Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] what they [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clearly some very large forces have disrupted the outer regions of the Solar System at some stage , or stages , in the past , but we have no idea of when or of what they might have been . |
| 2 | Alan was well aware of his own gifts and of what they might lead him to become , but I am not sure he entirely welcomed his role as a leader of lesser men . |
| 3 | Both speakers will give an account of their work and of what they would like from a supervisor . |
| 4 | After checking this balancing they increased the current further to three times the starting value , and discovered an excess heat output of ten per cent over and above what they could account for going in . |
| 5 | ‘ They had a wonderful pioneering style and pride both in what they had achieved and in what they could teach you . |
| 6 | The aim is to test children both in what they know and in what they can do . |
| 7 | Make sure that there is a briefing before the visit — that people know why they are going and on what they should concentrate their attention . |
| 8 | The by-laws were lawful not because of what they said but rather because of what they would have said if they had been drafted lawfully . |
| 9 | Because of what they would have done to us . ’ |
| 10 | As we will see , hesitations are an important subject of study because of what they can reveal about the mechanisms being employed when people produce spoken language . |
| 11 | But you can see why if you 're selling inappropriately , if you sell someone for example , a savings plan , and they cash it in the first four years , and they do n't even get what they paid in it , how they 're going to be very annoyed , because from what they could see , they were getting a savings plan . |
| 12 | We think now , as Christmas approaches , and that elusive fishkeeping present becomes top priority , is the perfect time to get the unbiased recommendations of our experts as to what they would buy , given the chance . |
| 13 | P. A friendly person , someone who is good to session with , someone who can appreciate someone else 's skating and not to judge them as to what they can do but also who they are and how they are . |
| 14 | There is a difference , I think , between making children feel responsible for righting the wrongs of the world that we as adults have created , but at the same time to be able to enable them to think constructively as to what they can do . |
| 15 | In theory it is possible to obtain insurance against warranty liability ( e.g. Directors and officers ) but in practice the insurers are normally so demanding in the kind of confirmations they require and so restrictive as to what they will insure ( eg not taxation ) that this is rarely practicable or worthwhile . |
| 16 | My legacy to my children would be not to try to influence them in any way as to what they should study . |
| 17 | When the time came there was not much doubt as to what they should do . |
| 18 | They will not be pressurised as to what they should put on or should not put on . |
| 19 | Even when you have reached a rational decision as to what they should learn , watching them do it can be agony as well as ecstasy . |
| 20 | They were walking round the house speculating as to what they should sell and had paused here in this far from gloomy room , this warm , sunny , charming room , and laughed at that gloomy picture , at its sentimental naivety . |