Example sentences of "to what they [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was saying that the gods had so far been unkind , that they might turn kind , but that what the gods did for him was secondary to what they might do for Niki , a remark that turned out to be prophetic . |
| 2 | But the biblical material may simply not be amenable to what they would say . |
| 3 | Has the Minister considered whether it would make more sense if young men and women from working-class families who leave school at 16 or 17 and are thrown into slave labour schemes where they earn a little over £20 a week , but who want to stay on at school , could stay on and be paid a sum equivalent to what they would get on training schemes ? |
| 4 | If by our standards their lot was a hard one , what they suffered inside was nothing to what they would have had to endure outside from a still brutalised populace . |
| 5 | We think now , as Christmas approaches , and that elusive fishkeeping present becomes top priority , is the perfect time to get the unbiased recommendations of our experts as to what they would buy , given the chance . |
| 6 | Their measure of their health status was related to what they could do , rather than to the presence of current disease or conditions . |
| 7 | At least out here they had to play according to some sort of standard of fairness , even if it was a standard they could change as they went along according to how it suited them ( like doubling the bus fares just after he 'd found that job way out in Brentford ) , but in prison , even more so than in a mental hospital , there were no real limits to what they could do to him . |
| 8 | My legacy to my children would be not to try to influence them in any way as to what they should study . |
| 9 | When the time came there was not much doubt as to what they should do . |
| 10 | It insists that this is therefore the best guide to what they should do , that it points out the right direction for continuing and developing that practice . |
| 11 | They were walking round the house speculating as to what they should sell and had paused here in this far from gloomy room , this warm , sunny , charming room , and laughed at that gloomy picture , at its sentimental naivety . |
| 12 | They will not be pressurised as to what they should put on or should not put on . |
| 13 | Even when you have reached a rational decision as to what they should learn , watching them do it can be agony as well as ecstasy . |
| 14 | Researchers are not constrained to what they can observe or experience directly , but are able to cover as many facets of as many people as resources allow . |
| 15 | P. A friendly person , someone who is good to session with , someone who can appreciate someone else 's skating and not to judge them as to what they can do but also who they are and how they are . |
| 16 | When you are talking about 12,000 children , many only young teenagers , there is a limit to what they can do for themselves and the help of the aid community is obviously vital . |
| 17 | There is a difference , I think , between making children feel responsible for righting the wrongs of the world that we as adults have created , but at the same time to be able to enable them to think constructively as to what they can do . |
| 18 | Can can I just say that I think it 's interesting that Mao 's sort of targeting the local tyrants and the erm the evil gentry I mean because you could , you could ar argue that basically the landlords are only trying to get a return erm which is , which is equal to what they can get if they invest all their money in or you know erm or whatever or big cities |
| 19 | There are limits to what they can say in explaining their beliefs , the sort of limits which we tend to accept when imagining the constraints upon giving a blind person some understanding of what the world looks like ( although , as said , it would be wrong to suppose that we could communicate nothing in such circumstances ) . |
| 20 | While ‘ real consciousness ’ might be what people in a given group actually think , it does not necessarily correspond to what they will do or how they will respond to changes either in their situation or in the information they have . |
| 21 | In theory it is possible to obtain insurance against warranty liability ( e.g. Directors and officers ) but in practice the insurers are normally so demanding in the kind of confirmations they require and so restrictive as to what they will insure ( eg not taxation ) that this is rarely practicable or worthwhile . |
| 22 | ‘ No matter , it will serve as a useful antidote to what they will try and inculcate you with at school , that 's its chief virtue . |