Example sentences of "on what it [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In research for the advertising campaign — where we carried out in-depth , face-to-face interviews with senior representatives of 50 existing and potential customers — we looked at existing attitudes and probed them on what it would take to persuade them to come to us to answer their problems . |
| 2 | This leaflet is intended to provide a concise overview of the 1992 process , focusing on what it might mean for local authorities . |
| 3 | For some suggestions on what it might do , if we can ever find it , see Johnson-Laird ( 1983 ) . |
| 4 | Its activities have grown with every year , but public financing has not , so it is more and more dependent on what it can extract through planning regulations from the developers and industrialists themselves . |
| 5 | Implicit in the notion of a game is that of taking a risk , and one bases one 's decision on what it will cost if one loses . |
| 6 | The debate there has hardly started : for example , when John Smith says he is in favour of a bill , he needs to be pressed on what it will contain ( social and economic rights as well as political ones ? ) ; and whether it will be repealable by a simple majority of the Commons . |
| 7 | Each organisation will have to publish explicit standards on what it will offer to its customers . |
| 8 | Settling in , I looked out of the window and reflected on what it must have been like for the men building the Trans-Australia Railway when hundreds of navvies , using horses , camels and a few machines , battled their way across the inhospitable plain , which in winter crackles underfoot with frost while summer temperatures exceed a baking 50°C . |