Example sentences of "[subord] [Wh det] [pers pn] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One formed the impression that its editor gave his readers what he thought they ought to read rather than what they might want or enjoy . |
| 2 | But the next exam on the educational ladder lays emphasis on what people know , rather than what they can do , and is seen primarily as a passport to university entry . |
| 3 | That is to say , it tended to focus on what children can not do rather than what they can do , and in ( rightly ) attending to their problems it underplayed or ignored their potential . |
| 4 | ‘ There are stars I have simply not brought to Highbury because they have been more concerned with the money they could make rather than what they could achieve for Arsenal . ’ |
| 5 | A mind like hers had never been trained to encompass a vast concept or to accommodate any larger vision than what she could see with half-closed eyes . |
| 6 | ‘ … and the moral of that [ said the Duchess ] is — ‘ Be what you would seem to be ’ — or , if you 'd like it put more simply — ‘ Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise . |
| 7 | She came , just gon na tell you that she 's gon na put erm more brandy in than what it should have in . |
| 8 | Well I can choose what I do n't want to do more than what I can do , that 's easier to you know . |
| 9 | If you wait the full five years , the pension will be one-third higher than what you would have received at age 60 . |
| 10 | And even today hut sections can still be bought and despite the fact that they 're forty years old the quality of the wood in them is often better than what you can buy today . |
| 11 | Er like i we if I saw a vase that was a little bit bigger and a bit more expensive than what you 'd have |
| 12 | I 've had some basics we got some nice , cos what we 'll do if we have a set is stick it on the bench , we 've got this foam cleaner , we spray it with the foam cleaner and clean it and when th |
| 13 | cos what we 'll do we 'll go out for a meal in the evening |
| 14 | Erm , cos what you would do is you would er , reset that whole range , that whole range , that whole range , that one and that one , that one , that one , that one . |
| 15 | But already we can see one most unexpected and surprising consequence of this : if what we may call the phallic or Oedipal trauma came first in human cultural history and was the original event from which all else flowed , then in terms of individual psychosexual development it follows last , preceded by the oral stage whose cultural equivalent succeeded it ! |
| 16 | If what I will call the hypothetical cost test is adopted it will come very close to a market value test . |
| 17 | Somehow , she had a need to know all she could about him — and in there lay the conflict — because whatever she would have asked , or learned , was not for any write-up which she might hand over to her sister for her use , but was private and personal , and for her alone . |
| 18 | Because what we 'll have to do is negotiate at the end of the next session , whenever we 've finished , cos that 's entirely dependent on when we get fed up varies on what |
| 19 | ( One occasionally encounters a burst of inanity of Nobel proportions , as in this : " Our capacity for deceiving ourselves about the operation of the brain is almost limitless , mainly because what we can report is only a minute fraction of what goes on in our head . |
| 20 | Yeah well I du n no maybe I was gon na say is because what we 'd like you to do in your feedback is actually give you a feedback using the style that you were holding back on . |
| 21 | And this next stage really offers some potentially huge benefits because what it can allow is the integration of the corporate information systems and the requirements of the corporation as a whole to manage and exploit its information resource . |
| 22 | I think the process that I 've just explained would allow that anyway , because what I would do , if I just go back over it again , supposing for argument 's sake by the end of February we 've agreed which one we think it 's going to be , we then I then go to the home . |
| 23 | Because what I 'd like to do is give people a view as to how they can best formulate their letters to you to get the right kind of reply from you . |
| 24 | Well that 's it , it ca n't be right , it ca n't be right , because what you would expect in there , is another sort of perspex piece that comes at an angle like that . |
| 25 | well no , because what you can do know is you can go to somebody who will sit down with a mini computer and that 's what you need , a mini computer and will sit down and will look at a job and will say right , if you take this job , it can also claim Family Credit of so much , and , and they actually do a , a sort of alternative benefit calculation , and what they do is they look at , if you take this job and take all the other things into account , will you be better off ? |
| 26 | He 's looking away so that you ca n't catch his eye ; he 's also looking away because what he can see over your shoulder is more interesting than your shoulder . |
| 27 | Go easy on the women , Henry had said ; whereas what he should have said was , ‘ Tell the women to keep off you . ’ |
| 28 | The desire for improved services was centred among Congregationalists and Baptists while what we might call a larger search for dignity pertained to all the major denominations ; the Congregationalist , Dr George Barrett , told a 1900 meeting of the Free Church Council that ‘ Nonconformists have not yet enlisted the imagination as a handmaid to faith … |
| 29 | One can see from this that random sampling is not at all the same as what we might call ‘ personal choice ’ . |
| 30 | Is what he feels the same as what we would feel were we holding him ? |