Example sentences of "[prep] what [pron] [modal v] [vb infin] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How could I do that after what I 'd read in Billy 's bedroom ? |
| 2 | And as you 'd expect from Enterprise , all these prices are well below what you would pay in resort anyway . |
| 3 | To gain that knowledge means we must not be afraid of what we may uncover within our nature in this process of self-analysis . |
| 4 | It must also be remembered that the working life of what we might regard as identical batteries tends to vary . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I have so looked forward to it , making all the things with Matey , and thinking of what we shall do with the money we make — which is stupid really , when I know that I could so easily give them so much more — But that would be nothing , for what I have done with Matey has been done by me , and not by Papa , for that is what giving them his money would mean . |
| 7 | We can but suppose that he practised the middle-class virtues of Samuel Smiles — those of hard work , thrift and sobriety — and embodied the very quintessence of what we would speak of today as the Protestant Work Ethic . |
| 8 | Some of the early researchers took a pessimistic view of what we would lose with the disappearance of native languages . |
| 9 | Instead of what we would consider to be a reasonable programme for the provision of services , and an increase in control by local people over such provision by holding to account those whom they elect , we have the Conservative party slogans of privatise , centralise and neutralise . |
| 10 | It all seemed too important for that : a warning of what was inside us all as human beings and of what we must avoid at all costs . |
| 11 | He wrote what became a celebrated memorandum to Cordell Hull , the secretary of state , in which he declared that he was " thrilled by the idea of using iran as an example of what we could do by an unselfish American policy . |
| 12 | The idea that compliance with profit maximisation should be enforced through shareholder supervision and control lies at the centre of what we will refer to as the ‘ ownership model ’ of the company . |
| 13 | Even if the brain were designed so that components could be easily removed , there is the issue of what we can conclude about the functions of its components from knowing the effects of removing one of them . |
| 14 | All these examples are part and parcel of what we can encounter in higher education courses . |
| 15 | It is not possible here to give anything like a complete view of what we can learn from coin designs , and the following discussion will only characterise some of the potential and the pitfalls of using them . |
| 16 | erm this is a more abstract research project , which is concerned with the idea that we may , very soon perhaps , reach the limit of what we can cram onto a silicon chip . |
| 17 | erm it may be that erm because of my generation , but you do n't get the same sort of personalities nowadays as you did in those days , erm Mr for instance he was , he was a most benign sort of erm fellow of what one would describe as a real gentleman mm , mind you he used to have his paddies at times but |
| 18 | He knew why they had swept him from his horse and he was terrified of what they would do to him . |
| 19 | Consumers are prepared to wait for sales and even go for cheaper versions of what they would buy in better times , says a survey published yesterday . |
| 20 | Both speakers will give an account of their work and of what they would like from a supervisor . |
| 21 | Only the husk , the empty shell of what they 'd come for . |
| 22 | It is not other people or outward events that cause harmful stress , but the way we perceive such external factors and our fears of what they will do to us . |
| 23 | If we designed a questionnaire to ask people what they did in their free time , how would we know whether the answers we received gave us a true picture of how they spend that time ; or a picture of what they will say to a researcher when they are asked the question ? |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | And we 're going to take some perfectly ordinary facets of life and try to address them in terms of what they should mean to the Christian believer . |
| 26 | I admit it sounds like a lot ; but that 's because everybody thinks of what they could do with it if it ended up in their bank account . |
| 27 | She decided to remain where she was until she could be sure of what she would find outside the closed front door . |
| 28 | The sweat that had begun in anticipation of what she might encounter in the street now ran in fear of her mother 's rage ; Nunzia 's eyes had gone hard and wrinkled like black olive pips when Rosa had produced the plover , and she had clucked impatiently with her tongue when Rosa lied and said her grandfather had shot it and presented it to her . |
| 29 | She did not begin to think of what she might say to Kathleen . |
| 30 | She was working for his charity for a third of what she could earn in the City , he enthused . |