Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] [prep] [Wh det] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You see , my dear , we had a little difficulty over which should adorn the top of the tree , the star of Bethlehem which is of course the only proper thing as well as being the only thing countenanced by the Rector , or an immensely glittering and unsuitable fairy doll someone was so ill-judged as to give to Helen . |
| 2 | At this point , planning provided little guidance to what would follow ; the difficulties of extemporizing new manoeuvres were enormous and helped to reinforce the prevailing view that the overriding aim must be an early victory obtained essentially by good initial deployment . |
| 3 | I 've put , put this heater on which might give us a little bit of , a little bit of warmth |
| 4 | This distinction between what would happen and what might happen is crucial for what follows . |
| 5 | As to what steps may be effective to prevent a holding out , there may be some discrepancy between what will suffice for the Law Society to exempt a salaried partner from compliance with the professional rules already referred to and what the Court might regard as appropriate in proceedings brought by a creditor of the firm . |
| 6 | During the second year of life children start to develop some understanding of what will upset and annoy a sibling . |
| 7 | Meanwhile , potential creators of university-related science institutions in the UK could do worse than read Koppes 's book for some idea of what might await them . |
| 8 | As Webster goes on to point out , when study of the cuneiform records revealed that the Babylonian shabbatum ( full-moon day ) also fell on the fourteenth ( or fifteenth ) day of the month , we were presented with another survival of what must have been the primary meaning of the Hebrew term shabbath . |
| 9 | The apostle Paul , while encouraging the Corinthians earnestly to desire spiritual gifts , especially that they might prophesy , has another conviction about what will build up the church , namely , the preaching and teaching of scripture . |
| 10 | A penny novelette plot you might think , but Susan Hill deals with the themes of love and jealousy with such delicacy and such understanding of what might happen but never does that this , her first novel for 16 years , is equal to her best . |
| 11 | His fear focused his whole concentration on the tiny circle of steel pressed against his flinching neck , and on the white-knuckled finger he could imagine curled round the little half moon of metal — the least movement of which would blast him out of existence . |
| 12 | Terry Sangwin , the nurse manager for the medical unit , thought staff in the hospital still needed much more information about what would happen , and she feared the planners did n't realise the impact community care might have on acute hospitals . |
| 13 | We may conclude that violence is such a wide term that we need a typology , each item of which may have its own consequences and causes and so be best dealt with by different interventions . |
| 14 | This may be done by a provision such as : If the Seller is in breach of this term the Buyer may reject the goods and terminate the contract [ making the term a condition ] or The Buyer will accept the goods even if they are delivered late and late delivery will not entitle the buyer to terminate the contract [ making the term a warranty ] or by using the words " condition " and " warranty " and then defining them in the contract : " condition " means a term of this contract any breach of which will entitle the party not in breach to ( i ) terminate the contract and ( ii ) claim damages for losses caused by breach of condition whether or not he terminates the contract . |