Example sentences of "[Wh det] it would be [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are somewhat similar ways in which it would be odd to express assent to a question to show that one shared the speaker 's wondering . |
| 2 | The CRG set about trying to define a series of integrative levels upon which it would be possible to base the main classes and their order for a new general classification scheme . |
| 3 | For example , when the Lucas workers were asked if there were ways in which it would be possible to protect workers on the North Sea oil pipelines from the hazards experienced there , they were conscious that their initial reaction was typical of the existing forms of science and technology : they thought of designing a robotic device which would eliminate the human being altogether . |
| 4 | These were allayed by sending a formal letter to all teachers in the sample stating categorically that no information from which it would be possible to identify individuals would be published . |
| 5 | He may never have envisioned a situation in which it would be possible to specify in some detail the characteristics of the phylogenetic id , the evolutionary starting-point from which the modern id-ego organization began . |
| 6 | The only circumstances under which it would be possible to remove the National Government were those which actually arose in May 1940 : " A new situation might arise of course , if any considerable number of Members of Parliament now supporting the Government . |
| 7 | ‘ The formal words about the necessity of the ‘ neutrality ’ of Afghanistan contained in the Carrington Plan ’ were described as ‘ no more than a screen for the creation of conditions in which it would be possible to achieve a restoration of the regime overthrown by the Afghan people ’ . |
| 8 | This would provide a framework in which it would be possible to understand automatic processing at the tactical level . |
| 9 | was of a description which it would be reasonable to expect him to obtain in the ordinary course of that business , and that he does that thing in good faith in the course of that business . ’ |
| 10 | France had given ‘ due importance to the kind of rural traditions without which it would be impossible to enjoy a way of life that recognises the importance of elements in our lives which enrich and enoble us , but which are not ‘ cost-effective ’ in strictly economic terms . ’ |
| 11 | A world of gently undulating landscapes , made of some shock-absorbent material like foam rubber , on which it would be impossible to injure yourself . |
| 12 | Some are general principles with which it would be impossible to disagree . |
| 13 | Many of them have bizarre adaptations , as parasites , or as permanent ‘ guests ’ within particular species of coral or sponge , which it would be impossible to infer from fossil remains . |
| 14 | On the left was the overhanging face of the cliff , beneath which it would be impossible to stand upright . |
| 15 | I would probably end up in a bed and breakfast hostel , in which it would be impossible to write . ’ |
| 16 | They have the vital factor of the opposable thumb , without which it would be impossible to handle and investigate objects with any degree of manual dexterity . |
| 17 | On steep snow the leader should always plant the axe in a manner from which it would be easy to hold a sudden load . |
| 18 | From this , nursing managers can calculate the peak periods across the whole unit and also identify times for which it would be beneficial to employ part-time staff . |
| 19 | It is very easy to read him wrong and to make mistakes , and there are , of course , occasions when he does offer a brutal simplicity , which it would be ridiculous to try and develop . |
| 20 | As one with wide , if not indeed indiscriminating , predilections of this sort throughout Scotland ( with some reservations which it would be unseemly to dwell upon here ) , I found the cases of Johnne Brughe of Fossiway ( pp 597 et seq ) , Bruce of Clackmannan contra Merschell ( pp 603 et seq ) , Stewartis contra Merser ( pp 563–571 ) and John Thomesone & utheris contra John Scott ( pp 783–785 ) of clear and cogent delight to read , while the plangent record of time long byegone in James Swan ( pp 742–743 ) where the worthy cautioner of the accused was ordained to make good the ‘ payne of one hundred merkis ’ imposed for the unlawful taking of salmon on the River Cart inspires thought too deep to utter . |
| 21 | The question whether we are acquainted with our bare selves , as opposed to particular thoughts and feelings , is a very difficult one , upon which it would be rash to speak positively . |
| 22 | These and the other sources of expert knowledge which the ministry could call upon ( the first of a series of legal advisers was appointed in 1723 , for example ) suggest a professionalism which it would be hard to equal elsewhere in old-regime Europe . |
| 23 | The Peace of Paris left France and Spain ready to look for revenge , and Britain 's hasty departure from the war left Frederick feeling betrayed , so that Britain was quite likely to be involved in another war soon , and a war for which it would be hard to find allies . |
| 24 | One has to concede that successive Conservative Governments have accepted rulings from Brussels on , for example , social policy , the regulation of working practices and the straight-forward geographical reallocation of wealth which it would be hard to imagine ever having been proposed as part of a domestic Conservative programme . |
| 25 | As a gallery , we specialise in a great many virtually ‘ interlocking ’ different art styles , of which it would be fair to say that the Japonisme Aesthetic Movement is our largest single field . |
| 26 | While Israel 's policy was directed towards the normalization of life under occupation , Jordan 's prime preoccupation was to prevent political developments among the people of the West Bank which it would be unable to control . |
| 27 | So the argument put forward by Machiavelli that a leader ‘ must not mind incurring the scandal of those vices without which it would be difficult to save the state ’ on the grounds ‘ that some things which seem virtues would , if followed , lead to one 's ruin and that some others which appear vices result in one 's greater security and well-being ’ , is completely contrary to Gandhi 's views . |
| 28 | In Gaddis Smith 's account this is something which happened in 1950 and there was , as will be seen , a cluster of commitments round about April and May of that year from which it would be difficult to turn back ; although another of Acheson 's biographers has argued that , contrary to what revisionist historians say , Acheson 's Indo-China policy did not make future American military involvement inevitable . |
| 29 | In his work on The State and Revolution , which develops an area in which Marx was somewhat vague , he displays a ruthlessness and a disregard for individual dissent which it would be difficult to match . |
| 30 | Of course it is true that some children have specific needs which it would be inappropriate to attempt to deal with at the level of the curriculum as a whole . |