Example sentences of "[prep] what it [vb mod] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | below what it should be and that we are asking single-person households , on average , to subsidise households of two or more persons in the payment of the council tax . |
| 2 | Memories were fresh of what it may be fair to call ‘ America 's failure in China ’ . |
| 3 | Petersburg encourages his vicious loose-end tendency , as it teases Svidrigailov with phantom images of what it would be like to be an occupied man . |
| 4 | Eagerly , Wilson waited for an answer , quite convinced of what it would be . |
| 5 | The story I 'm working on started with the idea of what it would be like to break your glasses on holiday . |
| 6 | It does n't offer you a definition , but by the end of the chapter you should be able to give your own definition of what it would be like if you were more assertive . |
| 7 | I simply regarded these absences as a lesson , a foretaste of what it would be like when they became a permanence . |
| 8 | Now it was I who could n't move ; more than that I was n't even able to form an idea of what it would be like to move . |
| 9 | Er my Lord er the second observation I make about erm Mr opinion erm and the facts upon which it is based is that his opinion is hotly disputed er , not least because of what it would be submitted is the highly speculative nature of this enterprise er , when you are being asked to consider with the benefit of hindsight , whether or not a business entered into some eighty years ago , was likely to have failed and er it is also an exercise which in my submission is entirely irrelevant if your Lordship would find the basis of compensation which I contend for is the one because the logic of not having to become involved in any investigation of whether or not this business would probably have been unsuccessful in any event . |
| 10 | Please ! ’ she begged , all pride gone and only the shadow left , the thought of what it would be like if it swallowed her up and he should leave her wrenching the words from between her lips . |
| 11 | But on the other hand if one has no vision , no sense of what it might be worthwhile to do , then there is equally clearly no point in trying to do anything . |
| 12 | We at least have a subjective idea of what an echo is , but we have almost no subjective idea of what it might be like to perceive an electric field . |
| 13 | But in spite of a pretty widespread discontent with education as it is , there is no clear view of what it should be . |
| 14 | All the indications are that man 's efforts successfully to modify and refine the product of the evolutionary process by the introduction of civilisation , have been almost destroyed by the tangled mass of religious absurdity and rubbish which he has allowed to enter into it , and reduce it to but a tragic travesty of what it should be . |
| 15 | Basically , however , the difference between these and other areas lies in the attitude to new development , either whether it should be permitted at all ( it often is not ) or , if it is , of what it should be constructed — the materials used generally have to be traditional , for example , stone in the Lake District . |
| 16 | We begin to change the role to include our expectations of what it should be . |
| 17 | That choice should not be limited to ’ the way we have always done it ’ or by the organisation 's view of what it should be delivering . |
| 18 | So the amount available to her to spend will fall short of what it should be by the amount of that tax . |
| 19 | My sense of how to go on determined by the vividness of my imagination of what it will be like when done . |
| 20 | We are excited about this part of our course , but a bit unsure of what it will be like to work in a foreign country . |
| 21 | At the end of the fifth month the length has grown to around 250 millimetres about half the length of a full-term baby but the weight is still only about a tenth of what it will be at birth . |
| 22 | At least if it were pitch black we could really get an idea of what it will be like to ‘ walk through the Channel Tunnel ’ . |
| 23 | What do you think , have you an idea of what it will be . |
| 24 | We are not denying that in the case of an alien culture one has less right to criticize than in one 's own , out of lack of experience of what it can be like to live in it . |
| 25 | The majority of the articles in this section move on from accounts of what it can be like ‘ being there ’ , to ‘ looking out ’ at some of the external issues which impinge on the teaching of mathematics in schools . |
| 26 | I am wondering if you have any idea of what it could be ? ’ |
| 27 | OUR super EXCLUSIVE Wallchart features 14 of the terrible tearaways and the dramatic full-colour pictures give you just a hint of what it must be like to meet them in the ring . |
| 28 | She gave him what was left of the already denuded packet : only two hundred pounds , it was true , and nothing like what it should be . |
| 29 | I personally have much to be grateful for to those linguists who have gone on ahead and erected signposts , and I hope the examples I have used today illustrate my conviction that , notwithstanding its theoretical manoeuverings and terminological idiosyncrasies , an awareness of the questions and findings of linguistic research can help turn our language study into what it should be , a voyage of discovery . |
| 30 | ‘ The consciousness secretly indwelling in matter , the occult inhabitant , is able to make its way upward from the lower to the higher gradations , taking up what it was into what it is and preparing to take up both into what it will be . |