Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] what [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is as if the USA and the USSR were caught in the logic of the Prisoner 's Dilemma or the Chicken Game and the only sense in which this is not mere fiction is that it lets us predict successfully what will happen next . |
| 2 | It is not a question , he wrote , of drawing up an inventory of all that is required , because that suggests that one can know exactly what will be required . |
| 3 | As we do not know exactly what will appear in second-hand booksellers ' catalogues , the choice of books will of necessity have to be left to us , but your certificate will state the title of the book which you have presented . |
| 4 | It was too soon to know exactly what would happen to the factories if their efficiency remained in doubt after the 12 months are up , he said . |
| 5 | The teacher does not need to know exactly what will happen and can not usefully plan a story line very far ahead , but should give a great deal of thought to the organisation of the lesson : How will groups be divided ? |
| 6 | In our situation we had an incident — trivial by comparison with Peter 's — which illustrates well what may happen when someone has a teachable spirit . |
| 7 | Long hours and hard work , they say , show just what can be achieved . |
| 8 | We have looked at the different types of land and seen roughly what could be done with them . |
| 9 | They reveal precisely what can not be expressed through the closed categories of language or encompassed by the gaze alone . |
| 10 | Returning to Figure 2 we can see just what can be achieved for glass . |
| 11 | He was amazed with the improvement I had made and it showed just what can be achieved with hard practice . |
| 12 | ‘ They were Group-wide events which showed just what can be achieved and if we have the same support for the other planned events then we are confident we can hit our target of £10,000 . |
| 13 | In an easy flowing style , he shows just what can be achieved with a limited palette , two or three brushes and some watercolour paper . |
| 14 | Well erm I have thought now what shall I do after Christmas ? |
| 15 | First , however , we consider briefly what may happen further upstream , partly to illustrate how the long memory comes about and partly to make a link with earlier discussions of wakes ; i.e. we look at the ‘ intermediate wake ’ , ( intermediate to the ‘ near wake ’ immediately behind the obstacle and the ‘ far wake ’ which has become self-preserving ) . |
| 16 | As for the second part of my hon. Friend 's supplementary question , I can not anticipate entirely what will happen , but the reduction in mortgage interest rates will obviously have a beneficial effect . |
| 17 | We do it almost without thought — certainly without considering just what may become of the information . |
| 18 | She had been intending for days to make a start on clearing out the cloakroom ; now was the moment — she would make a preliminary survey , set aside what should be kept , see if there was anything good enough for Oxfam . |
| 19 | And when Jesus orders Judas to do quickly what must be done , he is not making a statement of clairvoyant resignation , but issuing explicit instructions . |
| 20 | You know well what can you see with your left eye ? |
| 21 | twinges take it off the hinges we was getting nowhere What shall we |
| 22 | I know too what will become of us when we are both dead . |
| 23 | The arrival of the ‘ Extremities , Dirt And Various Repressed Emotions ’ album seemed to provide an apt moment to compile the required discography and , thanks to help from readers John Elliot of Hawick and Mark from Sheffield along with Frank O'Donnell and his valiant cohorts at PolyGram , I 've managed to piece together what would seem to be a complete run-down . |
| 24 | Moreover if I were to fly there what should I do but renew sorrows and incur perhaps insupportable difficulties in attempting to record them . |
| 25 | She shivered , knowing instinctively what would have resulted if she had encouraged Luke the slightest bit . |
| 26 | Okay so this was worked out not really knowing anything about what 's going on here we 've got that and that go together what would happen well pretty good bet that you 'd get this calcium chloride cos that seems to form pretty easily . |
| 27 | Owner Ricci Burns says : ‘ Peter has a wonderful eye and he vetted all the outfits and knew exactly what would suit Tara . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Let us worry about that , ’ said the Captain , who knew exactly what would happen if nobody paid and that they would in all likelihood never find the body . |
| 29 | Mary , who of course knew exactly what would have to be paid , had already worked out her and Reggie 's shares . |
| 30 | The boy knew already what would happen to the woman . |