Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [Wh det] they [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm and you know and I the thing that erm used to worry me maybe sometimes , was the acceptance of this as what they should be having . |
| 2 | All these actions led to the reduction of oil prices until they dropped to half of what they used to be … |
| 3 | The tour is designed to give pupils an opportunity to experience a variety of activities , some of which they may wish to develop in the future . |
| 4 | They rooted out those folk who were not … ordinary , and banished them from Minginish. people are afraid of what they can not understand . ’ |
| 5 | But even if we accept that there is a significant difference between the ‘ legal ’ and ‘ political ’ processes in the way in which decisions are reached , they would both still come firmly within the definition of power we adopted in part I , that is the ability to get others to do what you want them to , assuming this is different from what they would have done anyway , with the use or threat of sanctions if necessary . |
| 6 | However , the majority of teachers who were interviewed claimed that they had not done anything different from what they would have done were they not being observed , but that they had probably prepared lessons more carefully and thought things through more . |
| 7 | This may have had an effect on the conversation : first , in respect of the content , which may have been different from what they would otherwise have talked about , and secondly in that the girls may have tried consciously to use " Jamaican " . |
| 8 | It is easy to forget that the majority of the people living on earth still lived and died where they had been born , or , more precisely , that their movements were no greater or no different from what they would have been before the Industrial Revolution . |
| 9 | In particular , in the interpretation of provisions of the SGA 1979 relating to implied terms , Lord Diplock said ( at p501 ) that the Act " ought not to be construed so narrowly as to force on parties to contracts for the sale of goods promises and consequences different from what they must reasonably have intended " . |
| 10 | ‘ The problem with all these stars , ’ said Peter Fairley , ‘ was that the moment they started to know that we were interested in what they could do , and we started to investigate how they did things , it just went . |
| 11 | They are only interested in what they can make out of it . ’ |
| 12 | With such facts in mind , the preference utilitarian may suggest that our aim should be not just that people should somehow have as much subjective experience as possible of the kinds they most prefer , but that as much as possible of what they would like to have happen should happen . |
| 13 | Because of what has gone before , young people coming into residential care need security and a sense of belonging , neither of which they may have experienced in great measure before . |
| 14 | Out of approximately one hundred prospective overseas students I spoke with , the majority said they had little intention of returning to China unless conditions improved in all aspects of life in the near future , but they were vague about what they would do overseas once their initial period of advanced education was complete . |
| 15 | The Tories have much for which they should seek forgiveness . |
| 16 | Yet , the medicalization of health within our society has left people generally unaware of what they can do to maintain their own health . |
| 17 | But the biblical material may simply not be amenable to what they would say . |
| 18 | They were welcome for what they could help China to achieve in practical terms , but their politics and social attitudes were reviled . |
| 19 | You can buy a number of products which will allow your fish to feed while you are away , including automatic feeders and holiday blocks , but for a normal two week vacation your adult fish will do just fine on what they can find in the tank . |
| 20 | We tried to make suggestions for character developments , all of which they would n't allow . |
| 21 | So you 've got to create something quite simple and effective in which they can be successful , which is n't so demanding as you would for the other group . |
| 22 | Can can I just say that I think it 's interesting that Mao 's sort of targeting the local tyrants and the erm the evil gentry I mean because you could , you could ar argue that basically the landlords are only trying to get a return erm which is , which is equal to what they can get if they invest all their money in or you know erm or whatever or big cities |
| 23 | This was particularly important when few persons were able to read and had to depend on what they were told and above all on what they could see . |
| 24 | The report urges consumers to start demanding value for money , but music lovers are sceptical about what they can achieve . |
| 25 | Is he aware that that has not been the case in large parts of the national health service , where food , cleaning and laundry services have been put out to competitive tender , and where , as a result , standards have often fallen far short of what they ought to be ? |
| 26 | This approach does not place the emphasis upon the problems with which solicitors do deal , but upon those with which they could deal . |
| 27 | None the less , it seems likely that the course of studies was so arranged that the students would pass through the same grades of medreses as those in which they would later teach : such would in any case seem to have been the practice in later times . |
| 28 | The leaders of the non-Tory parties would have to discuss the principles on which they could agree and those on which they could not . |
| 29 | He was saying that the gods had so far been unkind , that they might turn kind , but that what the gods did for him was secondary to what they might do for Niki , a remark that turned out to be prophetic . |
| 30 | ‘ They are really choosy about what they will and will not buy — or rather , have their parents buy for them ! ’ he added . |