how it is that very small amounts of pollution really could have far reaching effects .
7 I have heard of considerably larger numbers being taken by other people but when I hear such tales I am inclined to wonder how it is that so many can become so jammed together without suffocating in such a small hole .
8 It is not a new idea , and it is the only demand around which all women can unite , the demand which makes explicit how it is that the working class is divided between the waged and the unwaged .
9 If we could say ‘ I know ’ only when we could also say exhaustively how it is that we know , it would create just as much a problem for the sophisticated philosopher as for those of us who are simpler .
10 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 .
11 I wonder just how it is that the Daily Sport can advertise and sell Love Hearts , while youths who get caught selling counterfeit Es get arrested and charged with deception or ‘ going equipped to cheat ’ ?
12 In particular it will help to resolve the deep paradox that has already surfaced in this book and will continue to do so : how it is that the same features of individuality can be expressed in such totally disparate forms .
13 James 's aim is the psychological one of explaining how it is that a person is able to locate a stimulus on the surface of his body .
14 Furthermore , Althusser explains how it is that the economy can have some primacy within this structure .
15 It tries to explain how it is that ‘ when you meet a human being , the first distinction you make is , ‘ male or female ? ’ and you are accustomed to making the distinction with unhesitating certainty ’ ( Freud 1933 : 113 ) .
16 Modern instrumentalism has adapted this strategy to explain how it is that the election of social democratic parties into government , or the advent of other coalitions orientated in part to working-class voters ( such as Franklin Roosevelt 's ‘ new deal ’ administration in the USA ) , have not qualified the fundamentally capitalist character of the liberal democratic state .
17 Perhaps some modest help can be obtained from reconsidering how it is that practitioners of quantum mechanics actually go about their trade .
18 It is a research programme which sets out to show how it is that our beliefs about an external world , about science , about a past and a future , about other minds , etc. , can be justified on a base which is restricted to infallible beliefs about our sensory states .
19 We have to produce some account of how it is that a belief can achieve this status and play this special role .
20 But he never explained how it is that we can so easily be led by involuntary desire .
21 First , it is difficult to account for the very different forms of state intervention and political representation if one follows the instrumentalist position , and it is also difficult to explain how it is that the whole capitalist system coheres and is reproduced if the capitalists do not control and dominate the bureaucratic and political levers of the state , as modern instrumentalists now accept .
22 There are important developments on Pareto 's analysis in that Mosca identifies in a more concrete and specific manner how it is that elites arise , maintain themselves in power and are replaced .
23 Indeed , need and dare allow us to see even more clearly how it is that the modals fail to constitute a before-position with respect to the event expressed by the infinitive .
24 The Miller knows himself : He recognizes too how it is that that his tale may offend the Reeve , and responds to the Reeve in conciliatory terms : Most pertinently , he eschews the generalization of the fabliau image of the world : The Reeve , too , in his Prologue , speaks more in relative than in absolute terms .
25 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 .
26 Could I just start with the white paper on community care funding because I think , as he said in the introduction , it is a complex subject , erm , and it does involve a lengthy transition period , and therefore in terms of its understanding , I think it 's important that members are aware both how the money is coming to us , broadly what we 're doing with it , and , and how it is that we 've reached the conclusion that there 's a great under-funding in the , in the present proposals .
27 They were looking for the principles of organisation , how it is that we organise things like dots into a meaningful whole Why is it that we tend to see two lines crossing in the middle rather one two than two V's ?
28 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 .
29 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 .
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