Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] what [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | post traumatic stress , I have my own views about what will happen there |
| 2 | I told her no messages had been sent and suggested that if Uncle was a businessman — I thought it better not to mention that we already knew he was a multi-millionaire businessman — he might naturally tend to be secretive and that he might also be reluctant to broadcast the fact that he had lost his yacht through what might have been his own fault . |
| 3 | The Dutch , for example , had what at least from their own point of view were admirable and generous plans for what might have turned out to be an independent Indonesia ; but , like the French , had failed to persuade their Republican adversaries that their ultimate freedom was assured in European hands . |
| 4 | I have already had queries about what will happen . |
| 5 | There was then the decision about what should happen to the foods division . |
| 6 | In 1946 a Committee at Stoke began planning a curriculum for what would become the University of Keele . |
| 7 | The new tenants have no rules about what should happen in the pub . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He refused to believe that physical laws should not make a definite , unambiguous prediction for what would happen . |
| 10 | Many of us share some deeply felt worries about what will happen under the current procedures until the changeover takes place in 1993 . |
| 11 | She took to drinking more than she should , and most nights she would cry herself to sleep , thinking of what might have been . |
| 12 | ‘ Sometimes , ’ he went on in a low voice , ‘ I lie awake at night thinking of what would happen to this place if you should die without issue . ’ |
| 13 | He shifted restlessly on the bed , thinking of what would happen if he should die without issue . |
| 14 | Overnight the full force of what might have happened had finally come home to Elise , and she 'd spent most of the day clucking round her young sister like a hen with one chick . |
| 15 | Charles Kingsley , writing of the final destruction of the Fens , was perhaps the first to regret the loss of what must have been one of the finest natural systems in Europe . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've read the programme of what will happen , and it sounds good . |
| 17 | It was a demonstration of what would happen if Franco were not there to impose order . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He stared up at the starlit sky and shivered , not only from the biting cold but his own sombre fear of what might await him . |
| 20 | Living solely by their hopes for what , in effect , will enhance their ‘ vital motion ’ , and fear of what will impede it , they exist in a state of perpetual fear , suspicion , and competition . |
| 21 | It 's from fear of what will happen , because you 're doing something you 're comfortable with you 're proud of erm a and at the same time you do n't know how erm these authorities are going to react . |
| 22 | Father would leave , but he stays on and stays on out of fear of what will happen to you . |
| 23 | What may well be the most off-putting thought for some about this amplifier is , having glanced at the front panel , a fear of what could lurk around the back : does it resemble the buss panel of a 32-channel mixing desk , or the flight deck of a 757 ? |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | They are given as an indication of what can happen and a suggestion of some of the ways in which similar ideas might be explored by different children in different circumstances . |
| 26 | Her mind kept flicking back to the python smile of the assassin , conjuring images of what might have been : death , blood , pain . |
| 27 | Just before I snapped out of it , aborted the failed trance , I thought I saw — although I could n't be certain — the ragged hole in the beard through which Gyggle addressed the world unravel a little at its edge , exposing a slug side of what might have been Gyggle 's lip . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | In this exciting , optimistic approach it is important to have the ability to create pictures of what could happen in the future — ideal solutions and potential achievement . |
| 30 | 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 . |