Example sentences of "it be [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why should Kathleen not visit the nursery garden , why had it been necessary to make the explanation about the geranium plants , why had she flushed with guilt and fear and concealment ? |
| 2 | Why has it been necessary to have endless debates about developing phase 2 of Kilroot as an oil or coal-burning plant , which is the expensive and the dirty option ? |
| 3 | Thus in the European feudal societies it was not the conflict between lord and peasant which was decisive in bringing about change ( only in the twentieth century has it been possible to organize peasants in effective revolutionary movements ) , but the emergence and growth in those societies of an alien incompatible element — the bourgeoisie . |
| 4 | Only for the black bean aphid Aphis fabae has it been possible to develop over the last 25 years an effective system to predict migration several months ahead to advise farmers when to spray . |
| 5 | ‘ I would not , quite frankly , have involved you in this policy disagreement between us , Mike , had it been possible to avoid doing so . |
| 6 | Had it been essential to inject , many ‘ new ’ users stated that they would probably not have experimented with heroin in the first place . |
| 7 | Confidence is hard to measure , so worries about it are easy to dismiss — but when it goes you can generally tell by counting the dole queues . |
| 8 | Suicide tends now to command sympathy , even when the reasons for it are hard to understand . |
| 9 | Would it be possible to give choices of title which indicate discourse type as well ? |
| 10 | Would it be possible to report that as unanimous ? |
| 11 | Would it be possible to mount a research project into that , do you suppose ? |
| 12 | Will it be possible to finish the 12 — 2 guinea plates the 2nd thirty small ones and the thirty of which the first ground has been done by the first of April next — or the end of March — give opinion on this … ? ’ |
| 13 | Only then will it be possible to reach a comprehensive assessment of Nizan 's life and work . |
| 14 | How would it be possible to take the two applications together when , thanks to the Government 's incompetence , there is not yet a scheme to run trains to King 's Cross ? |
| 15 | To overcome this barrier , I suggest , one must look at the approach in action ; only then will it be possible to see what it has achieved , and to assess what it might achieve if taken on its own terms . |
| 16 | No way would it be possible to dissect out one of O'Keefe 's place cells and show it ‘ learning in a dish ’ ; the cell 's responses are meaningful only in the context of the entire nervous system and the behaving organism in which it is embedded . |
| 17 | And if this 6Mb does exist , would it be possible to recover it for general use ? |
| 18 | Would it be possible to arrange accommodation ? |
| 19 | Will it be possible to sell the goods to the markets at a satisfying profit ? |
| 20 | Nor would it be possible to refer him to any works of literature ( before the present one ) from which he could gain enlightenment . |
| 21 | Might it be possible to restrict the use of these two streets , during day hours , to public transport , coaches and cyclists ? |
| 22 | Would it be possible to re-use old programs written for conventional machines , or would users have to start from scratch and throw away their existing investment in software ? |
| 23 | If there was no shot in or among the human remains , in the cavities of the skull for instance , would it be possible to find it in the soil , among the sand and gravel and pine needles ? |
| 24 | How should it be possible to find the name(s) of the owner(s) of the Blue Parrot ? |
| 25 | How should it be possible to find the name(s) of the owner(s) of the Blue Parrot ? |
| 26 | Would it be possible to find out what Priscilla 's results were because she 's had a urine test and she 's extremely sore and they 've asked for another urine test , and I 'm |
| 27 | How will it be possible to develop educational practices that will build on existing multicultural and antiracist initiatives , but move beyond them ? |
| 28 | would it be possible to utilise taxes to provide jobs directly ? |
| 29 | Would it be possible to donate by monthly instalments ? |
| 30 | Would it be possible to identify the object in my sketch ? |