Example sentences of "[conj] it be [adj] [verb] what " in BNC.
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| 1 | There must , therefore , be a mental element in the " unlawful act " , though this proposition is not always stated in the cases ( see for example , Newbury , where it is difficult to state what the unlawful act was ) . |
| 2 | Although it is easy to observe what is going on in practice , constructing an explicit statement of what the system is that is being considered inevitably gives rise to problems of interpretation and semantics . |
| 3 | Although it is difficult to estimate what positive health benefits for the older person will result from the imposition of a national screening system there will be profound implications for the health and social services . |
| 4 | Although it is difficult to determine what was the original material from which these rocks were derived , the general consensus of opinion is that the original material was of igneous origin , with the old term orthogneiss being used to describe these rocks in the past . |
| 5 | Indeed , in the absence of a codified constitution , it is arguable that it is impossible to state what laws are of constitutional significance without reference to constitutions elsewhere to see what kinds of matters are dealt with therein . |
| 6 | The following table of classifications of errors from test recognition data shows that it is impossible to tell what type the original error was . |
| 7 | Earlier Griffin has bemoaned the fact that ‘ throughout our educational system students are taught that it is unscientific to ask what an animal thinks or feels ’ ( 1984 : vii ) . |
| 8 | I can not stress too strongly that it is vital to know what you are treating , and that unless the problem is obviously pathogenic ( eg White Spot ) or organic ( visible tumour ) then you should ALWAYS suspect an environmental problem , and usually the culprit is poor water quality . |
| 9 | Others are famous or notorious people who generate so many tales that it is hard to separate what is true and what is not . |
| 10 | They have also been attacked by the courts , with the result that it is difficult to see what practical effect such clauses might be thought to have . |
| 11 | Fowler was sitting by an alcove where there were shelves stuffed with books , old books with broken spines and faded lettering so that it was impossible to decide what most of them were about . |
| 12 | Mr MacKay said that it was impossible to identify what skills workers in Wales would require by 2000 because of the pace of change . |
| 13 | At the close of the Ecclesiastical History Bede wrote that such serious commotions had characterized the beginning and course of the reign that it was impossible to know what to say about them or anticipate their eventual outcome ( HE V , 23 ) . |
| 14 | Thus J. S. Mill , the leading theoretician of liberal feminism , stressed that it was impossible to know what women 's true capacities were because of their inferior education . |
| 15 | He told himself that it was pointless to speculate what difference , if any , this would make to the investigation . |
| 16 | The three of them were so smoke begrimed and blackened that it was difficult to tell what they were wearing but two of them appeared to be dressed in white while the third was in a navy blue overall . |
| 17 | Obviously , the Maastricht mess has dogged this first year , so it is difficult to assess what impact , if any , the supposedly new caring Major and his cabinet have had on social policy . |
| 18 | Most samples are based on the concept of ‘ random sampling ’ , so it is important to understand what is meant by the word ‘ random ’ . |
| 19 | Every bird has a beak and wings , so it is meaningful to ask what are the lengths of beaks and wings for all birds . |
| 20 | I 've put so many features on this , but also put a lot of thought into the layout , so it 's easy to see what switch does what . |
| 21 | Children 's needs change as they grow , so it 's important to know what milk they should be drinking at different stages . |
| 22 | At the university here we have got two or three groups in which we do know how to do that and especially the work that I 'm associated with , again the arts undergraduates , we have developed over a period now of something like six years , ways of giving them confidence , and it 's amazing to see what happens . |
| 23 | It 's hard to decide what you can do if you do n't know how much money you can get , and it 's hard to decide what something will cost if you have n't a clear idea of what you want to do . |
| 24 | Well you ca n't create stability , the Communist Party ca n't sort of I mean cos that 's what , sort of hindering long term investments and that how peasants do n't feel that how that things are secure , they and it 's difficult to see what the Communist Party could 've done |
| 25 | It is intrinsic to divided societies that both forms of policing occur simultaneously , and it is important to establish what effects one has on the other . |
| 26 | The project is at its very early stages and it is difficult to predict what the eventual impact will be . |
| 27 | With Windows NT still a gleam in Bill Gates ' eye , OS/2 2.0 can lay claim to the goodness high ground , and it is difficult to see what more IBM could have done to make it electable — its erstwhile friends would say that it has cynically ditched all its principles — of closed systems , tight central control , the whole ‘ nanny knows best and you 'd better believe it ’ ethos that served the company so well for so long , and led to a string of successes at the ballot box in the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 28 | It is submitted that these conclusions are wholly unjustified ; it has been rejected by other United States courts and it is difficult to see what purpose would be served by the inclusion of Article 10(a) in a convention on service of process if that was not its subject-matter . |
| 29 | He will reject what a conventionalist accepts as law only in special cases , when a statute is old and out-of-date , for example , or when a line of precedent is widely regarded as unfair or inefficient , and it is difficult to see what of value is then lost . |
| 30 | ‘ The workers have not followed the proper dispute procedures , they have no legitimate grievances and it is difficult to know what they want . ’ |