Example sentences of "of what [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The perfectionist is an anxious person , always afraid of what may go wrong . |
| 2 | As for the first , it should be remembered that for an Epicurean the worst pain is the groundless fear of what may happen after death , and that excessive unnatural desires are painful too . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm scared of what may happen when the children go back . |
| 4 | But , even then , it may fail and it should again be emphasised that family members benefit from their own sake from involvement in the Family Fellowships regardless of what may happen to the primary sufferer . |
| 5 | It is very worrying in terms of what may happen in the northern hemisphere " . |
| 6 | According to the director of the survey , Dr John Innes : " The results provide an indication of what may happen if summers in Britain become warmer because of the greenhouse effect . |
| 7 | In Gledhow Autoparts Ltd v Delaney [ 1965 ] 1 WLR 1366 Diplock LJ said " It is natural … to tend to look at what in fact happened under the agreement ; but the question of the validity of a covenant in restraint of trade has to be determined at the date at which the agreement was entered into and has to be determined in the light of what may happen under the agreement , although what may happen may be and always is different in some respects from what did happen . |
| 8 | Many people grow up frightened of what may come after this life because their minds have been filled since childhood with ideas of hell and damnation , judgment and punishment . |
| 9 | Herbs are cast into the fire by the Lady of the Flowers in lieu of what may have been gory sacrifices by our sun-worshipping ancestors . |
| 10 | Although , as we shall see , many varied and lengthy accounts of what may have been the distinguishing characteristics of the fabliaux have been produced , the short definition given by Bédier in 1893 still attracts support : the fabliaux , he declared , are " " contes à rire en vers " " . |
| 11 | I am frankly fearful of what may lie ahead for some of them . ’ |
| 12 | It was these implications of the greater clarity introduced by the Geneva Protocols on the prohibition of indiscriminate weapons that led the British government , in addition to its general reservation excluding their applicability to nuclear weapons , to formulate further specific reservations in respect of what may constitute a military objective . |
| 13 | Finally , we realise that we are only at the beginning of what may prove to be one of the most significant developments of the twentieth century . |
| 14 | These are signs of what may turn out to be a dramatic , if almost unnoticed , revolution in the higher education curriculum . |
| 15 | Armchair theorising may be a useful preliminary , a source of what may turn out to be interesting ideas , but for science to begin it must be secured to empirical results and its theories determined by them . |
| 16 | Rostov decided that it was easier to go in search of what would pass in the Simonova for a command bridge than it was to remain in his quarters , while Vorontseff attempted to eradicate within the space of an hour the accumulated disarray of several years of civilian occupation . |
| 17 | His pursuit of the same approach in his cantatas arose perhaps from a firm conviction of what would succeed in a genre so closely allied to opera , perhaps from innate conservatism . |
| 18 | As editor of the Criterion , Eliot at this period often used anthropological material , himself selecting books for review and reading every word of what would appear in print . |
| 19 | Whatever may be the limits of Article 235 , and it has been noted that it gave rise , even before the Community acquired its express environmental competence , to legislation on the conservation of wild birds , examples can be found of the development of what would appear to be new Community policies , without even a reference to Article 235 . |
| 20 | They were beginning to lay down a sound that would later become synonymous with The Wedding Present , but it missed the energy of what would come later . |
| 21 | An obvious and good choice of audience is their classmates because the student " reporters " will have a good idea of what would interest them . |
| 22 | For all his socialist language he was really an old style Tory Radical , despising the ‘ system ’ yet not possessing a clear vision of what would replace it . |
| 23 | ‘ I could n't bear to think of the future , of what would happen to her when we got old , if we got ill , when we died , or worse — whether she would only live a few years , ’ she says . |
| 24 | Peter Watkins made his first feature , Privilege ( 1967 ) , for an American company , after his astonishing depiction of what would happen if a nuclear bomb fell on Kent , The War Game ( 1965 ) , had been banned by the BBC . |
| 25 | I was well aware of what would happen and I just have to accept it . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Two days ago we got a dire warning of what would happen under Labour . |
| 27 | This was the question of what would happen to the material left over when the uranium rods had finished producing their electricity , when the exciting part of the process was over . |
| 28 | This was the thorny question of what would happen eventually to the reactor 's residue of radioactive waste . |
| 29 | We took Fujichrome , shot it at 5000 ASA and developed it at about 6400 ASA , we just pushed the shit out of it and we had no idea of what would happen . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Sometimes , ’ he went on in a low voice , ‘ I lie awake at night thinking of what would happen to this place if you should die without issue . ’ |