Example sentences of "[prep] what [pron] would [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has the effect of reducing both public expenditure and the budget deficit below what they would otherwise have been . |
| 2 | Thank goodness we were never occupied — not so much because of what the occupiers might have done to us , but because of what we would probably have done to each other . |
| 3 | In the case of what we would now distinguish as ‘ arts ’ , an early example is the fourteenth-century Florentine guild , actually that of the surgeon apothecaries but including painters from an overlap of working materials . |
| 4 | A rather chilling symbol of what we would now regard as the male chauvinism of the times is furnished by the wording and the sentiments contained in an Act of Parliament passed in the year Charles and Elizabeth were married , 1770 : |
| 5 | Even so , Baden-Powell 's intriguing romanticisation of what we would now call ‘ muggings ’ was not an uncommon response in these years . |
| 6 | Between these two pieces of legislation directed against " cottagers " and " paupers " — in other words against squatters — there occurred the most famous of what we would now call " ideologically-inspired " squats , that of Winstanley and the Diggers at Walton-on-Thames in Surrey in 1649 . |
| 7 | That is they would really be the beginnings of what we would now call travelogues . |
| 8 | Whether that would be in China or another country depended on the unknown factors of what they would actually find overseas and the outcome of developments in China . |
| 9 | The Lollard rising of Sir John Oldcastle in 1414 had no social aims ; indeed the rebels do not appear to have had any programme at all , beyond a vague idea of seizing the King ( without any very clear idea of what they would then do with him ) . |
| 10 | As part of what he would later call his ‘ quiet revolution ’ , Heath made detailed preparations for a new style of government , business-like , rational and free of Wilsonian gimmickry . |
| 11 | There is no room here for a highly technical debate about language , but what is clear is that Christianity can not possibly associate any view of God with what we would normally conceive a person to be . |
| 12 | In music , the quantitative usage ( ‘ well favoured ’ ) seems to have come to the fore in the eighteenth century — alongside the development of a ( bourgeois ) commercial market in musical products ; and when , in the first half of the nineteenth century , songs for the bourgeois market ( including what we would now call ‘ drawing-room ballads ’ ) were described as ‘ popular songs ’ , the intended implication seems to have been that they were good ( that is , well liked by those whose opinion counted ) . |
| 13 | Place the fish in an aquarium with just enough depth of water for it so swim in and increase the temperature to 5–6°C above what you would normally keep it at . |
| 14 | In these early days Highlander worked with people in what we would now term industrial relations and workers ' education . |
| 15 | Thus , while at the peak of his long and difficult reign , and while engaged upon an ideal cause that represented all that he stood for in terms of imperial and religious aims , Frederick Barbarossa probably died from what we would now recognise as a massive heart failure . |
| 16 | This may have had an effect on the conversation : first , in respect of the content , which may have been different from what they would otherwise have talked about , and secondly in that the girls may have tried consciously to use " Jamaican " . |
| 17 | The aim of this study is to determine the economic and political factors which cause prices and incomes controls to be imposed and to determine their effects on economic variables taking into acount the possibility that decision-makers make informed guesses about the probability of the onset of controls and thus alter their behaviour from what it would otherwise have been . |
| 18 | Er , we believe that there is a shortfall , if I can put it that way , in quotes , of some seven hundred and fifty thousand in ninety four , ninety five , over what we would otherwise have expected to get if the previous method of distribution er , had been stuck with . |
| 19 | It can be used to obtain responses from pupils beyond what they would otherwise achieve . |
| 20 | Can not the sort of difficulty which the theist experiences in terms of describing God , for instance , as personal and impersonal , be justified by pointing out that attempting to think beyond the limits of thought is bound to entail stretching ordinary language beyond what it would normally bear ? |
| 21 | So ba but what you are , but what you are telling , what you have told me is that erm there is , there is erm work being done to try and get people compensation in addition to what they would normally get |
| 22 | This may not be immediately obvious , and in some cases in may even appear to be contrary to what one would normally regard as " common sense " . |
| 23 | That is why the Government have provided an extra £28 million for economic regeneration in Lanarkshire in the current year and why up to an extra £25 million will be available to the Lanarkshire development agency , in addition to what it would otherwise have received in 1992-93 . |
| 24 | And then he left her alone , climbing the wooden stairs to what she would later learn were his own makeshift quarters on the floor above . |
| 25 | Nizan 's literary and political activities are in many ways best understood as a contribution to what he would doubtless have designated as a " cultural revolution " . |
| 26 | We are just as much annoyed as the ordinary racegoer because our entries are well down on what we would normally expect . ’ |
| 27 | She was embarking on what she would always regard as the pleasantest years of her life . |
| 28 | Mexico had agreed in February 1990 a debt reduction deal on some $90,000 million of commercial debts , with a probable saving of around $5,000 million on what it would otherwise have had to pay [ see p. 37243 ] . |
| 29 | Obviously you will save on heating bills , petrol , and if you book in all-inclusive holiday , on what you would otherwise have spent on food at home . |
| 30 | He had on what you 'd now call a yuppie look — baggy trousers and braces . |