Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] what [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even though I may be in a minority , I feel quite strongly that the job of the record companies is to issue recordings of music at prices the music loving public can afford — not to enhance that price by paying for learned disquisitions seeking to explain what ought to need no explanation . |
| 2 | Given the different political cultures that exist , seeking to anticipate what would happen in Britain on the basis of experience abroad is an undertaking of limited usefulness . |
| 3 | Within the room a meeting of the Coal Club was in progress , while in the shadows , others of my uncles crouched , waiting to see what would happen . ) |
| 4 | Sam hovered , waiting to see what would follow , but Thacker seemed to be in a good mood . |
| 5 | The rest of the barrack was absolutely quiet , waiting to see what would happen . |
| 6 | Morale among the British troops is good and everyone is waiting to see what will happen . |
| 7 | " So now you 're going to have what might well prove to be a boy , very likely is from the way you 're growing . |
| 8 | Across in Frocester they 'll be celebrating come what may … the Lords final clashes with the annual beer festival … |
| 9 | How , when she was where she was , and he was where he was , was she going to achieve what must be achieved ? |
| 10 | In deciding whether a scheme is reasonable , the court will not necessarily decide against the scheme if it is attempting to achieve what could not be achieved under the compulsory sale procedures of CA 1985 , s429 ( ie because there is a dissenting minority shareholder who holds more than 10 per cent of the shares to which the offer relates or for some other reason such procedures can not be used ) . |
| 11 | ‘ There 's still a lot that can be done with that before we get to having to establish what would effectively be private sector mini-Audit Commissions ’ , said . |
| 12 | Then came Hiroshima and Nagasaki , and miraculously the whole things was over , instead of our having to face what would probably be a long naval and air war against Japan , which we should of course have won in the end — after unthinkable losses of men and equipment . |
| 13 | Having addressed the President and the Congress , and having conducted what must have been one of the first lecture tours of the United States , Owen set up a village of Co-operation at New Harmony , in Indiana . |
| 14 | This is the so-called counterfactual problem ( common in historical studies ) of being able to observe the world of X happening and assessing the impact of X only by trying to suppose what would have happened if X had not happened . |
| 15 | Far too much scholarly energy has been wasted in trying to assess what would have happened to industrialization without the railways . |
| 16 | But trying to measure what will happen over a span of two decades is a hazardous task and the Central Planning Bureau admits to uncertainty . |
| 17 | The tradesman who put him there knew this , and hoped that by being removed to such unfamiliar and unpleasant surroundings his debtor would soon see the sense of agreeing to do what would immediately return him to the comparative comfort of his own home , namely to surrender , in settlement of his debt , the real estate which the law did not allow the trader to touch . |