Example sentences of "it [be] [adj] [verb] which " in BNC.

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1 It 's impossible to say which city Bashlachev belonged to because he was raised in the northern town of Cherepovets , studied at Sverdlovsk University and spent the last few years of his life wandering between Moscow , Leningrad and Siberia .
2 ISSUED HERE as a double 12″ white label pack , so it 's impossible to say which mixes will actually end up on the street .
3 There are 3,000 species , however , and it 's impossible to tell which this is .
4 " It 's easy to see which one you want me to tek .
5 HOLIDAY MONEY There are now so many ways holidaymakers can take money abroad that it 's hard to decide which is best
6 It 's hard to say which one will take the most careful handling , especially in view of the fact that Calder is reported to be considering backing the building of the new radio station .
7 Clearly you 're unlikely to be recommending somewhere that is not transport in the structure but you 'll believe it 's important to specify which one .
8 Home : I live between New York , Paris and Germany so it 's difficult to say which is home , but I always have things with me that make even a hotel room feel like home .
9 Ericsson has made a number of 286-compatible PCs , so it 's difficult to say which way you get into the setup , but here are a few possibilities :
10 It 's difficult to tell which wines will win , and easy to say when wine is good , but it takes that little bit extra to make it a winner .
11 It 's difficult to know which country the cocoa comes from because you do n't know where they buy it .
12 Unfortunately it is crucial to know which species of snake is involved because snake poisons are so complex that it has proved impossible to develop a ‘ multi-venin' that will treat all forms of snakebite .
13 As 30 per cent of YTS graduates fail to find employment at the end of their course it is crucial to understand which groups are able to use the YTS to gain a foothold in the labour market , and those which are unsuccessful .
14 These are the books which it is nice to have which cost a lot to look after , but which nobody can ever look at because they are so valuable .
15 Since the ‘ history of belief and feeling ’ can not be traced , it is impossible to conclude which alternative is the true one .
16 IT IS IMPOSSIBLE to say which major party will win today 's election .
17 It is impossible to tell which is earth and which is sky , though eastward what looks like a whiter than usual cloud must surely be snow on the fells of Furness .
18 It is useful to know which is the likely response to your committed attack and that is one way of finding out .
19 It is possible to calculate which element corresponds to bigram transition i , j using the formula
20 In this way it is possible to determine which entries are being worked on , which have been examined , which approved , and which discarded as obsolete by lexicographers .
21 Defining categories as Unproductive ( Total References = 0 ) ; Low productivity ( 1-5 papers within 5 years of completion ) ; Medium productivity ( 6-15 papers within 5 years of completion ) ; and High productivity ( 16 or more papers within 5 years ) without being judgemental ( there are , after all , many factors involved ) , it is possible to determine which Universities have produced the most productive , and which the least productive , researchers .
22 Defining categories as Unproductive ( Total References = 0 ) ; Low productivity ( 1-5 papers within 5 years of completion ) ; Medium productivity ( 6-15 papers within 5 years of completion ) ; and High productivity ( 16 or more papers within 5 years ) without being judgemental ( there are , after all , many factors involved ) , it is possible to determine which Universities have produced the most productive , and which the least productive , researchers .
23 The general assumption ( as in most phonetics books ) has been that speech is composed of phonemes and that usually whenever a speech sound is produced by a speaker it is possible to identify which phoneme that sound belongs to .
24 After this demonstration it is needless to say which train got away first , but , of course , there was an outcry because the Mail ran late !
25 As it is from the children of the semi- and unskilled working class who leave school without any qualification that the underclass is being recruited , it is important to ask which children are most likely to fall into this category .
26 But while a single essay might draw in this way on more than one perspective , it is important to establish which is the primary or organising mode of argument and what is the primary focus around which an essay is based .
27 It is important to identify which fume cupboards need to operate overnight , and closing the fume cupboard door to the threshold level will allow low speed operation of two speed systems .
28 When sailing in surf it is important to select which wave to jump and also which part of the wave face is best .
29 In addition , it is important to know which of the altered plasma factors in the diabetic state are responsible for enhanced platelet function .
30 When we have to compare the values of numbers it is important to know which has the greatest , and which has the least value .
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