Example sentences of "[subord] [prep] [Wh det] [pron] [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My peers are more tolerant , more willing to accept me for what I am rather than for what I might produce or become in the hierarchy . |
| 2 | And I am more worried about what he thinks of me than of what he might do to Havvie . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Er — you 've — hm — not told me any more lies , then ? ’ she strove desperately hard to get herself back together , although from what she could see of it Ven was n't objecting that his kisses had the power to scatter all sensible thought . |
| 4 | He was altogether more interested , on the surface at any rate , in what he found there than in what he could observe of people and events around him . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Because of what they would have done to us . ’ |
| 7 | As we will see , hesitations are an important subject of study because of what they can reveal about the mechanisms being employed when people produce spoken language . |
| 8 | ‘ Perhaps Mistress Hopkins was murdered simply because of what she might know . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ That poor old woman was murdered , ’ Benjamin declared , ‘ not because she had said or done anything wrong but simply because of what she might know . |
| 10 | After the words he had written to her , it was churlish of her to avoid him , but she dreaded any interview because of what she must say . |
| 11 | He wanted to find her , certainly , but not so much because of his job as a reporter , rather because of what he might learn from her . |
| 12 | ‘ Because of what you might have remembered since . ’ |
| 13 | I use it only because of what it can become in later stages of evolution : the power of a snake 's fang , for instance , to propagate ( by its indirect consequences on snake survival ) DNA coding for fangs . |
| 14 | But you can see why if you 're selling inappropriately , if you sell someone for example , a savings plan , and they cash it in the first four years , and they do n't even get what they paid in it , how they 're going to be very annoyed , because from what they could see , they were getting a savings plan . |
| 15 | Finally , All that Dwell Therein shows that the debate is important , not just for the effect it might ultimately have on our treatment of animals , but for what it might reveal about ourselves . |
| 16 | " Why does n't your father tell him to go ? " asked Clara , for from what she could recollect of Mr Denham , she could not picture him suffering fools gladly . |
| 17 | We think now , as Christmas approaches , and that elusive fishkeeping present becomes top priority , is the perfect time to get the unbiased recommendations of our experts as to what they would buy , given the chance . |
| 18 | P. A friendly person , someone who is good to session with , someone who can appreciate someone else 's skating and not to judge them as to what they can do but also who they are and how they are . |
| 19 | There is a difference , I think , between making children feel responsible for righting the wrongs of the world that we as adults have created , but at the same time to be able to enable them to think constructively as to what they can do . |
| 20 | In theory it is possible to obtain insurance against warranty liability ( e.g. Directors and officers ) but in practice the insurers are normally so demanding in the kind of confirmations they require and so restrictive as to what they will insure ( eg not taxation ) that this is rarely practicable or worthwhile . |
| 21 | My legacy to my children would be not to try to influence them in any way as to what they should study . |
| 22 | When the time came there was not much doubt as to what they should do . |
| 23 | They will not be pressurised as to what they should put on or should not put on . |
| 24 | Even when you have reached a rational decision as to what they should learn , watching them do it can be agony as well as ecstasy . |
| 25 | They were walking round the house speculating as to what they should sell and had paused here in this far from gloomy room , this warm , sunny , charming room , and laughed at that gloomy picture , at its sentimental naivety . |
| 26 | I only wish I was clear as to what we will do myself , you may be sure . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ It gave everyone a good introduction as to what we can expect — the weather was hot and the pitch typically flat . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Violette has even advised me as to what you might like . |
| 29 | It is important to leave yourself enough time before the wedding in order to give much consideration as to what you would like to say , to do any research necessary , as well as to write your speech and to perform any last minute pruning . |
| 30 | Are you open to suggestions from the educational field as a whole as to what you should do and what 's important and so on ? |