Example sentences of "what it [vb mod] [vb infin] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | NT wo n't support SMP until version 2 , still some 18 months out in any case , and Microsoft has n't yet decided what it 'll do for that stuff yet . |
| 2 | A person does not buy the product but rather buy what it 'll do for him or her . |
| 3 | but it 's a good enough approximation just to see what it 'll look like . |
| 4 | That 's what it 'll have on it . |
| 5 | From this it follows that we could give some account of what it might mean to ‘ change the context ’ in the sense in which Fillmore ( 1977 : 119 ) envisages this when he says ‘ I … find myself asking what the effect would have been if the context had been slightly different . ’ |
| 6 | For a while he tried to read , tried to sink back down into the fortunes of young Pao-yu and his beloved cousin , Tai-yu , but it was no good ; his mind kept returning to the question of the Aristotle File and what it might mean for Chung Kuo . |
| 7 | This leaflet is intended to provide a concise overview of the 1992 process , focusing on what it might mean for local authorities . |
| 8 | To go onstage in the flag is to be a 50p magnet , no matter what it might mean in an ideal world . |
| 9 | ‘ … and the moral of that [ said the Duchess ] is — ‘ Be what you would seem to be ’ — or , if you 'd like it put more simply — ‘ Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise . |
| 10 | We are looking for people who can accept that the past has passed and , whilst remembering it with fondness , can also look to the future and view what it might bring with a degree of optimism and hope . |
| 11 | ‘ Scared of what it might lead to ? ’ he asked with gentle mockery . |
| 12 | The present American tendency is to ask what a country can now do for itself and for the United States , not what it might do in other circumstances , nor yet what it deserves . |
| 13 | Advocates of localization were in the same position as the explorers of the sixteenth century ; they knew there was something out there but they did n't know where it was or what it might look like . |
| 14 | Finally , All that Dwell Therein shows that the debate is important , not just for the effect it might ultimately have on our treatment of animals , but for what it might reveal about ourselves . |
| 15 | My wife and I loved a challenge in those days and we could see what it might become with hard work , but it was a real challenge , no mistake . |
| 16 | Those who like Jenny in our case-study find themselves avoiding conflict at all costs , never facing up to issues , never expressing hurt or anger for fear of what it might release in others , need to do some work on this point . |
| 17 | Syria was asked to consider what it would give in return for Israeli withdrawal from the Golan Heights . |
| 18 | And as he leaned against the railings he suddenly tasted it , the moment Creed had planned for him , the moment he 'd always longed for , dreaded now , still longed for , and it was burnt sugar , sweet and caustic , on his tongue , it was like the flight of a bird across a window , it was there and it was gone , he could n't dwell on it , he could n't let the terror in , all he knew was what it would do for him , he knew that it would give him membership , he 'd be past the sliding sheet of glass , he 'd finally belong . |
| 19 | But not if he had time to think what it would do to his career . ’ |
| 20 | So if y if the chemicals will do that over a long period of time to rubber , think what it would do to your skin . |
| 21 | Strawberries and cream ; and damn what it would do to her waistline . |
| 22 | God knows what it would do to the inside of anyone 's stomach . |
| 23 | By contrast , the Labour party has been silent about new technology , preferring to mutter about unemployment without putting forward detailed proposals as to what it would do about the problem beyond throwing public money at the dole queues . |
| 24 | He did not have to suppose that an animal could foresee the consequences of its behaviour ; still less did he have to suppose that an animal could imagine what it would do in its partner 's place . |
| 25 | This uncertainty principle of Heisenberg showed that one could not measure the state of a system exactly , so one could not predict exactly what it would do in the future . |
| 26 | Tap the tiling at intervals to see if it is hollow , and make a note of any work that you would need to carry out , guessing what it would cost to the nearest £100 . |
| 27 | Over the years , the price of that work leapt from $6,000 ( an appraisal Hoelzer offered to the federal government in 1972 ) to more than $60,000 ( a 1980 estimate by Hoelzer of what it would cost to fully repaint , line and mount the panels ) . |
| 28 | Such is their determination that the actual value of the item they want to buy — in comparison with what it would cost at home — becomes irrelevant . |
| 29 | ‘ Of the 65 per cent of companies not using credit insurance , half had no idea what it would cost as a percentage of total sales value , indicating that the industry has a real job to do explaining how little properly structured credit insurance can cost : often 0.5 per cent of turnover or less . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ See what it would cost for a couple of places on her ? ’ |