Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] what it [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has received meticulous counsel from one of the nation 's highest courts about what it might wish to say on the subject in the future . |
| 2 | Though the social survey method was not extensively used in Chicago-inspired studies , and there was some scepticism about what it could achieve for sociology compared to field research , with the appointment of Ogburn in 1927 , a statistically trained sociologist , the pace of the development of quantitative methods quickened . |
| 3 | Sadly there was no mention of what it could do to a 13-year-old child . |
| 4 | Those who like Jenny in our case-study find themselves avoiding conflict at all costs , never facing up to issues , never expressing hurt or anger for fear of what it might release in others , need to do some work on this point . |
| 5 | And with it , the sudden fear of what it could do to the tourist trade . |
| 6 | I do n't understand your argument that having an E two type policy and without prejudice to what it may say , will make discussions at the local plan level about where boundaries are , more difficult or less difficult . |
| 7 | This obviously reduces the income below what it would have been had he been able to hold the assets directly . |
| 8 | Anyone who has romantic ideas of what it must have been like for great women and men to be filled with God 's Spirit should think again if the story of Mary is anything to go by . |
| 9 | Too often , I think , the referee is tempted to shift the goal-posts in reliance upon his own speculation about what it would have been sensible for Parliament to do if Parliament had thought of doing it . |
| 10 | Fleming had called it a ferment , or enzyme , but that did not take matters very far , and gave no hint of what it might ferment , or of what substance it attacked in susceptible microbes . |
| 11 | Drawbacks : Expensive but , in terms of what it can do , this microwave is good enough to replace a conventional oven ( although remember cooking space is limited in that you could n't , say , do the roast and vegetables at the same time ) . |
| 12 | As part of the process of clarifying what might be meant by brainwashing , I proposed a working definition of what it might mean to make a choice : |
| 13 | In theoretical terms , too , it is hard to object because , of course , everybody has their own detailed definition of what it might contain . |
| 14 | Such is their determination that the actual value of the item they want to buy — in comparison with what it would cost at home — becomes irrelevant . |
| 15 | For some suggestions on what it might do , if we can ever find it , see Johnson-Laird ( 1983 ) . |
| 16 | There seemed no limit to what it could achieve . |
| 17 | Implicit in the notion of a game is that of taking a risk , and one bases one 's decision on what it will cost if one loses . |
| 18 | However , before you go adding vast quantities of fat to your dogs ' food , spare a thought for what it will do to the rest of your diet . |
| 19 | If the children in Durham Cathedral do not have a sense of what it would cost them to break the vow of sanctuary they can not have much interest vested in keeping it . |
| 20 | In spite of this , advertisers , agencies and researchers persist in pushing the interpretation of recall well beyond the limits of what it can tell them . |
| 21 | But as no one shareholder had control to sell , the Government was able to acquire control of the company 's assets for a fraction of their true value ( and for a fraction of what it would have had to pay on a take-over bid ) . |
| 22 | ‘ The ramifications of what it would mean has not yet been understood , either by Scotland or elsewhere in the UK . ’ |
| 23 | As we trooped in for the service , the sun caught it and , for a moment , I had a virion of what it must have really looked like , all those years ago , when they nailed poor old JC up before the people , one bright day in palestine . |
| 24 | Which one it puts forward can not be decided until Government gives further clues about what it would like : ‘ Once this has happened , the board will move rapidly to implement its preferred option , recognising as we do that the timetable set for us by Government is relatively tight . ’ |
| 25 | In fact , this would pay to rebuild only the most modest house , and the table below gives examples of what it would cost to rebuild different types of houses in different parts of the country . |
| 26 | From this it follows that we could give some account of what it might mean to ‘ change the context ’ in the sense in which Fillmore ( 1977 : 119 ) envisages this when he says ‘ I … find myself asking what the effect would have been if the context had been slightly different . ’ |
| 27 | Each organisation will have to publish explicit standards on what it will offer to its customers . |
| 28 | With the coat-collar of his Burberry turned up , he reminded her of a private eye in a film — she was under surveillance , everything about him accentuated his detailed analysis of her appearance , and she felt a shiver at what it might portend . |
| 29 | How about if we had one shared out between three people have a guess at what it would look like the fraction . |
| 30 | I can only hazard a guess at what it must have been like to sail in a typical convoy , with bombers and submarines liable to strike at any moment , or to brave the Western Approaches with only a couple of inches of rusting metal between yourself and the enemy . |