Example sentences of "what we [modal v] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What we would expect to find therefore is : |
| 2 | What we would demand given half a chance : Electro-shock treatment for anyone with home-made tattoos . |
| 3 | The railway is now business and client orientated , the work content that we go into , is decided by their requirements and not what we would like to give them . |
| 4 | ‘ What we would like to do , ’ says Dennis Tunnicliffe , ‘ is slow down the rate of growth because my system is full . |
| 5 | Women in the community need to find out what is possible for us as a prerequisite to identifying what is not available and what we would like to see . |
| 6 | In fact , morally we wiped the floor with them , or that is what we would like to think anyway . |
| 7 | One key feature of her method was to differentiate between ( 1 ) what we know ; ( 2 ) what we can guess or infer ; ( 3 ) what we do not know ; ( 4 ) what we would like to know in order to carry the enquiry further . |
| 8 | Of course , I can not go into detail about what we would seek to do , but I shall give one or two indications because that is only fair to the House . |
| 9 | We would not object to the guide my Lord but what we would object to do n't object to the guide my Lord but what we do object to is is what this er solicitor would have done in relation to it |
| 10 | Which is wh what we would have done if we 'd done |
| 11 | Well I thought what we wous what we would have done four fi four , five years ago like , I mean that would have been stopped and and and scrapped . |
| 12 | We sat on the bank , dejected , wondering what we would have to do to find ‘ proper ’ trout fishing , such as we had been brought up with in our native land . |
| 13 | The probability is , that given equal weather , other conditions , and price , the average British holidaymaker would prefer to holiday at home : What we would have to do is extend that appeal to people abroad , by service , value and the many unique features which Britain had on offer . |
| 14 | There followed a long period of explanation of what we did followed by negotiations on what we would have to do to meet the standard . |
| 15 | I , I , I mean I do think that w what we would have to do is , is if people started making inroads into two via this route , it might mean then we 'd get to the point where it was n't going to cost that much more to enable other scale one people |
| 16 | The reasons for this deficit are largely associated with the , the trend of pay and price increases outstripping our income , and outstripping our projections of what we would have to spend . |
| 17 | He admitted that the settlement was " not what we would have liked to have had . |
| 18 | As a matter of practice , and because we 've all got to live , we all draw about two-thirds of what we would have got last year as we go along , then share out the rest at the end of the year . ’ |
| 19 | Of course , an absurd price is exactly what we would have expected Ephron to suggest in the circumstances . |
| 20 | That is only what we would have expected them to do . |
| 21 | Is not that what we would have expected when the Government take on the 16 to 18-year-olds and perpetuate the myth that that age group is in full-time employment , in full-time training or in full-time education ? |
| 22 | What we would need to do is establish about Brown 's mental event and Green 's mental event that if either man also had the other 's experience , he could not distinguish in content between the two events . |
| 23 | It is a perfectly valid question , and we can at least write down what we would need to know in order to calculate the answer . |
| 24 | It is much harder to move from a visual , qualitative appreciation of what can be seen under the microscope to more quantitative measures of how much or how many of any component is present ; yet unless something entirely new was being synthesized as a result of training , then what we might anticipate observing would be small changes in the number , pattern or distribution of existing structures , particularly synapses . |
| 25 | This is in direct contrast to what we might expect to follow according to the inductivist view , namely , that in order to establish the truth of some problematic observation statement we appeal to more secure observation statements , and perhaps laws derived inductively from them , but not to theory . |
| 26 | Benjamin and Elizabeth and their family belonged , in effect , to what we might choose to call the ‘ comfortable working class ’ ; they benefited from the general rise in Britain 's prosperity in Victorian times — cheaper food and clothing , better sanitation , faster transport , more substantial housing — but their money still had to be earned , had to be worked for . |
| 27 | If I started on a catalogue of what is going wrong with the world , let alone what we might do to put it right , there would be no end . |
| 28 | But what he has to say in his tale may represent what we might like to believe such a character 's ribald attitudes towards women , towards his fellow men , and towards conventional morality would predictably be . |
| 29 | For some reason he was terrified about what we might have said of him behind his back . |
| 30 | Well what we might have to do is concoct something up on a letter , a stand have you a standard charge ? |