Example sentences of "[subord] [prep] [Wh det] i [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My peers are more tolerant , more willing to accept me for what I am rather than for what I might produce or become in the hierarchy . |
| 2 | I palpated the abdomen with a grim certainty as to what I would find and there was no surprise , only a dull sadness as my fingers closed around a hard lobulated mass deep among the viscera . |
| 3 | Have you any suggestions as to what I might try to overcome the problem ? |
| 4 | Erm , I never had any idea as to what I might do when I left school , in fact erm , apart from basket making and er one or two manual skills of that sort erm , there was n't much available . |
| 5 | Any suggestion as to what I can be doing wrong — if anything ? |
| 6 | The meeting had been arranged with intense , frantic planning as to detail , with letters despatched by lawyers through couriers , paragraphs changed bo mutual request , assurances as to what I could say or not and , indeed , whether I could admit that I had even appeared on this day at the august offices of Olympia & York . |
| 7 | This was certainly not necessary for the decision of the case ; but though the resolution of the Court of Common Pleas was only a dictum , it seems to me clear that Lord Coke deliberately adopted the dictum , and the great weight of his authority makes it necessary to be cautious before saying that what he deliberately adopted as law was a mistake , and though I can not find that in any subsequent case this dictum has been made the ground of the decision , except in Fitch v. Sutton ( 1804 ) 5 East 230 , as to which I shall make some remarks later , and in Down v. Hatcher ( 1839 ) 10 Ad. & El . |
| 8 | However , given the choice , if that is a choice , there is no question as to which I would rather be . |