Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [adj] it [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That is what she has asked me to try and find out , ’ said Melissa , acutely aware of how absurd it must sound . |
| 2 | Intuitively she felt the depths of the anguish he 'd suffered , knew without having to be told how hard he had struggled to help his sister , understood how devastating it must have been for him to realise she 'd gone beyond his help . |
| 3 | How odd it must feel to be a stranger in an alien country , where even the faces on the stamps had no meaning . |
| 4 | I told myself I could live with the thought of having just a small part of your life and love , but when you put it into words a few moments ago I could see how awful it would have been . |
| 5 | But equally , how presumptuous it would have been if he had not believed it after Christ had spoken it . |
| 6 | Weber actually recognized that the distinction between politics and administration can not withstand philosophical scrutiny : ‘ Every problem no matter how technical it might seem , can assume political significance and its solution can be decisively influenced by political considerations ’ ( Diamant , 1963 , p. 85 ) . |
| 7 | How haughty it would seem to refuse the aid of a Brother … so that others must inconvenience themselves by fishing him from the void . |
| 8 | So imagine how luxurious it must feel to sleep on one . |
| 9 | ‘ Vengeance , ’ said Huy , meaning it , but speaking the word before he realised how theatrical it must sound . |
| 10 | And how empty it would seem , compared with the spring of this year when she had put the tall forsythia stems in the black glass vase in Luke 's office . |
| 11 | Locally-born actress Rhian Morgan said she was delighted to be surrounded by such an ‘ ocean of Welshness ’ at the festival , but realised how empty it would seem after the festival was over . |
| 12 | And yet he could see how different it must have looked in the summer , how it would have appealed to Alex at the beginning of his supposed new start , and to Lesley-Jane in the throes of her first grown-up affair . |
| 13 | How marvellous it was to be free ; how appalling it would have been to have had to wash some man 's socks and cope with his whingeing children . |
| 14 | It is something of a family tendency to think everything is enormously exciting no matter how ordinary it might appear to others . |
| 15 | He had forgotten how humid it could get in Beirut at that time of year . |
| 16 | When I originally found the frame I thought how pretty it would look if the green of the surround was carried through to the mount and the colour of the picture . |
| 17 | Imagine how good it would feel to harness that power and use it when things are at their very best . |
| 18 | How happy it would have made her at any other time . |
| 19 | How glorious it must have been when its mosaic , created in 1371 by Venetians using Bohemian glass , was newly installed . |
| 20 | Probably I do n't know how successful it 'll work but if I do n't record conversations |
| 21 | She says the volunteers who answer the phone are prepared to deal any problem a child contacts them with , no matter how small it may seem . |
| 22 | Please forward any information , no matter how insufficient it may seem to ‘ Greater broad backed bookworm enquiry ’ QPBC bookstall . |
| 23 | Perhaps , like me , they were waiting to see how crazy it would get . |
| 24 | She said how convenient it would have been for her , instead of having to wait for chaps to go out and kill rabbits and deer and all that , and for the peasants to bring in the vegetables ; she 'd much rather have been able just to nip down to the shops and buy what she needed , when she needed it . |
| 25 | Prompt antibiotic treatment , aggressive resuscitation , and debridement of the surgical wound , no matter how clean it may appear on the surface , is essential for successful management . |
| 26 | It was not until 1961 , when he settled in a village , that he realized just how big it could grow . |
| 27 | When the Civil Service proceeded to the first comprehensive retirement programme in the 1850s , the justification for imposing the cowardly administrative convenience of an age barrier was how invidious it would have been to attempt any form of assessment . |
| 28 | ‘ Everyone should be particularly vigilant and report anything of a suspicious nature immediately , no matter how trivial it may appear to be , ’ said Beardall . |
| 29 | It is only necessary to reverse the meaning of the sentence to realize how difficult it would have been for Baldwin to have given a negative answer . |
| 30 | ‘ I think you deserve more than a certain amount of punishment for making me wet and nearly giving me a heart-attack — Do you know how difficult it would have been to get an ambulance out here to you ? ’ |