Example sentences of "[conj] what [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You will have seen , with as much surprise as pleasure , a child of nine play the harpsichord like the great masters ; & what will have astonished you even more was to hear from trustworthy persons that he already played it in a superior manner three years ago ; to know that almost everything he plays is of his own composition ; to have found in all his pieces , and even in his improvisations , that character of force which is the stamp of genius , that variety which proclaims the fire of imagination & that charm which proves an assured taste ; and lastly , to have seen him perform the most difficult pieces with an ease and a facility that would be surprising even in a musician of thirty … . |
| 2 | This task is made all the more necessary by the fact that opponents of absolute holism often find it strongly counter-intuitive , not to say absurd ; although they can grasp it at a very general level , they have difficulty in imagining either how it could be developed , or what would make it plausible . |
| 3 | who or what would upset him ? |
| 4 | While directors like Ken Russell and Nic Roeg carried on along their own idiosyncratic paths , and many of the directors who had flourished in the 1960s packed their bags for the trip to LA , there were no indications that those left behind had begun to face up to the economic realities of British film production , or what would have to be done to patch up the damage done to the craft of filmmaking , more particularly screenwriting , during the dead times of the 1950s and into the 1960s . |
| 5 | No one can be sure that wiser decisions on these points would have prevented disaster , or what would have happened if the world had adopted any of the recent proposals for the use of force . |
| 6 | She knew not what to expect , or what would happen next . |
| 7 | who or what would please him ? |
| 8 | It was tiring work , leaving no time to think of what they had left behind , or what might lie ahead of them . |
| 9 | One of two things happen he 'll ei he 'll either say yeah , okay and give you the number or what might happen ? |
| 10 | It would clearly be very difficult to compare one disaster to another , in fact I 'm not even sure you could do it from a grammatical point of view , but if you were to point your finger somewhere in the world and say , ‘ We really ought to look at what 's happening here , or what might happen there , ’ could you think of one outstanding example ? |
| 11 | Add a blind or shade to drop from the ceiling level as well and you will suddenly have long graceful windows , or what will pass for them very well . |
| 12 | Although the question posed by a CF adult : ‘ Are you sure beyond reasonable doubt that we should live our lives wondering who or what will contaminate us with P , cepacia ’ has not been fully answered , our investigations support the conclusion of a recent editorial that the ‘ risks can not be ignored ’ . |
| 13 | If no such committee is formed , who or what will make those recommendations ? |
| 14 | He claims to have absolutely no inkling of what will happen on his next page , or what will happen at the end of a novel . |
| 15 | Or what should have been a chord . |
| 16 | In Gledhow Autoparts Ltd v Delaney [ 1965 ] 1 WLR 1366 Diplock LJ said " It is natural … to tend to look at what in fact happened under the agreement ; but the question of the validity of a covenant in restraint of trade has to be determined at the date at which the agreement was entered into and has to be determined in the light of what may happen under the agreement , although what may happen may be and always is different in some respects from what did happen . |
| 17 | In the face of possible threats to the full 300kHz band from broadcast expansion , European amateurs had hoped that what might emerge was a worldwide common 200kHz band , although the International Amateur Radio Union felt the amateur service should not relinquish any of its full 300kHz where currently allocated . |
| 18 | On the other hand , providing a false diagnosis adds to patients ' disability , reinforces maladaptive behaviour , and ensures that what might have been a brief illness becomes refractory to treatment . |
| 19 | Indeed Washington was afraid on other counts that what might look attractive in theory might prove counter-productive in practice . |
| 20 | The Hong Kong government guesses that what would follow is a fall of 5–7% in the colony 's total trade , and of a third in its rate of GDP growth . |
| 21 | Reasons of space alone demand that what may appear to be a contentious response to this question be suggested , rather than developed . |
| 22 | However important this is , it ought to be born in mind that what may appear to be the cheapest at the time may not necessarily be the most effective in solving a particular odour problem and consequently not the cheapest in the long term . |
| 23 | Is collusion indeed ever really ‘ tacit ’ , or is it the case that what may appear to be tacit collusion is actually explicit collusion in which the process of agreement is simply concealed ? |
| 24 | However , given that people 's personal valuation of environmental qualities ( such as the open countryside ) has tended to increase in proportion to the degree to which they are degraded through development , it is reasonable to assume that what may appear to be a net benefit to the present generation in a trade-off between the environment and a proposed development , is quite likely to be considered a net loss in retrospect by a future generation for whom the natural environment has become a more precious commodity . |
| 25 | However , given that people 's personal valuation of environmental qualities ( such as the open countryside ) has tended to increase in proportion to the degree to which they are degraded through development , it is reasonable to assume that what may appear to be a net benefit to the present generation in a trade-off between the environment and a proposed development , is quite likely to be considered a net loss in retrospect by a future generation for whom the natural environment has become a more precious commodity . |
| 26 | The strange factor is that what may evoke this process could be a rather wonderful event , perhaps linked to a relationship or career matter . |
| 27 | All these factors reduce the response rate , no matter how good the original sample may have been , so that what may have been a reasonable one-in-five sample to begin with ends up as nearer one-in-ten actually obtained , because of losses . |
| 28 | In general we are our own worst enemies when it comes to enlarging and reinforcing our fears , so that what may have begun as a minor apprehension can escalate into a problem of mammoth proportions . |
| 29 | FEBRUARY , May and August could be seen as rehearsals for November 's main event so that what may have been a series of happenings in these months could lead to November 's denouement . |
| 30 | Singer ( 1958 ) , in a critique of the Boskop Skull which was discovered in 1913 on a Transvaal farm , points out that what may have been justifiable speculation at the beginning of the century is inexcusable now . |