Example sentences of "[Wh adv] it is [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The recent change from Madam to Madame , ’ she said , ‘ though it has doubtless raised the tone and general tenor of proceedings in this low and benighted place , has not quite succeeded in erasing the traces of squalor and indeed sleaze which cling to that title in the popular or gutter imagination whenever it is applied to a hard-working woman . |
| 2 | A very good theory will be one that makes very wide-ranging claims about the world , and which is consequently highly falsifiable , and is one that resists falsification whenever it is put to the test . |
| 3 | Lagerfeld demands and gets total creative control not only of the design of the collection , but how it is presented to the world . |
| 4 | The distinction between what a writer has to say , and how it is presented to the reader , underlies one of the earliest and most persistent concepts of style:that of style as the " dress of thought " . |
| 5 | The story makes some very profound points about the role of ritual in religion , the development of conceptual understanding , the meaning of the word " spiritual " and how it is related to religion . |
| 6 | Details of the secondary booklet and of how it is intended to be used are given in Chapter 4 , which presents case studies of two secondary schools making use of it . |
| 7 | For the purpose of this project text is categorised in terms of how it is produced ( i.e. printed by a machine or handwritten by a person ) , and how it is input to the computer for recognition ( i.e. is it recognised dynamically as a person writes or already existing text which is scanned in ) . |
| 8 | This is probably the case since children do things the way that feels natural to them without worrying unduly how it is meant to be done . |
| 9 | Two stages are involved , the reason for which is neatly summarized in this quotation from C.S. Lewis : The first qualification for judging any piece of workmanship from a corkscrew to a cathedral is to know what it is — what it was intended to do and how it is meant to be used . |
| 10 | However it is linked to these things because they and it are part of a complex whole , and this rules out the simple correlations between two elements which Engels sought to establish in his ‘ historical ’ discussion . |
| 11 | HIV is a very weak virus and can only survive for a very short time when it is exposed to air outside the human body . |
| 12 | ‘ There must come a time when it is called to a halt , ’ Lord Donaldson said . |
| 13 | It enables everyone involved to understand the Process that is going on , it makes it possible for grieving people to be looked after for a while , but not to sink into a chronic mourning state , because everyone knows when it is meant to be finished , and when the bereaved people are meant to pick up their responsibilities again . |
| 14 | Further discussion on the proposal will be deferred until the 1993 meeting , when it is expected to be the main focus of environmental lobbying . |
| 15 | Opportunities are to be maximised and threats either avoided or turned into opportunities ( see Sharplin , 1985 , pp. 54 6 , 190–4. where it is referred to as WOTS-UP analysis ) . |
| 16 | Unlike the past participle and the -ing form , however , the infinitive does not evoke its event as partially or completely realized at the point in time where it is referred to its support , and so the incidence of the event to the support can itself be seen as a mere possibility . |
| 17 | And that was the sort of level of detail to which we thought we might need to go in those districts where it is demonstrated to us , of the district do need to be considered differently . |
| 18 | From the top of the drums , water is pumped to Tank 1 via the spray bar down through the foam and spar , from where it is transferred to Tank 2 up through more spar . |
| 19 | The site where it is attached to the ovary is known as the animal pole and the other end the vegetal pole . |
| 20 | This is processed and after various chemical stages is converted into Potash powder and transported , in bulk , to the Port of Aquaba where it is exported to Third World nations . |
| 21 | To determine whether TTX blocks proliferation of oligodendrocyte precursor cells by decreasing the production or release of a mitogen , we injected TTX into one eye of P10 animals and examined their optic nerves 2 days later ; in these experiments , some of the animals also received a subarachnoid injection of COS cells that were genetically engineered to secrete the AA form of PDGF into the cerebrospinal fluid , from where it is delivered to the optic nerve . |
| 22 | The polymer exists initially in the solid state where it is restricted to only one of the many conformations which are available to it as a free isolated molecule . |
| 23 | Whether a single lift costing little more than half the balance lift is advisable or not can only be determined on working out the details of the site where it is required to be constructed and the conditions under which it would have to be worked . |
| 24 | Here the new voice of the nineteenth century can be clearly heard , with its insistence upon self-awareness , self-expression and self-discovery — an insistence whose dangers we have already remarked upon where it is taken to extremes , so that the human self entirely fills the horizon . |
| 25 | Hence the reason why it is referred to as Truth force , or Soul force . |