Example sentences of "what [modal v] be [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we are passive , and the ethereal medium which is the keeper of such images , not broken up by thought , is like clear glass or calm water , then there is often a glowing of colour and form upon it , and there is what may be a reflection from some earth memory connected with the place we move in or it may be we have direct vision of that memory … |
| 2 | Yes , I can en envisage that somewhere , perhaps a visitor 's a first step towards clarifying what may be a runner would be taken by Sarah at the moment , but er , which we would put an investigator straight from future , for example . |
| 3 | THE GREAT modern , moral questions of the right to life and the right to death will dominate what may be a landmark session of the US Supreme Court which begins this week . |
| 4 | For example , if one of a group of grazing horses spots what may be a predator , he will raise his head , neck and tail and flare his nostrils . |
| 5 | But there are other uses to which such information may be put , as the following example which examines what may be the evolution of a single name illustrates . |
| 6 | And I care not what may be the motive of the parents who bring their children and want them offered to Christ in the sacrament of baptism it is the grace of God that is available for them there and I think we should be very thoughtful about these matters and try to take up either one position or the other . |
| 7 | He represents , perhaps , the abstraction with which the fashionable intelligentsia of the capitalist West can contemplate warfare , towards what may be the end of almost half a century of unprecedented peace in their part of the world . |
| 8 | It remains to be seen whether the special provision built up over the last decade will survive what may be the collapse of pre-vocational college-based education . |
| 9 | ‘ This is a subject on which judges need , and should have , expert assistance from a clinical psychologist and not be left to flounder through what may be an ill-informed and perfunctory form of inquisition before the child gives evidence . ’ |
| 10 | We could see at least twelve entrances to what must be a labyrinth of tunnels . |
| 11 | ‘ This time , though , you have walked into what must be a time of private family discussion . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Do n't they teach you anything at that school ? ’ inquired Brian , not without some satisfaction at what must be the child 's discomfiture . |
| 13 | Niki 's phlegm about the whole incident can be summed up in what must be the driver 's quote of the decade : ‘ There is no point in having a complex about losing half an ear . ’ |
| 14 | Three men sat outside what must be the village inn . |
| 15 | Historicism presumes that a concept of history can be borrowed for Marxism from Hegel or from the practice of empiricist historians without difficulty and without asking how such a concept is specific to Marxism : for Althusser the crucial question is to ask ‘ what must be the content of the concept of history imposed by Marx 's theoretical problematic ? ’ |
| 16 | One wonders , then , what must be the effect of such an influx of fresh vitality upon biological processes ? |
| 17 | It 's four centimetres and the square is sixteen so , what must be the area of that square ? |
| 18 | Tory Press YOUR leading article ( Echo February 3 ) carried what must be the understatement of the year so far ‘ the Tories have more friends than Labour in the national Press . ’ |
| 19 | The grass sloped gently away from the college towards what must be the bank of the stream he had mentioned earlier . |
| 20 | He said there was a doctrine of fear in the Government about the treaty instead of what should be a doctrine of opportunity . |
| 21 | What should be a harrowing 90 minutes in hell ends up another tedious tourist nightmare devoid of historical perspective . |
| 22 | The bleak fact is that what should be a matter of political principle is being determined by calculations of party advantage . |
| 23 | For Julie Crew what should be a time of joy has become a time of pain and misery . |
| 24 | On this subject , like so many others in the exhibition , the labels are silent and what should be a catalogue is more of a souvenir brochure . |
| 25 | Such neglect undermines what should be the mutuality of a partnership . |
| 26 | But I ask myself one question : what should be the reparation for having been removed from life for 18 years , with my brothers ? |
| 27 | What should be the reparation for a mother who died of despair ? |
| 28 | What should be the reparation for a five year old child unfairly deprived of a father for 18 years ? |
| 29 | One abstract way of thinking about this is to think of a pragmatic theory as a " black box " ( an as yet unexplicated mechanism ) , and to ask : what should be the input to such a theory , and what should be the output ( or : what is the theory meant to predict , given what particular information ) ? |
| 30 | It may be important to carry out a preliminary field research exercise to identify : who are the " relevant population " and what they are like in general terms ; what type of research method will prove most cost-effective ; what should be the structure and content of the questionnaire , and how researchers should use it ; how the information collected is to be collated and classified . |