Example sentences of "[adv] [vb mod] it [be] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 It follows that because a practice may work well in one country , there is no guarantee that it will continue to do so should it be transferred elsewhere , especially if it conflicts with indigenous traditions and social values .
2 If the use of a drug seemed appropriate , what dose should be used , and for how long should it be continued ?
3 However , it is a move fraught with problems as our writers explain How long can it be taken as read ?
4 Not only can it be introduced by contaminated water changes but it is also self-generated as part of the biological filtration cycle .
5 When the heat has appeared how best should it be taken away — by pressurised water , by steam , by liquid sodium or by carbon dioxide ?
6 How easy would it be to fit a Series III dash ( complete ) to my 1974 Series III lightweight .
7 No longer can it be described as the sick man of the industry ’
8 The more the issue is thus narrowed , the more exactly can it be handled : but also the less closely does it correspond to real life .
9 How effective do you consider this means of presentation and how widely could it be applied to other discourse types ?
10 How far should it be taken in respect of information handling ?
11 How far can it be predicted , prevented and treated ?
12 Now can it be said to be clear by the law of Scotland that the locus here is beyond what the legislature may assert right to affect by legislation against all whomsoever for the purpose of regulating methods of fishing ?
13 The wider the areas covered by the theory , the less certain is the theory 's explanation likely to be and the more tentatively will it be held by the scientific community .
14 But investment at Bristol can not be isolated from the wider national context and large questions such as what is the role of higher education in national life , how may it be expanded , who should pay and how ?
15 How must it be to tend your bit of land and sow crops and vegetables and perhaps rear animals , knowing you were building up a comfortable home and an inheritance for your children and then see your children taken and forced into slavery by the Robemaker ?
16 How must it be to work here day after day , month after month , knowing there was no end to it ?
17 But how should it be done ?
18 However , beyond the question of the character , quality and impact of such particular ideas are two more fundamental questions about LEA policy in general : how should it be arrived at , and on what should it focus ?
19 If it is unfair , how should it be changed and why ?
20 How should it be managed ?
21 Is any provision required , and if so , how should it be measured ?
22 How might it be changed ?
23 What is tissue culture and how might it be used ?
24 And if it had to be done in the public sector then could it be done by a separate hived-off body or by a department ?
25 What problems do they present for the Sinclair and Coulthard coding system and how could it be adjusted to cope with them ?
26 And so how could it be poisoned ? ’
27 But it was too sweet , Léonie thought : how could it be called dying , most intensively living more like .
28 Oppressed me — how could it be moved ?
29 The novels that have moved me most ( Tillie Olsen 's Yonnondio , F. M. Mayor 's The Rector 's Daughter , Alice Walker 's The Colour Purple ) leave me with the impression that a miracle has happened — a ‘ How could it be done ?
30 Richard evidently felt that memory must keep to its place , otherwise how could it be measured accurately ?
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