Example sentences of "how it [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The delay in issuing the album may well have been because of CBS 's anxiety about how it would go with Davis 's fusion fans . |
| 2 | actually I , the dose that I had to take , I cut them down to see how it would go but , I must admit , I suffered from it Doctor , |
| 3 | We have already considered the horse 's needs , which gives us insight as to how it would feel if deprived of them . |
| 4 | They wept and clanked their chains and speculated on how it would feel to be eaten alive by the lions . |
| 5 | ‘ I know so much about it , from a working point of view , that is , that I ca n't really envisage how it would feel to be such a complete outsider , and yet privately so necessary to someone . |
| 6 | Her imagination had run wild as she had fantasised tirelessly about how it would feel to have him hold her , his mouth pressed in passion against her own . |
| 7 | ‘ Just think , ’ she said , smiling , ‘ how it would feel if you were head … of the family . ’ |
| 8 | Rome was not France , he would be essential in Rome , and if-they took him with Annunciata she knew what would happen in no time at all and how it would leave her . |
| 9 | Rhys considers it unwise to attempt radically to alter taxes on large cars , as proposed by Labour : ‘ You ca n't just decimate the luxury car trade , ’ he says , ‘ Most big cars may well come from Germany but you have to consider how it would affect the dealer network . ’ |
| 10 | If you took it away I I it would be difficult to say quite how it would affect . |
| 11 | Then the strategy ‘ cooperate with your neighbour if he cooperates ; otherwise defect ’ would be an ESS , although I have some difficulty in seeing how it would evolve in the first place . |
| 12 | Understanding how it would react ? |
| 13 | We will canvass views on how such a lottery should be run and controlled , and how it would fit within the pattern of charitable fund-raising in Britain . |
| 14 | But he sympathised with others : ‘ You can see how it would do the post offices harm and nobody would want that , ’ he said . |
| 15 | Despite the introduction of the ESL , the EC was concerned about how it would collect its statistics relating to the movement of goods among member states when internal frontiers came down . |
| 16 | And that is how it would remain , until such time as the people would be free to worship in their religion and be proud of their centuries-old heritage . |
| 17 | Your Board has also , of course , looked very hard at how it would ensure we maintain the present secure and friendly image of Abbey National . |
| 18 | It is rather less easy to see how it would lead to interference effects like those described in Chapter 4 . |
| 19 | The Government would be prepared to consider proposals er for private funds , but the British Library would also need to prepare a business case showing how it would meet the cost of the building and the ongoing costs . |
| 20 | for the last time , where you were told how it would end , |
| 21 | ‘ Oh , pooh to that , ’ said McAllister , wondering how this ridiculous conversation had started , and how it would end . |
| 22 | How it would end was a bit more certain . |
| 23 | She could not even imagine how it would end . ’ |
| 24 | And he had pigs ' eyes , was all that she could think as he said , ‘ Let me call you back , ’ into the phone and then cradled it before standing and , still holding her arm and not much caring about how it would hurt , moving to close the office door . |
| 25 | You see art that 's created by people who are killing themselves making it , and I always wonder how it would turn out if they were n't doing that . |
| 26 | I did n't anticipate how it would turn . |
| 27 | Warm things are said in the flush of the campaign but now that it 's over the first question the Tories should ask is how it would look to the country if a victorious party launched into a frontal assault on the BBC in the wake of its victory . |
| 28 | For instance , a group of adolescents intending to look at how a family might drive one of its members to suicide , began their drama by working out the family 's relative positions round the graveside , concerning themselves with ‘ how it would look if it were a still photograph ’ . |
| 29 | Unfortunately , very few people will appreciate just how much time , effort and sheer innovative thinking has gone into making the engine look similar to how it would look had we merely pressure washed the outside and mounted it for display . |
| 30 | This is how it would look diagrammatically . |