Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pers pn] is [adv] [adj] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 By briefly reconsidering the major industrial disputes covered by Geary 's final two periods , it will be shown how it is more advisable to explain the characteristics of the key industrial confrontations of the period in terms of the specific audiences influencing police behaviour .
2 Remember how it is often difficult to think clearly when the air is heavy just before a storm , or how your mind seems to become clear and sharp in the crisp , clean air on a mountainside or beside the sea .
3 However it is also valuable to practise out loud by yourself , and it is even better if you can tape record your answers so that you can hear how you sound .
4 However it is also important to make sure that the journalist knows who and where contacts are ; more of this later .
5 However it is also difficult to think of a wavefunction as a mere calculational device , in the way that Bohr 's words quoted above suggested .
6 However it is also fair to say that the professional leaders sometimes expected too much from the change ; it is no slur on an honourable movement within the American profession that its initial success did not immediately bring the golden age .
7 However it is quite proper to reject a request if the evidence is really being sought with a view to its use in criminal proceedings .
8 However it is more difficult getting an opinion about an act 's music over the phone .
9 However it is extremely refreshing to read a feminist novel which in part tackles the issue of obsessive love so uncompromisingly , and refuses to confuse compulsion with romance .
10 At a time when it is increasingly popular to search for complex explanations for continuing or increasing levels of unsafe sexual behaviour among gay and bisexual men the most obvious explanation — lack of continuing education about safer sex — must not be overlooked .
11 If trust does not occur , however , that is when it is most likely to do so .
12 This rift in work relationships can be shattering , producing a sense of redundancy at a time when it is too late to retrain or seek another label and identity .
13 I know from my work with homeless families that such people invariably need help late at night , in the early hours of the morning or at weekends , when it is especially difficult to find a general practitioner who will respond quickly to a call to see someone who has arrived on the doorstep — in my case that means the doorstep of the YMCAs for which I worked .
14 There are many busy mothers who would be delighted to see their horses being exercised , particularly during the winter when it is less easy to turn horses out ( in an attempt to preserve limited grazing ) .
15 I am satisfied that the plaintiff is in a state where it is reasonably necessary to provide for the costs of setting up and maintaining a trust to handle the plaintiff 's financial interests over the years ahead .
16 the proliferation of technical manuals over the last twenty years has meant that the number of manuals supplied with complex aircraft/systems has increased to the point where it is practically impossible to access all the information in the ‘ library ’ ( Fig. 1 shows an example of technical manual growth rate within the Naval Air Systems Command ) ;
17 Paradoxically it is the pressure created by the enormous guilt , and by the doomed attempt to deal with it , that builds tension to the point where it is more likely to explode into real physical abuse .
18 It 's early to tell yet ) to a recent number of one of the fashion monthlies , the wheel has turned just about half-circle and arrived at the point where it is almost essential to talk about the food and drink , because they have been chosen mainly with a view to distracting attention from the table decorations .
19 VICTOR Harrison has been in touch from Teesdale from where it is always welcome to hear .
20 If the Vendor is warranting the audited accounts , why it is also necessary to warrant the accuracy of the other books and records of the Business .
21 That is why it is wholly inadequate to describe drama as " learning through action " — in drama we learn through thinking in new ways about actions and about decisions we would not otherwise have the opportunity to take .
22 Or the project will test their understanding of why it is particularly bad to break a promise .
23 This explains why it is strictly impossible to omit to in : ( 35 ) He needs to do more exercise .
24 This is why it is extremely dangerous to imagine , as many positivist criminologists seemed to do , that such actions can be understood and explained without reference to these processes of definition and application .
25 The computer ‘ forgets ’ whatever is stored in RAM when it is switched off ; which is why it is so important to save to disk any files you have created beforehand .
26 This is why it is so important to keep ‘ on the move ’ .
27 This is why it is so important to address each day those things that are bugging us .
28 This is why it is so important to have soul-friends , who sometimes know us better than we can ever know ourselves .
29 This is why it is so valuable to arrange with them that certain visits will be regularly earmarked for ‘ odd jobbing ’ .
30 When light dawns as to what we are fighting for and why it is so difficult to achieve , sometimes we can break off and laugh with relief and take the steps to reconciliation that , again and again and again seem to be necessary .
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