Example sentences of "[prep] what [pron] [modal v] [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Advice on Savings — how best to look after what you can afford to save . |
| 2 | It is also considering what it can do to meet the demand for more information by such measures as explanatory videos , evening classes or workplace clinics . |
| 3 | The reasons for this deficit are largely associated with the , the trend of pay and price increases outstripping our income , and outstripping our projections of what we would have to spend . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Yet in the end this too can be counterproductive , with children becoming confused or cynical in the face of what they may begin to see as so much mere noise . |
| 6 | Yet , the medicalization of health within our society has left people generally unaware of what they can do to maintain their own health . |
| 7 | This is where Alan Davies came in , and if the latest coach 's previous career with England B , the Midlands and Nottingham had proved anything it was that pragmatism — what you have to do — comes before even the noblest notion of what you would like to do . |
| 8 | How fortunate you are to have found yet another chance at happiness together , with a better understanding than most people of what you should do to make a successful marriage , and how much you will gain . |
| 9 | Most of what you 'd want to do in a DTP package you can do with WordPerfect 5.1 , if a little awkwardly . |
| 10 | For details of what you can do to support these sisters contact the Palestinian Women 's Group , c/o 21 Collingham Road , London SWS ONU . |
| 11 | Of what you can do to make things better for others . |
| 12 | Of what you can do to make this a better place to live . |
| 13 | Yet the final equation of what you can afford to spend on a new car is likely to be influenced by what you get for the old one . |
| 14 | And all the time my cut thumb reminded me of what I must forget to stay sane ; all the time sick with worry about what 's happening to me so I have to keep ordering myself : Think about the invalid . |
| 15 | On the supporters ' calls for his removal , he said : ‘ The supporters wo n't change my opinion of what I 'd like to do at Darlington . |
| 16 | Yet , in this context , Professor Heinz Woolf of Brunel University has frequently discussed the use of what he would prefer to call ‘ tools for living ’ rather than ‘ aids for the handicapped ’ , on the basis that customers should be able to purchase these items without having a disabled label attached to themselves . |
| 17 | Apart from in scene nine , where Anderson displays occasional discomfort through his hesitations ( 4 instances , most notably when explaining to Sacha why he came to the Hollars ' apartment ( p. 81 ) , and when giving assurances of what he will do to help Pavel ( p. 83 ) ) , we find very few instances of hesitations or unfinished turns ( no more than one instance of each in scenes seven , eight , ten and sixteen ) . |
| 18 | In the cynical world of F1 , we tend to accept the number of noughts as a driver 's way of keeping score , but the local bricklayer has an acute realisation of what he could afford to buy with £6,000,000 ! |
| 19 | In fact , this would pay to rebuild only the most modest house , and the table below gives examples of what it would cost to rebuild different types of houses in different parts of the country . |
| 20 | This outlay represents around a fifth of what it would cost to dispose of the waste locally . |
| 21 | As part of the process of clarifying what might be meant by brainwashing , I proposed a working definition of what it might mean to make a choice : |
| 22 | Hill climbing is so called because it is like what one would do to find the top of a hill in a Scottish mist : Keep going up . |
| 23 | On a theory of understanding which linked what we can understand with what we could come to recognise as true , the distinction collapses and all the relevant sceptical arguments will be of the strongest type ; that is , will claim that we do not even understand the propositions we claim to know . |
| 24 | The upshot is a version of what is known as preference utilitarianism , for which what counts in favour of an act is not that it promotes a kind of experience known as pleasure or prevents a kind of experience called pain , but that it provides people with what they would prefer to have and prevents their having what they would prefer not to have . |
| 25 | Work out what you want to know , write down the approximate question you think will bring out the right answer and then in a third column put a percentage to represent how much the answer equates with what you would like to hear . |
| 26 | ‘ It must depend upon what you would like to do with your share . ’ |
| 27 | When we have what one might call this coarse-cut overview , we then have tended to approach the businesses and ask them to produce a variety of scenarios ranging from what they would like to do in a totally free world with access to unlimited money , to the extremes of divestiture at the other end . |
| 28 | Over the years , the experts seem to have got in all of a lather over what we should do to cleanse our skin properly . |
| 29 | Benjamin and Elizabeth and their family belonged , in effect , to what we might choose to call the ‘ comfortable working class ’ ; they benefited from the general rise in Britain 's prosperity in Victorian times — cheaper food and clothing , better sanitation , faster transport , more substantial housing — but their money still had to be earned , had to be worked for . |
| 30 | This is in direct contrast to what we might expect to follow according to the inductivist view , namely , that in order to establish the truth of some problematic observation statement we appeal to more secure observation statements , and perhaps laws derived inductively from them , but not to theory . |