Example sentences of "[noun pl] of what [pers pn] [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her imagination jagged with tumbling violent images of what he might do to her . |
| 2 | Four of them are in cities of what you might regard as being of particular interest — Tripoli , Beirut , Damascus and Baghdad . ’ |
| 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 | But rigging and sails did , and once I was on deck , coiling and sorting the ropes and making notes of what I would need , I barely noticed anything else , time slipping by and my mind so concentrated on the job that I barely felt the wind force rising , small frozen particles of snow driving almost horizontally . |
| 5 | Consumers judge quality by comparing the service they receive against expectations of what they should receive . |
| 6 | In our case , of course , it is a mature , open and enquiring critical mind that leads us to read on into the churls ' tales of " harlotrie " , not a degrading taste for such material and a lack of interest in : We might see the combination of the intrinsically low status of the Miller and the consequently low expectations of what he will produce with the sophistication of his narrative performance as simply an entertaining absurdity , or perhaps a burlesque , like Chauntecleer 's discursive pomp and display in the Nun 's Priest 's Tale . |
| 7 | This ‘ raw material ’ is formed through an interaction between what we are born with and what we live through , or as James Michener puts it : ‘ Heredity establishes the perimeters of what we can accomplish ; environment determines whether we acquire the character to reach those perimeters ’ ( 1976 , p.130 ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The sunlight and cloud came and went , rode over and away on , just as possibilities of what he would do next did . |
| 10 | Many guests visit restaurants with preconceived ideas of what they should eat . |
| 11 | Anyone who has romantic ideas of what it must have been like for great women and men to be filled with God 's Spirit should think again if the story of Mary is anything to go by . |
| 12 | Everyone seemed to have different ideas of what you should do . |
| 13 | During the February 1975 House of Commons debate on plans by the Wilson Government to increase the civil list allowances to the royal family , Kinnock , then an MP of five years standing , launched into a characteristically blustering attack on ‘ the senior executives of what I may call ‘ the Crown Limited ’ , who were ‘ outrageously overpaid ’ . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | In the event , the deal which has emerged in Taif has justified the general 's fears of what he would regard as a sell-out of the Maronite cause . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I 'd be much more impressed by some positive suggestions of what we might do cos I th you know , months ago I was browbeaten outside church over a lot of similar issues and I said then , you know |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | For them , the cost is this anxiety , and the fact that ( because of the rate of charge on their credit obligations , which commonly is high ) they are poorer , in terms of what they can buy , than they would otherwise have been . |
| 20 | Drawbacks : Expensive but , in terms of what it can do , this microwave is good enough to replace a conventional oven ( although remember cooking space is limited in that you could n't , say , do the roast and vegetables at the same time ) . |
| 21 | I will discount those timeshare marketing there 's four months in that erm with two companies would n't count in terms of what I would call overall experience . |
| 22 | I suppose while this is for me cos on the sponsorship issue is , would sponsorship have any impact in terms of what I might purchase so if I went to the Scottish Opera or the ballet or to the theatre and I bought a programme which I usually do and one of the things which is interesting about the evening that erm Alan and I spent last time at Scottish Council was that half the people attend Scottish Opera buy a programme and the programmes that I have sponsored always . |
| 23 | So actually it 's quite generous in terms of what you can earn before you actually pay tax . |
| 24 | I 'm always a little bit worried about them because it seems to me that they almost define the syllabus in terms of what you can ask four reasonable questions in terms of alternatives about . |
| 25 | In spite of this , advertisers , agencies and researchers persist in pushing the interpretation of recall well beyond the limits of what it can tell them . |
| 26 | ‘ The ramifications of what it would mean has not yet been understood , either by Scotland or elsewhere in the UK . ’ |
| 27 | Nevertheless , if we are ever to make new discoveries about intonation , it will be as a result of studying what people actually say rather than inventing examples of what they might say . |
| 28 | The treatment techniques we describe are not a treatment programme as such : they are examples of what you might see the patient doing , with explanations of what the physiotherapist is trying to achieve , and how the patient should respond . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Accordingly his choices of what he should say and do , and how and when , are his means to conserve and tap the sources of his power . |