Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] what they [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In such circumstances , it is effrontery that my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Monklands , East and my hon. Friend the Member for Derby , South ( Mrs. Beckett ) should be attacked for what they might do , instead of the Government being brought to account for what they have done and continue to do . |
| 2 | Researchers are not constrained to what they can observe or experience directly , but are able to cover as many facets of as many people as resources allow . |
| 3 | Bills would arrive and I 'd just leave them unopened , frightened of what they 'd say . |
| 4 | Their measure of their health status was related to what they could do , rather than to the presence of current disease or conditions . |
| 5 | In the 1990s the report of these professional organizations who constituted a separate industry , was based on what they could discover about the applicant 's known record to date as regards prompt and full payment , on the applicant 's own assertions and , controversially ( because of possible contravention of the Data Protection Act ) information volunteered upon questioning by third parties . |
| 6 | Children should be judged on what they can do and on what they know , not on who they are . |
| 7 | The minds of the other literate villagers were dissipated on what they could pick up in a random manner : most of it naturally consisted of religious tracts , the traditional fodder left over from the past . |
| 8 | They may have some specific items that are to be bought but they also have a general readiness to look around and be tempted by what they might see . |
| 9 | Most of us have the luxury of choice but others are limited by what they can do by their physical disabilities . |
| 10 | The debt-counselling charities shoulder much of the burden ; here Citizens Advice Bureaux workers from all over Oxfordshire are themselves advised on what they should tell the desperate people who come to them for help because of spiralling debt . |