Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [prep] [Wh det] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are no easy answers but maybe a few guidelines as to what might be happening , for Margaret , staring dry-eyed and forlorn into a new day , and for all the other people who have ever had that sort of feeling . |
| 2 | said about the Animal Procedures Act of nineteen eighty six , erm , I know she 's been told about the animals are killed painlessly and that they suffer very little pain , where there 's any pain at all , but in fact this act erm which is governed by a committee only erm issues guidelines as to what might happen . |
| 3 | There will be disputes as to what should be the constitution . |
| 4 | And he was under no illusions as to what might happen to their relationship if Philippe Chaumont returned . |
| 5 | It was for this same reason that José Antonio Primo de Rivera , while supporting the military rising , had harboured serious doubts as to what might be the fate of his party in the event of a triumph by the military . |
| 6 | This scene reveals that Macbeth is now feeling insecure and paranoid about losing the kingship and so he consults the witches as to what will happen to him . |
| 7 | Since in the case of a solicitors ' partnership all parties to such agreements should be taken as being familiar with the legal principles governing covenants in restraint of trade as well as with the particular circumstances of the practice with which they have all been involved , it might be thought that the court would be unwilling to substitute its own ideas as to what might constitute reasonable protection for the business . |
| 8 | ‘ You have a very narrow range of ideas as to what can be done with Pickerage in the bog . |
| 9 | There were doubts about the practicalities and about what would happen if there was a poor turnout . |
| 10 | We only have theories as to what might really be involved . |
| 11 | Do you carry out your research by studying actual disasters as they take place or do you build models , theories as to what might take place ? |
| 12 | It reviews research that has already been conducted in this area and offers suggestions as to what may be priorities for future support . |
| 13 | Chrissy Allott , Catherine Snelling and Nick Spokes of Fullwell Cross Library in Ilford , Essex , have written to me in response to Brough Girling 's recent call for suggestions as to what might have happened in grown-up life to the heroes and heroines of the children 's books of our youth . |
| 14 | If children are fully involved in planning an investigation , then further evidence of their existing ideas can be gained from their suggestions as to what should be tested and how . |
| 15 | Erm w I mean where they do n't work when somebody offers code and they do n't work , there 's not a lot you can do other than sort of make some informed guesses as to what might be going wrong . |
| 16 | I have suggested that a meaningful way to set the limits as to what may rightly be called a Christian position , is that Christians are those who proclaim Jesus to have been unique . |
| 17 | We can pull out of the Common Market and out of NATO , but there are practical limits as to what can be done from within British politics to overcome the external constraints on the development of public policy in Britain since we are part of the world economy . |
| 18 | Mira takes these facts and re-inserts them in narrative — not the original narrative representations from which they were drawn , for these are inaccessible to her , — but playful conjectures as to what might have been . |
| 19 | Debate has been fierce between Liberal and Labour historians as to what can be proved from the by-elections of 1911–14 about the relative strength of the two Progressive parties ; it is an indecisive argument in its very nature because of the confused pattern of results and the lack of any truly comparable figures for 1910 or 1906 . |
| 20 | ‘ Well , all Heather 's friends and relatives have racked their brains for clues as to what might have become of her , as you can imagine , and I remembered her mentioning visiting you here a few months ago . ’ |
| 21 | Where in the 1930s the mother was given solemn warnings as to what would happen if she disobeyed the rules , the mode now is to refer her , with continual reassurances however , to what might possibly result from some mistaken handlings : ‘ Here 's what happens once in a while when the needs of the child are n't recognized ’ ( Spock , 1946 , chapter on ‘ The Two Year Old ’ ) . |
| 22 | My Government accepted your presence here despite warnings as to what might happen if they did so ! ’ |
| 23 | Allied misgivings as to what might be the real meaning of Spanish " non-belligerence " were deepened by the way Spain appeared to be moving closer to the Axis in the autumn of 1940 . |