Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] what it [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They could turn out that for what it 'd cost us to tile them ! |
| 2 | Memories were fresh of what it may be fair to call ‘ America 's failure in China ’ . |
| 3 | Now she was perplexed and afraid ; perplexed because she did not understand what had happened , and afraid of what it might mean if she did . |
| 4 | It was n't any different from what it would be back home . |
| 5 | It is just different from what it would be had Gloriana been intended as a Grand Opera in the A ida sense . |
| 6 | Except that their role is more obscure to the public eye , the authorities ' influence over short-term interest rates is not very different from what it used to be when they announced an MLR each week and expected institutions to comply . |
| 7 | While you 're still a lifer you 're generally more interested in what it would be like to see a ghost . |
| 8 | What the Russians want is technical help and equipment , now our own industry is in decline er yes , particularly in machine tool industry , and I think the first thing we should do is to go over there and see what it is they actually needed , what they actually need right now , er one of your previous er correspondence , er speaker turned round and said well they 've got half finished buildings and things like that , I mean er , people have got to be put to work because people in co-ordinate employment is the only source of real wealth , but the market economy is n't interested in promoting real wealth , I mean it 's only interested in what it can get out of an economy not what it gives . |
| 9 | Its activities have grown with every year , but public financing has not , so it is more and more dependent on what it can extract through planning regulations from the developers and industrialists themselves . |
| 10 | This should be as much for what it can not and does not achieve , as for what it does . |
| 11 | Eagerly , Wilson waited for an answer , quite convinced of what it would be . |
| 12 | It seems indisputable that in a minority of cases , the causes of the disturbing behaviour are located wholly outside the responsibilities of the school and that the school is impotent in what it can offer . |
| 13 | But the membership was still far short of what it should have been . |
| 14 | So the amount available to her to spend will fall short of what it should be by the amount of that tax . |
| 15 | We are excited about this part of our course , but a bit unsure of what it will be like to work in a foreign country . |
| 16 | The direct tax take is now more than £30 billion below what it would have been if the old system had remained in place and indexed . |
| 17 | There 's no crackles and it 's expanding well and it peaks three eight two which is okay but it 's quite down on what it should be . |
| 18 | This outlay represents around a fifth of what it would cost to dispose of the waste locally . |
| 19 | If the ERM continues to impose on this country an unemployment rate 750,000 above what it would otherwise be — and that is the average for Europe — we have only a short time before the racist and neo-fascist plague descends on us also — which is why launching the Anti-Racist Alliance was so urgent . |
| 20 | Mexico had agreed in February 1990 a debt reduction deal on some $90,000 million of commercial debts , with a probable saving of around $5,000 million on what it would otherwise have had to pay [ see p. 37243 ] . |
| 21 | I 'm realistically assessing it and I 'm aware of what it could mean to the company . |
| 22 | ‘ Scared of what it might lead to ? ’ he asked with gentle mockery . |
| 23 | You know I think that 's the one drawback of having a small workforce , the fact that if one sh picket did n't turn up , you know all of us on your th the force on the gate if you like was er a third of what it could 've been . |
| 24 | At the end of the fifth month the length has grown to around 250 millimetres about half the length of a full-term baby but the weight is still only about a tenth of what it will be at birth . |
| 25 | Part of the ACOST review is devoted to what it should itself be looking at . |