Example sentences of "[vb mod] [vb infin] [conj] [Wh det] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Politicians , accountants , television producers , newspaper editors and all such mandarins who have set themselves up as authorities with power to say yea or nay to us , to sift right from wrong , good from bad , lawful from criminal , and to decide what the rest of us may know and what we may not ( ‘ All the News that 's Fit to Print ’ ) exploit this wondrous paradoxical nature of language with uncanny skill to attain and retain their hegemony over others . |
| 2 | Or failing the gift of a sum in cash , I am asking you to make it a business transaction , to buy what you clearly must need and what we can no longer afford to keep . |
| 3 | The sufferer must know that what you say is the whole of what you believe and want to transmit . |
| 4 | But if you give me a blank sheet of paper and put a question , I 'm not really gon na tell you what you should include and what you should n't , yeah ? |
| 5 | We agree or disagree before we form any concrete opinions about which institutions or officials must act and what they must do in consequence of whatever rights we declare people have . |
| 6 | Sapt talked to me for three hours about what I must do and what I must say , what I liked and what I did n't like . |
| 7 | We should feel that what we do has value , whatever it is . |
| 8 | When I was young I co I do n't remember talking all the time about bloody health and what you should do and what you should n't do . |
| 9 | But modern prospectors should remember that what their forebears found , in the 1840s , was the accumulated silt of millions of years . |
| 10 | This ‘ instinctive revulsion from regulation ’ is the foundation of his libertarian heritage and it gives rise to a particular vision of how broadcasting should develop and what its purposes should be . |
| 11 | Amidst all the changes which took place in Eastern Europe during 1989 , the opening of the borders between East and West Germany on Nov. 9 , 1989 ( see p. 37025 ) was perhaps the most significant event to NATO members in that it confirmed that such changes , in particular the evolving relationship between the two Germanies , demanded an assessment of how NATO should respond and what its future role would be . |
| 12 | It was with the end in sight , the last evening , as we were sorting out which of her possessions she should take and which I should try to sell for her , that I started to cry ; and cried and cried and cried . |
| 13 | That must mean that whatever we are involved in is conditioned by one overall fact : whatever we do is either to the service or dis service of Christ . |
| 14 | By the end of June , you should realise that what you really want in your life now are love and security . |
| 15 | Blake felt it was like the muse which inspired him , and dictated from a hidden recess that he must write and what he had to write . |
| 16 | Ratting is second nature to a Jack Russell and through constant practice they learn the difference between a rabbit and vermin , knowing which they should kill and which they simply hold . |
| 17 | It explains how a woman may feel and what she and her partner can do about it ! |
| 18 | The political feasibility of dangling before Indians a prize at which they might gaze but which they would never grasp was assured , Irwin told Salisbury , by the fact that Indians in their heart of hearts knew they would always need British administrators to guide them . |
| 19 | It was quite another for Mary to spend her childhood and adolescence in the most powerful and civilized country in Europe , which was also Scotland 's traditional ally , so that she might assume that what she learned there was not the product of hostile bias . |
| 20 | ‘ If you think about it , you 'll see that what I say is true . |
| 21 | Although set up fairly soon after the coordinating committee , the Inservice Panel got off to rather a slow start , with its early meetings being characterised by fairly unstructured discussion of how it might function and what it might aim to achieve . |
| 22 | The terror , however , was not for herself or for the children but for Edward , who might realise that what he was saying was true . |
| 23 | 8. ‘ … are the only organizations that have been able to do what they do at all , even though it might seem that what they do is not that difficult or mysterious a thing ’ . |
| 24 | I 'll bide my time until I 'm in the ring and then I 'll prove that what I 've studied and believe in is right . |
| 25 | As for reporting to Daddy , you go right ahead , though you might find that what he has to say is n't much to your liking . ’ |
| 26 | cancers I think you 'll find that what they 're doing with them ar a lot of those cancers will be cured . |
| 27 | Yeah I mean what you actually well you 'll find that what you repay erm you know that the benefits you receive in your pension lump sum will far outweigh the cost of repaying those contributions . |
| 28 | Secondly , and far more important , the main factor in most men 's standard of living was not what they could earn but what they could produce , and here conditions were dominated not by economic relationships with other men but by something far more basic , the annual and unpredictable variations in the weather and the effects which this would have on the harvest . |
| 29 | Changing from being employed to being self-employed , it 's , it 's a big change that is you and er , and er the union the union helped me and er told me what I could do and what I could n't do and all that sort of thing . |
| 30 | It would seem that she and Johnny were to be allowed no souvenirs smuggled from that other world ; that place which their lives could touch but which they could not see . |