Example sentences of "[prep] what they [vb mod] [vb infin] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The by-laws were lawful not because of what they said but rather because of what they would have said if they had been drafted lawfully . |
| 2 | Because of what they would have done to us . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Yet , the medicalization of health within our society has left people generally unaware of what they can do to maintain their own health . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | They were accordingly satisfied that the trial judge misdirected the jury when he stated that the case against the first appellant depended solely upon what they could find proved that he himself did . |
| 8 | Piers asked Alyssia pleasantly , and she again felt as though they were both making an enormous effort to include her in what they would have preferred to be an intimate tête-à-tête . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | But even if we accept that there is a significant difference between the ‘ legal ’ and ‘ political ’ processes in the way in which decisions are reached , they would both still come firmly within the definition of power we adopted in part I , that is the ability to get others to do what you want them to , assuming this is different from what they would have done anyway , with the use or threat of sanctions if necessary . |
| 11 | However , the majority of teachers who were interviewed claimed that they had not done anything different from what they would have done were they not being observed , but that they had probably prepared lessons more carefully and thought things through more . |
| 12 | If by our standards their lot was a hard one , what they suffered inside was nothing to what they would have had to endure outside from a still brutalised populace . |
| 13 | Offers the nearest you will now get to an ‘ 84 Charing Cross Road ’ service , even advising clients ( Lord Lambton , Sean Connery ) on what they might like to read . |
| 14 | The award asks children between the ages of nine and 12 to write about what they would like to do when they grow up . |
| 15 | At first Kate was frightened about what they 'd find to talk about , but she need n't have worried . |
| 16 | It helps if couples can think in advance about what retirement will be like-to think individually about what they 'd like to happen , and even more importantly , to talk to each other about what they 'd like to happen . |
| 17 | It helps if couples can think in advance about what retirement will be like-to think individually about what they 'd like to happen , and even more importantly , to talk to each other about what they 'd like to happen . |
| 18 | Discussions about what they should wear had been interspersed with sexy gossip concerning the star of the occasion , Nathan Bryce . |
| 19 | ‘ No one comes to me after our matches to talk about what they could have done better , ’ said Durie . |
| 20 | They could see Mr Flood fussing round the window of his shop as if he were still worried about what they could have found so amusing in its contents . |
| 21 | Forgive others for what they may have done to you in the past ; and forgive yourself as well — you have probably learned much from your mistakes . |
| 22 | Even allowing for what they would have lost on laundering the proceeds , there should have been a tidy sum . |
| 23 | A special spinners ' mat was laid down at pre-tour net sessions at Lilleshall in an effort to prepare England 's batsmen for what they could expect to face on dusty Indian pitches . |
| 24 | It is the same with all new expressions : there is one colour for what the trainees need to understand ( what they will hear ) and another colour for what they will need to use ( what they will say ) . |