Example sentences of "[to-vb] [Wh det] it [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In order to make appeal to this methodology , which is very commonly used in linguistic and philosophical discussion , we need to know what it would mean for the context to be ‘ slightly different ’ . |
| 2 | Please use the Careers Advisory Service and get to know what it can do for you . |
| 3 | We all know what the Labour party will do to the higher rate , but even it does not seem to know what it will do to the tax on middle managers — national insurance contributions . |
| 4 | A fortnight ago , she had been too taken aback by the idea to absorb what it could imply , but before anything was fixed there were matters which she and Vitor must discuss , parameters to be defined , agreements which needed to be cut and dried . |
| 5 | I just tried to imagine what it would have felt like , but could n't draw on any past experiences . ’ |
| 6 | To imagine what it would have been like a hundred years ago , when men were swinging over the cliffs on ropes made of horsehair , and climbing the soaring pinnacles of Stac Lee and Stac an Armin to harvest the gugas , the young gannets which would ensure they survived the next winter . |
| 7 | There was no easy way to answer the bitterness in her voice , and Julia remembered what David had said about his mother 's probable feelings during the war and tried to imagine what it must have been like for Mrs Wallington , stuck in Scotland , knowing only a little but guessing all too much of what was happening to her own country — and to her two sons . |
| 8 | And trying to recreate what it would have looked like . |
| 9 | Each team 's goal is to determine what it would have to do to be first class and then to handle things its own way . |
| 10 | Yet it is only through particular instances of truth that we can come to understand what it might mean to speak of absolute Truth . |
| 11 | I tried , for the first time in my life , to understand what it must have been like then , under tsarist rule , where people , peasants , were no more than livestock , to be dealt with by the aristocracy as they saw fit . |
| 12 | Syria was asked to consider what it would give in return for Israeli withdrawal from the Golan Heights . |
| 13 | When faced with two conflicting decisions of its own , the Court of Appeal is entitled and bound to decide which it will follow . |
| 14 | The institute clearly does not wish to interfere with the er , council 's rights er , to decide what it should call er people . |
| 15 | At least one bookseller remarked to me that so many ex-library books had come on to the market in the last few years that he had begun to realise what it must have been like when the great monastic libraries were being dispersed . |
| 16 | To overcome this barrier , I suggest , one must look at the approach in action ; only then will it be possible to see what it has achieved , and to assess what it might achieve if taken on its own terms . |
| 17 | But not if he had time to think what it would do to his career . ’ |
| 18 | For Gandhi , particular religions are necessary to convey what it might mean to speak of the one , true and perfect Religion which is beyond predication and not realized within finite existence . |
| 19 | but it 's a good enough approximation just to see what it 'll look like . |
| 20 | Just to see what it would feel like , Boy tried hard to copy this attitude during the film he watched the next afternoon . |
| 21 | Having a new ‘ toy ’ naturally I played with it to see what it would do . |
| 22 | So I phoned around various contacts to see what it would cost me to have a tank made up by the ‘ local chap that most enthusiasts and many dealers tend to have tucked away somewhere . |
| 23 | Anyway s to cut a long story short , I had a word with Stuart to see what it 'd cost . |
| 24 | They think ah look there 's a bit of drop of water in , there 's a packet of something let's stick it in and stir it up , they never read a packet to see what it could do . |
| 25 | I expect the Scottish Transport Group , before reaching a decision on assistance , to see what it could do to encourage any separate teams to come together to mount a single bid . |
| 26 | In a sense it is all too easy in retrospect to see what it must have been that hurried Elizabeth to that early grave . |
| 27 | Similarly , when Gould says he is prepared to be persuaded about electoral reform , he needs to say what it would take to persuade him . |
| 28 | Delors ' proposals were clearly out of all proportion to that figure , and he was soon obliged to retreat with a lame explanation that he had been ‘ arguing from the absurd to show what it would cost to achieve such a goal ’ . |
| 29 | This gave the new kitchen the perfect opportunity to show what it could achieve . |