Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] what we [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 If you have any queries about what we can do for you , please do n't hesitate to call us on
2 Er I mean I , I mean have we really thought this through because er if we 're an anticipating having hundred , hundred and fifty people here which I suppose is of course about what we would hope for , the response that NUPE er as you know they would need to actually achieve the yes vote , I mean we need this sort of room full er would n't it not be more sensible to split up between co or not , would it not be normal for the tutor to expect the group to split up to address specific areas like , I do n't know , Labour Party membership , erm finance , I do n't know , whatever
3 Magic : it lubricates the gap between what we can see and understand , and what unhappy feelings haunt our dreams .
4 I 've been doing more thinking about what we should do in future .
5 I have so looked forward to it , making all the things with Matey , and thinking of what we shall do with the money we make — which is stupid really , when I know that I could so easily give them so much more — But that would be nothing , for what I have done with Matey has been done by me , and not by Papa , for that is what giving them his money would mean .
6 Since many associates who were not blood relations often assumed the surname but between them could muster only a limited number of Christian names , confusion was avoided by the bestowal of what we might call a nickname , or what has been more justly described as a ‘ toname ’ .
7 He , too , is constrained in his interpretation by past similar experience , by interpreting in the light of what we might call the principle of analogy .
8 And so we were involved a great deal in what we would call ‘ protesting ’ but as far as political activity , that was never my thing .
9 All these examples are part and parcel of what we can encounter in higher education courses .
10 The reasons for this deficit are largely associated with the , the trend of pay and price increases outstripping our income , and outstripping our projections of what we would have to spend .
11 I 've yet to see a case of what we would define as really rape .
12 Whereas in many cases this is only one dimension , albeit an important one , in the case of what we might call theoretical ideology it constitutes the main organizing principle .
13 One of the most admired features of the educational systems in France , Germany , and Denmark is the way they integrate a substantial proportion of what we would call ‘ general education ’ into their vocational programmes .
14 Even if the brain were designed so that components could be easily removed , there is the issue of what we can conclude about the functions of its components from knowing the effects of removing one of them .
15 Thus to be a " bastard " , or the child of what we would call a " broken home " , means simply to have many parents and to be part of a larger , stronger family .
16 It should not be a question of making do with what we have but a question of what we should have .
17 Furthermore , there are certain limitations to what we can learn from science because the concept of replication does not obtain in police investigation .
18 Over the years , the experts seem to have got in all of a lather over what we should do to cleanse our skin properly .
19 The first phase , that of the theologians of the 1950s and the central issues of the Council itself , might be characterized as ultramontanism versus what we may call ( using an old term , now largely abandoned ) Cisalpinism .
20 But during our holiday visit we found exactly what we wanted , helped by the way Jonathan used his imagination about what we might like , even though we had n't specified it . ’
21 The other major seems to be , to do with ideas about what we would qualify , but could equally well be called ritual purity and impurity .
22 Bagdikian argues that national boundaries are growing increasingly meaningless as the main actors ( five groups at the time he was writing ) strive for total control in the production , delivery , and marketing of what we can call the cultural-ideological goods of the global capitalist system .
23 We can but suppose that he practised the middle-class virtues of Samuel Smiles — those of hard work , thrift and sobriety — and embodied the very quintessence of what we would speak of today as the Protestant Work Ethic .
24 This ‘ raw material ’ is formed through an interaction between what we are born with and what we live through , or as James Michener puts it : ‘ Heredity establishes the perimeters of what we can accomplish ; environment determines whether we acquire the character to reach those perimeters ’ ( 1976 , p.130 ) .
25 Each new teacher is put through a period of what we can call social apprenticeship by the pupils in order to ascertain what sort of person and disciplinarian ( s ) he is going to be .
26 Ironically enough , Rameau was among the most resourceful and imaginative composers of his time in his treatment of the orchestra , and the least in need of what we might call d'Indification .
27 Finally , it is worth pointing out that , if my account of neoteny in man is correct , even the relatively ego-less citizen of the totalitarian state is the possessor of what we might term the neurophysiological substrate of the ego and the superego , which almost certainly comprises some of the most recently acquired elements of the human brain .
28 ( However , throughout this discussion I have ignored those psychosomatic disorders which might be the consequence of what we could call ‘ somatic externalization ’ .
29 This led us to concentrate our attention on what we may term ‘ main morality ’ religions where , whatever their nature , the spirits involved act as the puritanical censors of traditional morality .
30 But I , I , I think there is a conflict between what we would regard as being a , an acceptable subsistence level and what it would appear that the peasants could possibly have been achieving .
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