Example sentences of "[modal v] [pers pn] [vb infin] about the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If there is a power cut for 3 hours , what should you do about the contents of your freezer ? |
| 2 | As one Nigerian journalist explains , most African leaders have their drinking water imported from Europe — so why should they bother about the danger that dumped waste might contaminate underground water ? |
| 3 | What other things might we think about the trainee ? |
| 4 | ‘ What 'll we do about the tape ? ’ asked Camille . |
| 5 | What shall I do about the stuff that I have n't done ? |
| 6 | What would you say about the fact , the thing that struck me about that , ‘ Councillor Grubb today made first call to the helpline , he said , ‘ a free service ’ which , to me , sounded as though what he actually said down the phone to the helpline was |
| 7 | Will you remember about the letter ? |
| 8 | Neither can I complain about the standards of execution , which are on the whole extremely impressive . |
| 9 | What can I say about the sculptor that designed the molecules of the grenadilla whose shape causes this ecstasy in the matrix of the senses ? |
| 10 | What can you do about the ones which can be changed ? |
| 11 | So why does such a great amount of personnel change — can you explain about the points system here . |
| 12 | Can you remember about the shell Mark , what happens when we put the shell in ? |
| 13 | What can you say about the lengths of MJ and JP ? |
| 14 | What can you say about the game that was n't said in the last caption ? |
| 15 | What , then , can we conclude about the contribution that political sociology has made to understanding more clearly the main trends of political change in the twentieth century , and to influencing the course of events ? |
| 16 | Morgan ( 1975 : 442 ) asks ‘ What can we infer about the speaker 's intentions from the fact that he has chosen this particular description , rather than any of the others which would call to mind the same referent ? ’ |
| 17 | What can we do about the problem ? |
| 18 | The question is not what can we do about the greenhouse effect , but why do n't we do anything ? |
| 19 | So what can we learn about the oceans from this coral slab ? |
| 20 | What can we say about the laws derived in the last chapter ? |
| 21 | 3.9 What now can we say about the restriction of postnominal occurrence to a subset of adjectives ? |
| 22 | Leaving aside this rather striking example of language shift , what can we say about the role of JC for young black Londoners ? |
| 23 | What can we say about the line integral of the electric field ? |
| 24 | On the basis of these examples , what can we say about the requirements of the information-based organization ? |
| 25 | What can they suggest about the character 's background and personality ? |