Example sentences of "[adj] of [Wh det] [pron] [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 | The tour is designed to give pupils an opportunity to experience a variety of activities , some of which they may wish to develop in the future . |
| 3 | There were , and still are of course , immense difficulties in the way of quantifying human phenomena , some of which we shall touch on later . |
| 4 | Other tribal cosmologies exhibit analogous features some of which we shall consider later . |
| 5 | Into the vacancy in men 's minds left by the retreat of the centennial myths of Christianity , crept strange cults and substitute faiths , some of which we shall look at in chapter ten . |
| 6 | What strikes one about the names of the " few friends " is that there are so few of what one might call Islay family names . |
| 7 | His back was already turned , so he did not see Hilary Frome 's gesture , expressive of what he could do with the Cullbridge Athenaeum . |
| 8 | To gain that knowledge means we must not be afraid of what we may uncover within our nature in this process of self-analysis . |
| 9 | " I 'm afraid of what she 'll do , " the man says when I was looking in through the window , and then the other woman goes up to him and starts loving him . |
| 10 | He wanted to tell her the whole story then , but he was afraid of what she might think . |
| 11 | But still , for week after week , she never dared see if she was right , because she was afraid of what she might find within . |
| 12 | ‘ She was afraid of what he might do when she told him she was n't going to keep up the pretence any longer and everything she did in future was to be sold as her own work . ’ |
| 13 | Afraid of the occupant of that room , afraid of what he might find , yet , simultaneously , knowing exactly what he would find . |
| 14 | Yesterday , when I called at the house before the funeral I was afraid of what I would find . |
| 15 | I strolled on ( binoculars always at the ready , afraid of what I might miss ) as far as the Wire Dump Heligoland trap . |
| 16 | I told myself it was because you disgusted me , but really I was afraid of what I might do and say . |
| 17 | The real reason was that she was afraid of what I might find out . |
| 18 | You are afraid of what I will force you to see . |
| 19 | She hesitated , then went on in a small voice , ‘ I think I was afraid of what you could do to me . |
| 20 | ‘ How right I was , ’ she whispered , ‘ to be afraid of what you could do to me . ’ |
| 21 | Now she was perplexed and afraid ; perplexed because she did not understand what had happened , and afraid of what it might mean if she did . |
| 22 | With such facts in mind , the preference utilitarian may suggest that our aim should be not just that people should somehow have as much subjective experience as possible of the kinds they most prefer , but that as much as possible of what they would like to have happen should happen . |
| 23 | TENSE , the grammatical expression of time , is a source of two distinct kinds of problem , each of which we should consider . |
| 24 | For example , the Oxford Text Archive is a collection of computerised texts , each of which you can buy on floppy disc for the price of a printed copy . |
| 25 | Because of what has gone before , young people coming into residential care need security and a sense of belonging , neither of which they may have experienced in great measure before . |
| 26 | 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 . ’ |
| 27 | Yet , the medicalization of health within our society has left people generally unaware of what they can do to maintain their own health . |
| 28 | They do n't know much of what we can do |
| 29 | Much of what you will need for your study will be in the literary texts you have chosen — especially if you are reading annotated critical editions . |
| 30 | I should make it clear at the outset that I act as a parliamentary consultant to the Professional Association of Teachers and that much of what I shall say tonight will be based on the practical experience of PAT members . |