Example sentences of "[prep] what they [vb mod] [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 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 .
3 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 ) .
4 While zoos have limitations in what they can ever achieve , Belfast is demonstrating how the modern zoo is thinking of the welfare of its animal population first and the possible benefits to conservation of its work .
5 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 " .
6 In particular , in the interpretation of provisions of the SGA 1979 relating to implied terms , Lord Diplock said ( at p501 ) that the Act " ought not to be construed so narrowly as to force on parties to contracts for the sale of goods promises and consequences different from what they must reasonably have intended " .
7 It can be used to obtain responses from pupils beyond what they would otherwise achieve .
8 It 's about individual people realising they can do something beyond what they may normally expect to achieve . ’
9 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
10 So I ‘ open it an inch ’ and thus I delay further , giving them time to take it all in and to adjust to the exposure to what they must ultimately cope with : the witch addressing them directly .
11 It was the Parish Council themselves who had to consider things very quickly and go for what they could best endeavour but you c er I ca n't see how that can be used to nullify the general view of the public of South Milford and the other parishes .
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