Example sentences of "question [prep] what [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 Hilary Wade was taken by the question about what might have happened on these islands had the Romans left us alone .
2 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 .
3 This was the thorny question of what would happen eventually to the reactor 's residue of radioactive waste .
4 Since this policy was never implemented , the question of what would have happened if the resources for new hostels had not been forthcoming remains hypothetical .
5 ‘ It 's not a question of what would have happened if , it 's what will happen .
6 By this definition , the question of what would count as a comprehensive health service could be said to be a polycentric one .
7 Theorists who reflect about the ways in which things might have been different are bound to consider the question of what might have made events take another course .
8 There is also the question of what will happen to the nuclear waste if the client country does not have the facilities to accept it when Dounreay is ready to return it .
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