Example sentences of "to see how [adj] a [noun sg] [modal v] " in BNC.

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1	Yet , unless a real emergency should occur , it was difficult to see how such a government might be brought about .
2	It is fairly easy to see how such a notion might give the behaviour of randomly decaying atoms .
3	If I might turn briefly to see how such a scheme might possibly work .
4	It is hard to see how such a regime could have survived for so long , after bringing such unexampled disaster on its people .
5	The difficulty with such ‘ sympatric ’ speciation is that species differ , not at a single gene locus , but by many genes ; it is hard to see how such a difference could build up if sexual crossing was continuously breaking it down again .
6	At all events , it is difficult to see how such a gain would do more than very marginally modify the picture which has been outlined .
7	In the real world it is difficult to see how such a tax could be imposed or calculated , and it would make much more practical sense to tackle the offending firm under monopolies legislation .
8	It has more frequently been suggested that dilute sources will promote visits to many nowers and thus out-crossing , though it is difficult to see how such a mechanism could arise , and perhaps it is more satisfactory to surmise that visits by a pollen-dusted vector to several flowers on one plant are promoted , leading to cross fertilization of more .
9	But there is also a practical and political problem , since it is difficult to see how such a theory could speak in any way to the practical or material concerns of women .
10	But this merely raises the problem of a definition of " truth conditions " and it is difficult to see how such a definition can steer clear of the question of " ontological commitment " .
11	It is also difficult to see how such a policy will ensure continuity of specialist care , for instance through outpatients , after a distantly-resident elderly person has been discharged from hospital .

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