Example sentences of "[prep] what [vb mod] [vb infin] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rotation system would enable a positive , free and unhindered development of the role so that others may share in and contribute towards what would become a valuable resource for the use and benefit of all concerned . |
| 2 | It is worth spending a moment considering what might seem a very technical matter , but it is one with important practical implications . |
| 3 | It was these implications of the greater clarity introduced by the Geneva Protocols on the prohibition of indiscriminate weapons that led the British government , in addition to its general reservation excluding their applicability to nuclear weapons , to formulate further specific reservations in respect of what may constitute a military objective . |
| 4 | Different people kept chipping in with their ideas of what would fire the national imagination sufficiently to get the people to the polling booths . |
| 5 | Only the historic fact that he gave the Irish capital the first public performance of what would become the most popular of all oratorios . |
| 6 | The problem then becomes that when the puritan literature of the early seventeenth century is examined , the seeds of what might prove a flowering of science are difficult to find . |
| 7 | He puts great emphasis on the difficulties of prediction , and urges that where there are rules to which people do in fact adhere for the most part , and which help maintain the social stability required for any kind of good to flourish , we are likely to come nearest to doing what is objectively right ( in terms of its actual consequences ) if we also stick to the rules , but that where the rules , however useful they would be if generally obeyed , are widely flouted we should make a direct judgement of what will have the best consequences . |
| 8 | He can not equate it with ‘ ought ’ since , according to him , to speak of what one ought to do is simply to speak of what will have the best consequences . |
| 9 | However , when they begin to suggest what these factors might be , it emerges that they have markedly different conceptions of what will provide an adequate explanation . |
| 10 | Concern for people requires an understanding of what will motivate individuals to work harder and more effectively , and also an understanding of what can make a work group as a whole improve its motivation and norms of working . |
| 11 | Shortly after he spoke , the first of what could become a flood of disgruntled clergy announced he was leaving the Church of England . |
| 12 | Here 's the first of what could become a regular feature in LINK if you send in your suggestions . |
| 13 | Fittingly the local-born lad took the first spot kick which completed the first leg of what could see the city 's two clubs meet for the first time in the last four . |
| 14 | Kuwaiti radio said that the Amir 's move had been designed " to ensure life in Kuwait against remnants of aggression " and to protect " people , honour and property against what might re-imperil the country " . |
| 15 | The prolonged crying of a well-fed and recently changed baby can not be ignored , however hard the parents may try to develop an impervious barrier against what might seem an unremitting demand . |
| 16 | Working with what might appear an impossible topic , Kathleen Meyer shows what a master can achieve . |
| 17 | She is entrusted , on one occasion , with what might seem a rudimentary version of one of his own opinions . |
| 18 | I 'm sorry to bother you with what must seem a difficulty of my own making , and enclose a S.A.E. for your reply . |
| 19 | Differences are played down and the self surrendered in what can become a metaphysical experience of the kind described by John Donne : |
| 20 | MIDDLESBROUGH Football Club 's success in achieving promotion to the new Premier League ensures the North 's representation in what will become the game 's senior competition next season . |
| 21 | In July 1836 , Whitman and his new wife Narcissa , accompanied by the stern , short-tempered Reverend Henry Spalding and his ailing spouse , Eliza , hauled a wagon over what would become the Oregon Trail , to Fort Vancouver . |
| 22 | There was , however , no agreement over what should replace the mental hospital . |
| 23 | In the meantime the only guidance as to what would constitute an acceptable limit on Article 8(1) rights is the rather equivocal decision in the Klass case which concerned the operation of surveillance procedures in the German Federal Republic where legislation authorized telephone-tapping and other surveillance techniques if a number of conditions were satisfied . |
| 24 | This registry is in the process of being transferred , at a cost of £1.6 billion , on to what will become the country 's single largest computer system with terminals at every DSS office throughout Britain . |
| 25 | Where there are no established rules to guide decision we must make a direct judgement as to what will have the best consequences , concentrating on the more immediate and those we are personally most motivated to promote , as the remote future is highly unpredictable and we are unlikely to do much to promote what is not personally inviting . |
| 26 | Further memories were revived by a visit from his mother in the summer of 1921 which brought ‘ another anxiety as well as a joy ’ when Eliot was working on what would become The Waste Land . |
| 27 | By the time when he began to work most intensively on what would become The Waste Land , Eliot was neither god nor martyr . |
| 28 | Certainly , I have known some undergraduates who would rise brilliantly to such a challenge ; but they are an exception , and one can not base a course on what would suit the exceptional student , much as one would like to . |
| 29 | The village green is really a giant theatre set.It takes hours of work by the scenic artists to turn a series of frames covered in plastic sheeting into convincing buildings.Here they 're working on what will become the church . |
| 30 | In these circumstances the court is likely to require professional evidence on what will constitute a reasonable standard of parental care . |