Example sentences of "[Wh det] [noun] be [adv] that " in BNC.

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1 On the other hand , there is no alternative to understanding the world through interpretations and models and hence through what are , in the last analysis , intellectual fictions whose warrant is only that it is as if they were true .
2 What checks are there that procedures are being followed ?
3 If screams do not cause a single person to react , what hope is there that a small , silent television screen in a bank of twenty-one such screens will be more effective ?
4 She had accused Luke of acting in the most despicable way possible , so what hope was there that he would ever accept her apologies ?
5 But what evidence is there that this bit of the cortex is concerned with the reception of sound ?
6 And indeed what evidence is there that Sicily as a physical presence , a quite insistent presence as generations of travellers have found it , ever modified Pound 's sensibility in the least ?
7 An editorial in The Times , a firm supporter of Thatcherite policies , could ask on 3 May 1985 : ‘ If these obstructions to a society , based on enterprise and shorn of its collectivist illusions , can not be dismantled in six years , what evidence is there that twelve years will be any better ? ’
8 What evidence is there that these overt policies and covert assumptions have outlived the political and economic structures which brought them into being ?
9 What evidence is there that you are not living up to the appropriate standards ?
10 But what evidence is there that babies acquire social knowledge and that their behaviour to other people is qualitatively different from their behaviour to inanimate objects ?
11 What chance is there that a start on such a package could be made in the near future ?
12 What chance was there that this man could ever love her or be faithful to one woman ?
13 If a student is to study a number of different subjects or courses , what guarantee is there that they will all come together and form a coherent whole ?
14 For what guarantee is there that it does so objectively ?
15 What guarantee was there that they had not been stolen ?
16 And if human reason had been impaired by the Fall , what guarantee was there that one could think God 's thoughts after Him ?
17 What indications are there that Lansdowne wishes to pursue a cautious policy , and how would you explain that caution ?
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