Example sentences of "be [adj] [verb] [Wh adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The television commentators are quick to say when a referee penalises the attacking team for collapsing in their opponents ' 22 metre area : ‘ Why would the attacking team want to collapse scrummage ? ’ |
| 2 | Into this imaginary world of people unable to learn from their market experience let us now introduce a group of outsiders who are themselves neither would-by sellers nor would-be buyers , but who are able to perceive opportunities for entrepreneurial profits ; that is , they are able to see where a good can be sold at a price higher than that for which it can be bought . |
| 3 | It would not be easy to see how a case could be made that factory employment was an especially health-destroying occupation for adult males . |
| 4 | Er , based on the evidence which the public consultation produced the Committee considered that the primary concern of consumers was to be able to identify when a gene likely to be a cause of concern to a significant proportion of the population was present in foodstuff . |
| 5 | Hence , it will always be necessary to understand how a client has approached a proposed acquisition and to consider the possible flaws or gaps in its method . |
| 6 | By applying such a low EM field to a cell in order to excite it and then observing how long it takes to discharge , it is possible to determine when a cell has become transformed from a normal state to a cancerous condition . |
| 7 | Within such a context it is easier to see how a series of advances , retreats and confusing divisions can be explained as part of a general shift which is of wider significance than the accumulation of a mass of detailed incidents , each of which can only be fully explained in terms of its own unique genesis . |
| 8 | It 's easier to guess why a reduction in market share is taking place than obtain the basic facts and make improvements . |
| 9 | It is interesting to see how a law has so rapidly effected a dramatic and important change in people 's behaviour concerning safety while travelling where even aggressive publicity campaigns apparently failed to make the necessary impact . |
| 10 | It is interesting to note how a horse will shy more on one rein than another depending on which is his stiff rein . |
| 11 | It is easy to see why a girl might come to this conclusion . |
| 12 | It is easy to see why a police officer might take the view that there is no obvious use for a time-consuming and expensive procedure such as an identity parade where it appears that the suspect is known to the witness . |
| 13 | Whatever one man tells another about a woman 's sexual inclinations and whether or not she demonstrates her unwillingness , it is hard to see why a man should be able to rely for consent on the word of another man or why there should be no obligation upon him to consult her himself . |
| 14 | Treitel adds ’ But if a son 's promise not to bore his father is not good consideration ( White v. Bluett above , p. 000 ) , it is hard to see why a mother 's promise to make her child happy should stand on a different footing … |
| 15 | It is hard to see why a code in which GGC means glycine and AAG means lysine is either better or worse than one in which the meanings are reversed . |
| 16 | It is hard to see how a minute understanding of the development of the Greek language from Homer to Demosthenes , or of the keys used by Brahms in the second subjects of the first movements of his sonatas can be fitted into the usual pattern of socially useful knowledge . |
| 17 | And the group 's research officer , Carey Oppenheim , says it is hard to see how a rebate system could be built into metering to help them . |
| 18 | In any case , if such a qualification is called for it is hard to see how a creature with no rationality at all could possess it . |
| 19 | It is hard to understand why a horse will try to run away from a pain caused by a bit or a rough hand , but the fact is that they do . |
| 20 | Mental health professionals will need to take note of the view of the Court that it is important to explain why a doctor who already knows the patient does not provide one of the medical recommendations upon which a section 2 admission ( and also a s.3 admission ) may be founded . |
| 21 | This indicates the extent to which the language test is able to predict how a child 's language will change over time and is referred to as predictive validity . |
| 22 | ‘ It is difficult to assess how a change of manager will affect Darlington . |
| 23 | Children need someone unconditionally and permanently committed to them , and it is difficult to see why a parent who takes no responsibility for a child 's care has a right to prevent someone else from doing so . |
| 24 | Until women are ordained as priests it is difficult to see how a balance can be given to the leadership of the Church . |
| 25 | As a critical or psychological judgement it is meaningless , since it is difficult to see how a conductor can reveal private soul-searching whilst recording the overture to Die Fledermaus or Beethoven 's Seventh Symphony , short , that is , of transposing each piece into the minor and playing it at half speed . |
| 26 | It is difficult to imagine how a business could survive without knowing and forecasting its cash flow , fee invoicing , costs and receipts . |
| 27 | It is difficult to conceive how a glider would have been deployed . |
| 28 | CRP , so called because of the proteinic nature of the C-reactive substance was first discovered when a precipitate was formed where pneumococcal C-polysaccharide was added to the sera of ill patients . |