Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [prep] what [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At this point , planning provided little guidance to what would follow ; the difficulties of extemporizing new manoeuvres were enormous and helped to reinforce the prevailing view that the overriding aim must be an early victory obtained essentially by good initial deployment . |
| 2 | He puts great emphasis on the difficulties of prediction , and urges that where there are rules to which people do in fact adhere for the most part , and which help maintain the social stability required for any kind of good to flourish , we are likely to come nearest to doing what is objectively right ( in terms of its actual consequences ) if we also stick to the rules , but that where the rules , however useful they would be if generally obeyed , are widely flouted we should make a direct judgement of what will have the best consequences . |
| 3 | As for the first , it should be remembered that for an Epicurean the worst pain is the groundless fear of what may happen after death , and that excessive unnatural desires are painful too . |
| 4 | This distinction between what would happen and what might happen is crucial for what follows . |
| 5 | I think that for once we need feel no qualms in taking Diodorus as a faithful epitomizer of what must have been a compact and careful section of Posidonius on the slave war in Sicily . |
| 6 | For all his socialist language he was really an old style Tory Radical , despising the ‘ system ’ yet not possessing a clear vision of what would replace it . |
| 7 | Only the historic fact that he gave the Irish capital the first public performance of what would become the most popular of all oratorios . |
| 8 | In men undergoing elective inguinal hernia repair a very detailed account of what might go wrong does not increase patient anxiety significantly and has the advantage of allowing patients a fully informed choice before they consent to surgery , thus reducing the potential for subsequent litigation . |
| 9 | As to what steps may be effective to prevent a holding out , there may be some discrepancy between what will suffice for the Law Society to exempt a salaried partner from compliance with the professional rules already referred to and what the Court might regard as appropriate in proceedings brought by a creditor of the firm . |
| 10 | But until last night , there had been no clear line over what would happen in future years to the Government 's remaining holdings in these utilities . |
| 11 | It may result from inconveniently timed appointments or travel difficulties ; or it may be because the patient lacks clear understanding of what will happen if he does attend . |
| 12 | It is much more closely concerned with how closely the police adhere to the kind of standards the public expects from any large organisation , including promptness , a sympathetic attitude which indicates individual attention , some conspicuous activity and clear information about what will happen next . ’ |
| 13 | During the second year of life children start to develop some understanding of what will upset and annoy a sibling . |
| 14 | Meanwhile , potential creators of university-related science institutions in the UK could do worse than read Koppes 's book for some idea of what might await them . |
| 15 | As Webster goes on to point out , when study of the cuneiform records revealed that the Babylonian shabbatum ( full-moon day ) also fell on the fourteenth ( or fifteenth ) day of the month , we were presented with another survival of what must have been the primary meaning of the Hebrew term shabbath . |
| 16 | The apostle Paul , while encouraging the Corinthians earnestly to desire spiritual gifts , especially that they might prophesy , has another conviction about what will build up the church , namely , the preaching and teaching of scripture . |
| 17 | Only high spot from what should have been a red letter day was the terrific £300 raised for the local Hartlepool hospice . |
| 18 | That is in stark contrast to what would happen if ever the Labour party came to power , with its plans to reduce our spending on equipment by many billions of pounds . |
| 19 | At least the first time , she 'd only a vague notion of what might lie ahead . |
| 20 | The Ivory Coast is a fearful example of what can result from full scale exploitation . |
| 21 | If such passions are aroused in this Chamber today , there must be real concern about what will happen when it is discussed throughout the country . |
| 22 | Of course H is intended only as an easy illustration of what might go wrong — and go wrong it does in some of the important generalisations of Z that arise in Section 3.6 . |
| 23 | A penny novelette plot you might think , but Susan Hill deals with the themes of love and jealousy with such delicacy and such understanding of what might happen but never does that this , her first novel for 16 years , is equal to her best . |
| 24 | Kathryn , who is married with an 18-month-old daughter , said she was just curious to know whether these experiences could be connected with reincarnation and says that at times : ‘ I feel restless , a sort of sad yearning for what could have been a past life . ’ |
| 25 | She said : ‘ I did n't cry much — just a little weep for what might have been . |
| 26 | Gloucester never got themselves into gear and they made hard work of what should have been a straightforward game … in the second half they hammered away at Scottish … all but lived on their line but failed to get over it … |
| 27 | ‘ He was the worst leader of what should have been the best cause in the world . ’ |
| 28 | As three cheers rang out from a few dozen loyal supporters gathered in the street below , Mr Kinnock took off his glasses , put them in his pocket , and gave a wistful smile for what might have been to the colleagues clustered around him . |
| 29 | The 8100 is the more compelling indicator of what might happen to OS/2 2.0 : IBM spent so much money developing both the hardware and a completely new operating environment and set of compilers and utilities for the thing that it had to recoup its investment , come hell or high water , before it could be killed off , despite the fact that within a couple of years , it became clear that what users wanted as a distributed processor was the machine that eventually appeared — fatally too late — as the 9370 . |
| 30 | This account of how aircraft accident investigations are conducted , or should be conducted , in the field is necessarily only a brief outline of what can take place and does not include much of the work that goes on when the wreckage is examined in detail in a hangar , or in the case of AIB at their substantial facility at Farnborough . |