Example sentences of "[Wh adv] it be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Child hits and kicks the cat whenever it is within reach . |
| 2 | Right , and the background to that of course is , for those of you who may not know , Bullett was I suppose a more junior person in the State Department , when he went to Europe with Woodrow Wilson in nineteen eighteen , and nineteen whenever it was for a peace conference , and Bullett was the only one of the American delegation who resigned and confronted Wilson and said , look , you 've gone back on the fourteen points , you 're not doing what you said you would do . |
| 3 | Britain 's union structure was one of a series of ‘ fragmented monopolies ’ , each monopoly looking over its shoulder at other monopolies and exploiting the comparison whenever it was to its advantage . |
| 4 | ‘ If that 's how it 's to be , then that 's that , ’ he said and turning away , climbed the ladder into what was still his room . |
| 5 | Unlike media reporting of the actual events , ‘ I ca n't even see how it 's in the public interest . ’ |
| 6 | Even more laudable is the awareness of many difference researchers that the problem of women 's speech is not so much how it is as how it is valued . |
| 7 | SUN 's SCOTT McNEALY TELLS IT HOW IT IS ABOUT CHIPS IN VAPOUR , WINDOWS SUPPORT AND SPARC SUPPLIES |
| 8 | Throughout the philosophy of mind and certainly amongst both lay and professional psychologists there is the view that basically two kinds of fact exist : physical facts about the brain and the external world , on the one hand , and facts ‘ about how it is with us ’ , on the other . |
| 9 | You know how it is with these developments . |
| 10 | It is hard to believe that any business whose life blood is communications could lag behind in using modern information technology , but that is how it is with British public relations . |
| 11 | You know how it is with volunteers , Pascoe . |
| 12 | In principle he would like to do the movie , but you know how it is with agents . |
| 13 | You know how it is with dames . |
| 14 | There was no emotion in my voice , that 's how it is with people who 've been abused , you talk about it as if you 're just calmly stating a fact . |
| 15 | " You know how it is with children ; she 's well one day , not so well the next . " |
| 16 | Oh , you know how it is with wizards . |
| 17 | At the tract 's beginning , Eudoxus inquires how it is with the advantages of Ireland as a place for agriculture — a key aspect for establishing civility — that it remains savage . |
| 18 | You know how it is with the two |
| 19 | You know how it is on ferries — you get a bit disoriented , you never know if you 're on A deck or B deck , or which bit of the outside you 're getting to when you go through a door — the front , the stern , or the sides . |
| 20 | Planning is the managerial process of deciding in advance what is to be done and how it is to be done . |
| 21 | You must now determine what financial help you need ( including Government subsidies for such things as new buildings , fencing , hedging , hill cattle , and sheep ) , what it will cost , and how it is to be repaid . |
| 22 | Legislation has put the matter beyond doubt in eight jurisdictions in the United States and elsewhere — for example , in France.15 In the United Kingdom , although some advocate legislation , it is likely that the new description will merely be incorporated into the law without more.16 The acceptance of brain-stem death may resolve a number of problems , but there is still the problem of how it is to be established in a particular case . |
| 23 | How it is to be supplied is however a matter of controversy . |
| 24 | It is important to consider what sort of data we shall be using and how it is to be obtained before we become over-committed to the project . |
| 25 | This means that it is important that all those likely to be affected by the introduction of new technology should be involved in the decisions about how it is to be used . |
| 26 | If , for example , I am engaged in reading a text on a subject in which I am well versed ( where the ideational or content schema is familiar ) , which has been written in a manner conventionally associated with writing on this subject ( where the interpersonal or formal schema is familiar ) , then I shall only need to pay attention to the linguistic signs to the extent that they key in this schematic knowledge and indicate how it is to be extended . |
| 27 | ‘ Of how it is to be Anne Duchess of York perchance ? ’ |
| 28 | This is still valid as an educational ethos , but what comes to be questioned is the ‘ potential ’ and how it is to be measured . |
| 29 | Western Europe 's hope and Moscow 's fear is that the process also entitles the West to stipulate what ‘ reduction of tensions ’ comprises and how it is to be judged . |
| 30 | If it is included , they must also decide on how it is to be taught . |