Example sentences of "[is] [adv] what [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet , according to much of the advertising used to promote and sell these products , that 's exactly what should happen . |
| 2 | Indeed , since the female has the prime investment in young , this is exactly what would be expected from Trivers 's elaboration of Darwin 's account of sexual selection ( p. 52 ) . |
| 3 | This is exactly what would be expected if alcohol acts as a spindle disrupting agent . |
| 4 | But in any case , the truth of this determinist claim is exactly what would have to be proved in order to substantiate Plekhanov 's thesis . |
| 5 | Certainly some seed was wasted but this is exactly what used to happen . |
| 6 | It is worth noting that there are not a few cases where constructions containing postverbal adjectives are equivalent to different structures having the same subject and the same adjectival and verbal properties , but with the former now in ordinary predicative position and the latter replaced by an adverb : ( 61 ) Mario seemed regretful Mario was apparently regretful ( 62 ) the sharks remain dangerous the sharks are still dangerous This is exactly what could have been expected , given structure ( 47 ) . |
| 7 | Thus the interaction between these stimuli is just what would be expected from considerations of generalization decrement and is not that predicted by conditioned attention theory . |
| 8 | This capacity of the adjective to stand alongside the verb is just what would be expected if there is a specially close link between the verb and the adjective in the case of the adverbal construction . |
| 9 | ‘ In fact , that 's still what may have happened , is n't it ? |
| 10 | Had Pétain , the man who was to carry out Castelnau 's decision , been in de Castelnau 's place it is probably what would have happened . |
| 11 | This is probably what will happen at a shareholders ' meeting on March 13th , thanks to a closing of ranks by Germany 's top industrialists . |
| 12 | What is best in this case is undoubtedly what will be quickest and simplest . |
| 13 | ‘ And yet , this frightening scenario I outline to you this evening is precisely what will happen arising from the global plans of these major American-owned multi-nationals . ’ |
| 14 | It is certainly what would be expected if the latent inhibitor functions like a CS- but it could just as easily be a consequence of generalization decrement — adding another stimulus to the excitatory CS might modify the way in which the latter is perceived and thus reduce its ability to evoke the CR . |