Example sentences of "[Wh adv] it [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 31 | And he had pigs ' eyes , was all that she could think as he said , ‘ Let me call you back , ’ into the phone and then cradled it before standing and , still holding her arm and not much caring about how it would hurt , moving to close the office door . |
| 32 | You see art that 's created by people who are killing themselves making it , and I always wonder how it would turn out if they were n't doing that . |
| 33 | I did n't anticipate how it would turn . |
| 34 | Warm things are said in the flush of the campaign but now that it 's over the first question the Tories should ask is how it would look to the country if a victorious party launched into a frontal assault on the BBC in the wake of its victory . |
| 35 | For instance , a group of adolescents intending to look at how a family might drive one of its members to suicide , began their drama by working out the family 's relative positions round the graveside , concerning themselves with ‘ how it would look if it were a still photograph ’ . |
| 36 | Unfortunately , very few people will appreciate just how much time , effort and sheer innovative thinking has gone into making the engine look similar to how it would look had we merely pressure washed the outside and mounted it for display . |
| 37 | This is how it would look diagrammatically . |
| 38 | She scowled at the broad back , with the T-shirt stretched taut over his muscles , and wondered how it would look with a sandwich hurled at it . |
| 39 | All outlined how fab System 10 was , and how it would help them , with PeopleSoft rooting for database cursors and the new Open Client because it wants to offer customers better performance , distributed data management , system administration tools and very large database support , and Bachman promising to support System 10 — well , because it just liked Sybase so much . |
| 40 | All outlined how fab System 10 was , and how it would help them , with PeopleSoft rooting for database cursors and the new Open Client because it wants to offer customers better performance , distributed data management , system administration tools and very large database support , and Bachman promising to support System 10 — well , because it just liked Sybase so much . |
| 41 | As they built in each new feature , they discussed how it would help to defend the castle from attackers . |
| 42 | Edward knew how it would begin . |
| 43 | I do n't know how it would appeal to you but we thought it was funny . |
| 44 | Inspector Brian Jaggs told yesterday during a guided tour of the building how it would include the latest in technology with security a major factor . |
| 45 | Approached it as lovers approach each other after a quarrel , waiting to see how it would respond . |
| 46 | Under the theory that light is made up of waves , it was not clear how it would respond to gravity . |
| 47 | Thus a ladder filter comprising several sections and terminated in resistance tends to correct termination of sections rapidly along the ladder and responds overall quite closely to how it would respond if it were possible to correctly terminate the end section . |
| 48 | I have read Labour 's document , which is entitled ’ Fair Rates ’ , in which the Labour party did not tackle the question of how it would deal with houses in multiple occupation or refer to salary levels . |
| 49 | I simply have no idea of how it would proceed in practice . |
| 50 | It is not yet clear exactly how it would expand in this area , but the steps it has already taken are illuminating . |
| 51 | Would he have gone on to hail Middlesbrough as ‘ that marvellous town of iron ’ if he had foreseen how it would crush so much of the beauty he cherished ? |
| 52 | So we left and the boss told me that how he would work it out and how it would take probably something in the order of two thirds of that particular van that w we were going to use , if it was packed about six foot high . |
| 53 | I have n't the remotest idea cos I do n't know how it would come out . |
| 54 | It amounted to a coded acknowledgement of the barely-supressed rage of Conservative MPs , mostly on the right , whose concern over a fresh wave of ‘ large-scale immigration ’ hitting overcrowded facilities in Britain was clothed yesterday in language close to that of Mr Gerald Kaufman , the shadow Foreign Secretary , who called the plan ‘ inherently unworkable , invidious and divisive ’ , and demanded details on how it would work . |
| 55 | ‘ This is how it would work . |
| 56 | It is best not to build it at all but to imagine how it would work . |
| 57 | AN EXAMPLE OF HOW IT WOULD WORK |
| 58 | He asked about its effectiveness , whether it would have a palliative effect , and how it would work . |
| 59 | Publicising the campaign in Glasgow , Mr Salmond said the campaign was intended ‘ to give people confidence in independence , to show how it would work for them and for Scotland , and to highlight the increasing level of discontent in the Union . ’ |
| 60 | We included in that discussion at the executive what N C V O's own position was and how it would seek to improve own practice . |