Example sentences of "[prep] what [modal v] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After what could only be described as a very spirited fight a small but brilliantly coloured koi of about 7lb came to the net and I remember looking at it with disbelief that such a small fish could have pulled so hard . |
| 2 | The Court did not however think that it fell so far below what might properly be imposed by way of sentence so as to justify the Court in interfering so as to increase the sentence . |
| 3 | Then Harry discovers that happiness does not consist ‘ in getting what one wanted , or in getting rid of what ca n't be got rid of , but in a different vision . ’ |
| 4 | Pop is hysteria , a neurotic symptom of what may well be the last days of Western capitalism . |
| 5 | They had initiated an experimental effort to pioneer a form of what may best be called developmental social care . |
| 6 | Instead , the Report offers a discourse which both addresses and speaks on behalf of what may strictly be identified as " national intellectuals " . |
| 7 | Having lain unnoticed for a number of years , Patinkin 's insights have recently been elaborated and refined in the works of Robert Clower and in the writings of what may loosely be called the French Keynesian School , the most prominent member of which is Edmond Malinvaud ( see Malinvaud , 1980 and 1985 ) . |
| 8 | The effect of such imagery is to enrich or enlarge our concept of the male , or of what may truly be said to be ‘ masculine ’ . |
| 9 | In the foregrounding model , stylistic value has a slightly different meaning from that which it has in the " stylistic variants " model : it refers to the special act of interpretation which we make in order to make sense of what would otherwise appear strange and unmotivated . |
| 10 | We saw evidence of what would later promise to be a riot of butterflies with entire bushes covered by baby caterpillars and chrysalises . |
| 11 | A concern to return to such primitive roots no doubt explains why in his draft synopsis he originally used the word ‘ Melocomic ’ of what would later become his ‘ Fragments of an Aristophanic Melodrama ’ . |
| 12 | More serious still were the questions raised by the emergence of what would later be termed ‘ higher criticism ’ . |
| 13 | At the same time , all forms of what would usually be considered popular music can in principle be disseminated by face-to-face methods ( for instance , in concerts ) rather than the mass media , and can be made available free , or even structured as collective participation , rather than sold as a commodity ; it is hard to believe that a few friends , jamming on ‘ Born in the USA ’ at a party , are not producing ‘ popular music ’ . |
| 14 | While we were waiting at about 10.30 p.m. to go on night shift , we were subjected to a certain amount of what would now be called ‘ sexual harassment ’ , which we learned to parry quite neatly ; but the arrangement did seem a little thoughtless on the part of the B.P. Transport Department . |
| 15 | Indeed it is well known that societies which were very poor , by all later standards , allotted very significant time , energy and resources to the production of what would now be distinguished as art-objects . |
| 16 | It would be wrong to claim that Darwinism had no impact on the study of what would now be called ecological relationships , but the impact was indirect . |
| 17 | He could also have taken into account , if he was aware of it , that the effect of requiring an undertaking in damages from the council would be to cause the collapse of the law enforcement process in this area of law ; and further that the enforcement of the law was not merely desirable as such in the public interest , but that small retailers could well suffer if large retailers such as Wickes were able to continue to trade with impunity during a significant period in contravention of what might well prove to be a perfectly valid law . |
| 18 | The accounts which local sign theorists have given of what might loosely be called the ‘ experience ’ of localisation have , in the main , been variations on three themes . |
| 19 | In terms of the question of what might usefully be compared , typologies are very important in comparative analysis . |
| 20 | There is a bitter twist of irony in these last lines which completely changes the complexion of what might before have been viewed as a sentimental poem . |
| 21 | Both writing and speech require context to make sense of what might formally be ambiguous . |
| 22 | Throughout her long seduction in city streets , Clarissa 's mind returns continually to her Dairy House , both as an image of what might still be , but also of what was — her virginal nature . |
| 23 | One of the very first of them was Rossini 's Elisabetta Regina d'Inghilterra , which revolves around a real enough subject : the execution of what might now be called political prisoners . |
| 24 | He landed in a heap of what might once have been straw . |
| 25 | While it lasts , of course , it 's both ecstasy and agony : totally obsessive — every waking moment — and some dreaming ones — full of him and her ; delightful fantasies of what might perhaps be the actual realisation of some of those fantasies . |
| 26 | It was dispiriting to live with such an example of what might conceivably happen to us . |
| 27 | The words ‘ obligation ’ and ‘ right ’ provide no analysis of what might actually occur within the relationships between the parties and between the parties and non-parties , or of the chain of action and response that is likely to unwind from the conclusion and subsequent performance of any treaty . |
| 28 | It is unfortunate that the CACs were seen as a political football and they provide an interesting indication of what might possibly happen were all legal services to be funded from local or central government . |
| 29 | Standard hierarchical models , however , allow too little interaction between the knowledge sources : within a strictly hierarchical system , one can not interleave the processes associated with each different level of knowledge , and hence one can not allow the very early filtering out by higher-level components of what might only be partial analyses at lower levels . |
| 30 | I am grateful for the opportunity to make a brief contribution to the early stages of what will probably be the longest general election campaign in modern times . |