Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [Wh det] [pron] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even allowing for what they would have lost on laundering the proceeds , there should have been a tidy sum . |
| 2 | It is no mystery that a child can feel compelled to judge himself from his father 's viewpoint , although it may seem so if one uses Freudian language and starts puzzling about what it could mean for an instinctive egoist to ‘ introject ’ the image of his father . |
| 3 | You have to work off what you can get . |
| 4 | Part Two — Working in the ES — summarises the key points you will need to know about what you can expect in terms of support and entitlements from your new employer and other useful information ; and |
| 5 | The award asks children between the ages of nine and 12 to write about what they would like to do when they grow up . |
| 6 | Charles and Diana frequently visited their brother John 's lichen-covered grave in the Sandringham churchyard and mused about what he would have been like and whether they would have been born if he had lived . |
| 7 | In such circumstances , it is effrontery that my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Monklands , East and my hon. Friend the Member for Derby , South ( Mrs. Beckett ) should be attacked for what they might do , instead of the Government being brought to account for what they have done and continue to do . |
| 8 | ‘ Measure the service you provide against what you would like in similar circumstances . ’ |
| 9 | In other words , there are no revenues included against which we must charge future expenses and there are no expenses against which we must match future revenues : there are no hidden liabilities but at the same time there are no hidden windfalls . |
| 10 | There is very little incentive at the moment because you are constrained with what you can do with the money . ’ |
| 11 | Through this , her love can be tempered into a compassion and understanding with which she can help and sustain others . |
| 12 | You take Shallot 's advice on this : the power of witchcraft lies in what you can make other people think . |
| 13 | Moggridge Associates ' designer Martin Darbyshire , who worked on a small fax machine for a Scandinavian manufacturer , endorses the view that the appeal of fax still lies in what it can do , not what it looks like . |
| 14 | But I think trick or treat itself , maybe has got a bit perhaps distorted from what one might imagine the American idea originally was . |
| 15 | This is a general facility we might like to write in which we would allow us to work like that on any job there is n't for some reason a job , a good reason why a kick-in procedure ca n't be followed , that we deal with it by having em , in the master job file which states that , states the deliberate erm , position rather than an accident . |
| 16 | Consider taking a cheap base in the area before term starts from which you can study the area and the vacancies , and be ready to pounce from close at hand . |
| 17 | A very fine example is provided by the natural arch in limestone on the river Ardèche in the Cevennes to the west of the Lower Rhône valley ( Plate 36 ) : this approximates to what one would expect if a meander of the type shown in Fig. 9. 12A had been cut through at the neck . |
| 18 | Better concentrate on what you can control and get on with it . |
| 19 | Researchers are not constrained to what they can observe or experience directly , but are able to cover as many facets of as many people as resources allow . |
| 20 | If you ask in general , why social science has been in so selective in its use of Freud , and so one-sided in its interpretation , the answer seems to be , that since the nineteen twenties and up until very recently , Western social science has been primarily dominated by what I would call , cultural determinism , and by that I mean , a school of thought which believes that , to use a term borrowed from one of its founding fathers , Emile Durkheim , social facts have social causes . |
| 21 | Both of them are captivated by what I shall call ‘ the myth of the sense behind the sentence ‘ . |
| 22 | If you did n't think of what it would mean to me , what about the clothes she was supposed to model for you ? ’ |
| 23 | I admit it sounds like a lot ; but that 's because everybody thinks of what they could do with it if it ended up in their bank account . |
| 24 | Bills would arrive and I 'd just leave them unopened , frightened of what they 'd say . |
| 25 | It was then getting near the time that I could turn him out , again I put it off , frightened of what he might do . |
| 26 | Well it is possible of course and I think that er the European Nations , including those in Eastern Europe er ought to be getting together to consult about what we can do , because I do n't think it 's right simply to send these refugees back as the er Italians have been doing , er in fact there likely to be amongst . |
| 27 | I wandered down the Rue de la Carbière then I heard the first soul-searing howl : the wolves were back in Paris , hunting for whatever they could find . |
| 28 | ‘ No one comes to me after our matches to talk about what they could have done better , ’ said Durie . |
| 29 | It is important that they slowly build up a historical vocabulary , and learn some of the technical terms that will allow them to talk about what they can see . |
| 30 | And you and I in our journey in life looking for what we could get , hoping to make it we 've now been made joint heirs with Jesus Christ entering into his inheritance . |