Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] what we [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But those wo n't , er if we were to take cashing those in now , it would be probably taking half of what we might get for them in the future , and from a business proposition , there is a time , when even if you have money in the bank , there are times , when it would be very advantageous to take long term interest rates , at low interest rates , and I think er er this is er perhaps the best opportunity that we have . |
| 2 | To gain that knowledge means we must not be afraid of what we may uncover within our nature in this process of self-analysis . |
| 3 | The theory has to cope with situations in which the dynamical properties of particles , such as electrons , protons and neutrons , and even atoms , are very different from what we would expect of a scaled-down billiard ball following its usual ‘ classical ’ behaviour . |
| 4 | As a matter of practice , and because we 've all got to live , we all draw about two-thirds of what we would have got last year as we go along , then share out the rest at the end of the year . ’ |
| 5 | More recently studies have attempted to refine their research methodologies so that reviews of this research are much clearer about what we can claim to know and not know about abuse and in particular that it is a much more complex problem than was first thought . |
| 6 | They do n't know much of what we can do |
| 7 | The public debate about political priorities focuses far too much on what we can do for today 's consumption and far too little about what we invest in the future . |
| 8 | Luckily penicillin became available and was found to be highly effective in what we would consider today to be almost homeopathic doses . |
| 9 | Is it part of the Government 's duty to advise us all on what we should eat ? |
| 10 | It showed that our formal control and planning mechanisms fell far short of what we would like . |
| 11 | Not to be over-selfish with what we may gain , |
| 12 | There is no doubt that factors like these are important in what we may call the social ‘ life ’ of language , and they are implicated in many aspects of linguistic variation and change . |
| 13 | Without the recession it would be higher but we must be thankful for what we can get in these times when other railways are reporting reductions of up to 20 percent . |
| 14 | Rangers manager Walter Smith still believes that Marseilles have a slight edge as they have to face Rangers at home on April 7 but he said : ‘ I 'm still optimistic about what we can do in our home games . ’ |
| 15 | if I do that you 've all got to scatter and we were really worried about what we might find . |
| 16 | We become insensitive to what we might call the ‘ once and might have been ’ of faith . |
| 17 | I shall now say a word or two about what we should do , not just nationally , but internationally . |
| 18 | For some reason he was terrified about what we might have said of him behind his back . |