Example sentences of "[adj] in [Wh det] [pron] [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The problem with all these stars , ’ said Peter Fairley , ‘ was that the moment they started to know that we were interested in what they could do , and we started to investigate how they did things , it just went . |
| 2 | They are only interested in what they can make out of it . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ It seems likely that you were the last person to see Glynn alive , apart from his murderer , but at the moment I am more interested in what you can tell me about him — the sort of man he was — and about his friends and his enemies as far as you can . |
| 4 | I 'm as interested in what you can discover about Heather 's state of mind as you are yourself , so it 's only fair I should contribute to your expenses . |
| 5 | What the Russians want is technical help and equipment , now our own industry is in decline er yes , particularly in machine tool industry , and I think the first thing we should do is to go over there and see what it is they actually needed , what they actually need right now , er one of your previous er correspondence , er speaker turned round and said well they 've got half finished buildings and things like that , I mean er , people have got to be put to work because people in co-ordinate employment is the only source of real wealth , but the market economy is n't interested in promoting real wealth , I mean it 's only interested in what it can get out of an economy not what it gives . |
| 6 | You did not tell me what you had been doing , or where you had been , and you were not interested in whatever I might have been doing . |
| 7 | Never buy a barn without planning permission for conversion , and be prepared to find that you are very restricted in what you can do to it . |
| 8 | It seems indisputable that in a minority of cases , the causes of the disturbing behaviour are located wholly outside the responsibilities of the school and that the school is impotent in what it can offer . |
| 9 | Luckily penicillin became available and was found to be highly effective in what we would consider today to be almost homeopathic doses . |
| 10 | Unix System Labs is set to kick off a Solution Providers Program May 17 in which it will partner with systems integrators such as EDS and make sales calls with them . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Those who left service for marriage were as often as not entering an economically less secure situation : rarely one in which they could expect to be " kept " in comfort . |
| 13 | It is hard to imagine circumstances in the 1990s in which they will have no significance . |