Example sentences of "[prep] what [pron] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 it 's more obvious to the audience how , like , Tony 's just after what he can get sort of thing .
2 Advice on Savings — how best to look after what you can afford to save .
3 I expected it to be either genetics or haematology , after what you must have seen this morning . ’
4 How could I do that after what I 'd read in Billy 's bedroom ?
5 It had been a convenient fiction to smooth the path towards what he must have seen as their inevitable destiny in that great , soft bed .
6 It is also considering what it can do to meet the demand for more information by such measures as explanatory videos , evening classes or workplace clinics .
7 Interruptions in her employment experience , reductions in her mobility and labour market bargaining power are all ways in which family responsibilities reduce women 's pay below what it might have been .
8 This obviously reduces the income below what it would have been had he been able to hold the assets directly .
9 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 .
10 And as you 'd expect from Enterprise , all these prices are well below what you would pay in resort anyway .
11 To gain that knowledge means we must not be afraid of what we may uncover within our nature in this process of self-analysis .
12 Thus we have the impression of what we may call a ‘ sacred history ’ , threaded through history : the history of the liberation of people .
13 I 'd be much more impressed by some positive suggestions of what we might do cos I th you know , months ago I was browbeaten outside church over a lot of similar issues and I said then , you know
14 It must also be remembered that the working life of what we might regard as identical batteries tends to vary .
15 But those wo n't , er if we were to take cashing those in now , it would be probably taking half of what we might get for them in the future , and from a business proposition , there is a time , when even if you have money in the bank , there are times , when it would be very advantageous to take long term interest rates , at low interest rates , and I think er er this is er perhaps the best opportunity that we have .
16 Finally , it is worth pointing out that , if my account of neoteny in man is correct , even the relatively ego-less citizen of the totalitarian state is the possessor of what we might term the neurophysiological substrate of the ego and the superego , which almost certainly comprises some of the most recently acquired elements of the human brain .
17 But many interviews carried out in social research are of samples of what we might call ‘ ordinary ’ people — people who have characteristics , opinions and knowledge of a much more general nature .
18 Originally 254cm ( 100in ) and since made at 3/4 size 198cm ( 78in ) , the Spinoff also contributed to the arrival of what we might call third generation stunters by its eventual introduction of stand-off struts .
19 Instead of what we might call a vertical analysis of society — one which builds upon a single kind of term — Althusser attributes a horizontal analysis to Marx .
20 Since many associates who were not blood relations often assumed the surname but between them could muster only a limited number of Christian names , confusion was avoided by the bestowal of what we might call a nickname , or what has been more justly described as a ‘ toname ’ .
21 He , too , is constrained in his interpretation by past similar experience , by interpreting in the light of what we might call the principle of analogy .
22 Whereas in many cases this is only one dimension , albeit an important one , in the case of what we might call theoretical ideology it constitutes the main organizing principle .
23 Ironically enough , Rameau was among the most resourceful and imaginative composers of his time in his treatment of the orchestra , and the least in need of what we might call d'Indification .
24 I have so looked forward to it , making all the things with Matey , and thinking of what we shall do with the money we make — which is stupid really , when I know that I could so easily give them so much more — But that would be nothing , for what I have done with Matey has been done by me , and not by Papa , for that is what giving them his money would mean .
25 The simplest form of remedy for the uncertainty of the regime of primary rules is the introduction of what we shall call a ‘ rule of recognition ’ .
26 The remedy for the static quality of the regime of primary rules consists in the introduction of what we shall call ‘ rules of change ’ .
27 We may thus envisage a gradient of what we shall term establishment of senses .
28 We were able to get on with our routine work without too much drama unfolding around us , and we started to dream of what we would do when the war was over .
29 We can but suppose that he practised the middle-class virtues of Samuel Smiles — those of hard work , thrift and sobriety — and embodied the very quintessence of what we would speak of today as the Protestant Work Ethic .
30 It showed that our formal control and planning mechanisms fell far short of what we would like .
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