Example sentences of "[Wh adv] it is [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We will continue to reduce tax burdens on business , as we have done this year for the motor industry , whenever it is possible to do so . |
| 2 | This interaction is often culturally determined and therefore whenever it is possible to extend the previously narrow focus on westernised middle-income parents developing spoken English in their infants , then very valuable information can be discerned in the language development . |
| 3 | painting , he says , is ‘ the only profession in life wherein it is necessary to make this distinction . ’ |
| 4 | Mukerji is not dividing off consumption from production , but showing how it is impossible to account for the development of the latter without considering the history of the former . |
| 5 | The constructivist says that we should regard the problem of how it is possible to act at will as the best philosophical and psychological road to the problem of mentality . |
| 6 | This example shows how it is possible to display the qualities of a good lawyer without knowing much law . |
| 7 | He must also show how it is possible to translate a novel into the visual medium , as a film . |
| 8 | Having seen the Shias in the refugee camps in south Iran and in south-east Iraq , I can understand at last how it is possible to ignore such appalling things . |
| 9 | In the remaining solo items you will hear a magical sense of undulation in ‘ Des Abends ’ and in the central langsamer of ‘ Intermezzo I ’ ( Kreisleriana ) Cortot shows how it is possible to clarify writing which can so easily seem wilfully obscure . |
| 10 | Beatrix Potter 's little books provide a model of the economic use of precise language ; E. Nesbit sets standards of pace , intimacy with the reader , vivid immediacy , and dialogue ; Frances Hodgson Burnett shows how it is possible to hold and express beliefs ( such as the power of Nature ) and still remain in control ; Robert Louis Stevenson demonstrates the spirit-stirring power of adventure , a sort of basic human need to succeed and to survive gloriously ; Arthur Ransome illustrates how a matter-of-fact tone can match the no-nonsense approach of children ; and so on . |
| 11 | They 're not exactly specialist agencies but they have a great deal of experience and they have a commitment to a certain kind of research , and they have , I mean we 've had our run-ins with them as it were , but they have listened , and they 've supported some of our work as well , and I think that they in time will provide a kind of model as it were for a number of erm perhaps less experienced agencies throughout the world , newly set-up ones , as to how it is possible to do consistently good logical rational work in the face of the chaos that a disaster produces . |
| 12 | One could say that the pressing question is how it is possible to live , rather than what teleology to adopt ; or at least that the latter does not sort the former out . |
| 13 | Recently several independent groups , including our own at Birkbeck College , have been investigating this model in further detail and have shown how it is possible to calculate explicit particle trajectories in various contexts , thus opening the possibility of understanding quantum phenomena in terms of the behaviour of individual particles . |
| 14 | The author then surveys the current state of the art of zeolite synthesis and transformation , and shows how it is possible to ring the changes among the component atoms of zeolites — the silicon and oxygen parts of the polymeric framework and the counterbalancing metal ions can all be changed for other elements while still preserving the topology that is the characteristic feature of a zeolite . |
| 15 | To that very limited degree , such a program would avoid the puzzle posed by the Wittgensteinian remark , about how it is possible to locate the right sense without any ‘ conscious ’ access , even in principle , to all the uses of the word . |
| 16 | A second important contribution made by the notion of implicature is that it provides some explicit account of how it is possible to mean ( in some general sense ) more than what is actually " said " ( i.e. more than what is literally expressed by the conventional sense of the linguistic expressions uttered ) . |
| 17 | The following passage is taken from my book ‘ Managing Stress ’ and you will see how it is possible to extract from the text the relevant key words and then to create a thought-flow chart from them : |
| 18 | Our examination of one unremarkable sentence from Katherine Mansfield 's A Cup of Tea shows how it is possible to focus on the stylistic value of a piece of language by comparing with unwritten alternatives : " what might have been written , but was n't " . |
| 19 | Having seen how it is possible to tell a story within a particular sequence , let's take a step back to consider how this might be made to relate to the story of a whole day on the sands . |
| 20 | Certainly it is hard to see how it is possible to regard , for example , check-out assistants as middle class given their low wages , working conditions , and lack of autonomy at work . |
| 21 | Will my right hon. Friend bear in mind that many of us would like to ask how it is possible to contemplate spending an extra £38 billion without increasing taxes , increasing unemployment and increasing prices ? |
| 22 | However , it can be quite useful to know how it is supposed to work , because it may explain what is going on , sometimes … . |
| 23 | After all , salesforce personnel are in close contact with the people who actually make up the market , and ought to have the most detailed knowledge about how it is likely to behave in the near future . |
| 24 | Every fabric handles differently , and the only way to find out how it is likely to drape when made up into curtains is to hold up a large sample and study how it hangs . |
| 25 | The topics include the first design , the sculptor 's aims , the carving of the work , the memorial 's defenders and attackers , and a final general reflection on the standing of great art and how it is likely to provoke opposition . |
| 26 | In this chapter we show first how the age structure of Britain 's population has changed during the twentieth century , and how it is likely to change in the century 's final years and beyond . |
| 27 | To decide , I require not only facts but awareness of how it is likely to feel passing my declining years in that village , and for that I must try to achieve independence of my personal and present viewpoint , reduce it to equality with other viewpoints . |
| 28 | For example , women have described to researchers how it is difficult to cut down on food when cooking for a partner who expects meat with his main meal ( Charles and Kerr , 1986 ) . |
| 29 | In practice however it is possible to have a permanent majority which can deny the protest votes of minorities who are unable to bring about their desired changes . |
| 30 | However it is possible to request a villa close to the centre if you do n't want wheels . |