Example sentences of "[prep] what [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then the young woman laughed merrily , her voice strengthening after what must have been years of silence , and the whole strange cellar rang with that laughter , and the glass fragments tinkled like broken bells . |
| 2 | I suspect you were disguised as a personable young man , a merry companion for the Gascons , after what must have been a long and gruelling journey . |
| 3 | Fourteen of these patients are well , a mean of 9.4 years ( range 3–12 ) after what should have been their programme entry date . |
| 4 | Ultimately , he dashed out of bed and caught a cab to the theatre — where he arrived thirty minutes after what should have been curtain time , to see his erstwhile audience walking away , dejected looks on most of the faces . |
| 5 | The two meanings are ( i ) ‘ the astronaut entered the atmosphere for ( at least ) the second time ’ and ( ii ) ‘ the astronaut returned to the atmosphere ( after what could have been his/her first trip into space ) ’ . |
| 6 | The rotation system would enable a positive , free and unhindered development of the role so that others may share in and contribute towards what would become a valuable resource for the use and benefit of all concerned . |
| 7 | It is worth spending a moment considering what might seem a very technical matter , but it is one with important practical implications . |
| 8 | The benefit currently paid is below what would have been the level of state sickness benefit . |
| 9 | The perfectionist is an anxious person , always afraid of what may go wrong . |
| 10 | As for the first , it should be remembered that for an Epicurean the worst pain is the groundless fear of what may happen after death , and that excessive unnatural desires are painful too . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm scared of what may happen when the children go back . |
| 12 | But , even then , it may fail and it should again be emphasised that family members benefit from their own sake from involvement in the Family Fellowships regardless of what may happen to the primary sufferer . |
| 13 | It is very worrying in terms of what may happen in the northern hemisphere " . |
| 14 | According to the director of the survey , Dr John Innes : " The results provide an indication of what may happen if summers in Britain become warmer because of the greenhouse effect . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Many people grow up frightened of what may come after this life because their minds have been filled since childhood with ideas of hell and damnation , judgment and punishment . |
| 17 | Herbs are cast into the fire by the Lady of the Flowers in lieu of what may have been gory sacrifices by our sun-worshipping ancestors . |
| 18 | Although , as we shall see , many varied and lengthy accounts of what may have been the distinguishing characteristics of the fabliaux have been produced , the short definition given by Bédier in 1893 still attracts support : the fabliaux , he declared , are " " contes à rire en vers " " . |
| 19 | I am frankly fearful of what may lie ahead for some of them . ’ |
| 20 | It was these implications of the greater clarity introduced by the Geneva Protocols on the prohibition of indiscriminate weapons that led the British government , in addition to its general reservation excluding their applicability to nuclear weapons , to formulate further specific reservations in respect of what may constitute a military objective . |
| 21 | Finally , we realise that we are only at the beginning of what may prove to be one of the most significant developments of the twentieth century . |
| 22 | These are signs of what may turn out to be a dramatic , if almost unnoticed , revolution in the higher education curriculum . |
| 23 | Armchair theorising may be a useful preliminary , a source of what may turn out to be interesting ideas , but for science to begin it must be secured to empirical results and its theories determined by them . |
| 24 | Rostov decided that it was easier to go in search of what would pass in the Simonova for a command bridge than it was to remain in his quarters , while Vorontseff attempted to eradicate within the space of an hour the accumulated disarray of several years of civilian occupation . |
| 25 | His pursuit of the same approach in his cantatas arose perhaps from a firm conviction of what would succeed in a genre so closely allied to opera , perhaps from innate conservatism . |
| 26 | As editor of the Criterion , Eliot at this period often used anthropological material , himself selecting books for review and reading every word of what would appear in print . |
| 27 | Whatever may be the limits of Article 235 , and it has been noted that it gave rise , even before the Community acquired its express environmental competence , to legislation on the conservation of wild birds , examples can be found of the development of what would appear to be new Community policies , without even a reference to Article 235 . |
| 28 | They were beginning to lay down a sound that would later become synonymous with The Wedding Present , but it missed the energy of what would come later . |
| 29 | An obvious and good choice of audience is their classmates because the student " reporters " will have a good idea of what would interest them . |
| 30 | For all his socialist language he was really an old style Tory Radical , despising the ‘ system ’ yet not possessing a clear vision of what would replace it . |