Example sentences of "of what they [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So should voters , it would be rather absurd I think , well Mill thinks , that if jurors were expected to come to a decision on the basis of what they would prefer , would you prefer this person to be sent down or would you prefer them to get off . |
| 2 | He knew why they had swept him from his horse and he was terrified of what they would do to him . |
| 3 | When pressed and asked , ’ What if British Steel refuses to change its policy after talking ? ’ the Opposition gave no indication of what they would do . |
| 4 | Consumers are prepared to wait for sales and even go for cheaper versions of what they would buy in better times , says a survey published yesterday . |
| 5 | We did not make it clear that the table showed not the banks ' actual ratios but a hypothetical estimate of what they would have been had the banks not borrowed subordinated loans to boost their capital ( as Japan 's finance ministry let them do after June ) . |
| 6 | The by-laws were lawful not because of what they said but rather because of what they would have said if they had been drafted lawfully . |
| 7 | Because of what they would have done to us . ’ |
| 8 | It has even led in extreme cases to a few excavators being so certain of what they would find before they put a spade into the ground , that evidence was selected and rejected in accordance with their predetermined thinking . |
| 9 | The first important facet of this inside story is teachers ' own view of what they would wish the job to be like . |
| 10 | With such facts in mind , the preference utilitarian may suggest that our aim should be not just that people should somehow have as much subjective experience as possible of the kinds they most prefer , but that as much as possible of what they would like to have happen should happen . |
| 11 | Both speakers will give an account of their work and of what they would like from a supervisor . |
| 12 | Alan was well aware of his own gifts and of what they might lead him to become , but I am not sure he entirely welcomed his role as a leader of lesser men . |
| 13 | I had felt all my life that lavatory and bedroom doors should be kept firmly shut , for fear of what they might reveal . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , if we are ever to make new discoveries about intonation , it will be as a result of studying what people actually say rather than inventing examples of what they might say . |
| 15 | Clearly some very large forces have disrupted the outer regions of the Solar System at some stage , or stages , in the past , but we have no idea of when or of what they might have been . |
| 16 | Her tone made it clear that if he wished , coffee was only the beginning of what they might have time for . |
| 17 | Yet in the end this too can be counterproductive , with children becoming confused or cynical in the face of what they may begin to see as so much mere noise . |
| 18 | Bills would arrive and I 'd just leave them unopened , frightened of what they 'd say . |
| 19 | Only the husk , the empty shell of what they 'd come for . |
| 20 | If Sacu is to choose the latter road , the NSC may have to give them a clearer idea of what they will meet as they travel along it . |
| 21 | ‘ … this is only the beginning of what they will do ; and nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them ’ ( 11.6 ) . |
| 22 | It is not other people or outward events that cause harmful stress , but the way we perceive such external factors and our fears of what they will do to us . |
| 23 | They are too frightened to leave their homes at night because they are terrified of what they will come back to . |
| 24 | If we designed a questionnaire to ask people what they did in their free time , how would we know whether the answers we received gave us a true picture of how they spend that time ; or a picture of what they will say to a researcher when they are asked the question ? |
| 25 | Yet , the medicalization of health within our society has left people generally unaware of what they can do to maintain their own health . |
| 26 | Since they are presumed to be the only judges of how good their work is , no layman or other outsider can make any judgment of what they can do . |
| 27 | As we will see , hesitations are an important subject of study because of what they can reveal about the mechanisms being employed when people produce spoken language . |
| 28 | For them , the cost is this anxiety , and the fact that ( because of the rate of charge on their credit obligations , which commonly is high ) they are poorer , in terms of what they can buy , than they would otherwise have been . |
| 29 | If children fear that their parents will stop loving them when they are naughty , they soon absorb the idea of what they must do . |
| 30 | It has to be done , thought Taliesin , torn between agony for Fergus and the knowledge of what they must do . |