Example sentences of "to what [modal v] [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two knights were to be elected in each county court to appear before the Council ‘ with full power to assent for the community of the county as to what shall be ordained … concerning the forests ’ : all landowners who wished to claim the disafforestment of their lands and woods were to be there to substantiate their claim . |
| 2 | The problem for the media is that they find it very difficult to secure agreement across the political spectrum as to what would be accepted as impartially presented news . |
| 3 | It was their first lesson of many , that what was promised and paid for bore little relation to what would be received . |
| 4 | So far there is little here that would run counter to what would be considered orthodox Marxist views . |
| 5 | In education the party conformed more to what would be expected : 196 MPs had been to public schools ( 68 per cent of the party , twice the proportion of Liberals ) and eighty-six of these had been at Eton , almost a third of the party . |
| 6 | Er one , in regard to how they would operate it and secondly in regard to what would be expected of them , perhaps if they were attached to one of the older type machines and not the new machines you see . |
| 7 | The offences of organisation and participation are made subject to what might be seen as a kind of impossibility defence . |
| 8 | By the time Chiang fell upon his Chinese communist rivals and destroyed the Canton commune in the spring of 1927 , and thus terminated the League 's existence also , it has been estimated that something like 200 ‘ graduates ’ of Ho 's Canton course had returned to Vietnam and although many of them were arrested , it was a significant infusion to be added to what might be called the natural sources of discontent . |
| 9 | We come now to what might be called COSLA 's auntie problem . |
| 10 | This did not immediately lead to what might be defined as specific growth policies . |
| 11 | providing a pathway through the new thinking on cultural representation and gender developed by feminist artists , critics and writers over the last decade , the book is wideranging ; a useful introduction to what might be defined as the field of feminist cultural studies . |
| 12 | She describes herself as an ‘ old-fashioned ’ teacher in referring to what might be considered rather traditional teaching methods . |
| 13 | If the ‘ kinship ’ school may be located within the broader framework of a power or class analysis of society , the ‘ society-as-parent ’ supporters might be defined as belonging more to what might be termed a ‘ personal . |
| 14 | Whereas contemporary French Catholic institutions devoted only one-sixth of their curriculum to what might be termed science , Ramus allocated a half , praising the value of the mechanical arts . |
| 15 | Screening would have to be systematic and sensitive to what might be termed trouble indicators , of which the following provide some examples . |
| 16 | This Chapter ( Chapter 1 of Part XV ) deals with the settlement provisions which apply to what might be termed " income settlements " , ie covenants to pay annual amounts as opposed to " capital settlements " which are , broadly , settlements where capital sums are settled to be held on trust . |
| 17 | The ubiquitous expression of dependence and nurturance through the essentially mandatory giving and receiving of food does not , contrary to what might be expected , significantly constrain individual autonomy , at least in part because ‘ balanced ’ reciprocity ( Sahlins 1972 ) , involving the accounting of gifts and the expectation of equivalent return , is neither expected nor , in fact , permitted within the community . |
| 18 | Contrary to what might be expected , these do not want mollycoddling or softer treatment — in fact the reverse . |
| 19 | Yet with an attractive coupling of three Slavonic Dances winningly done , ending with the bestknown of all , the G minor Furiant , B83 ( Op. 46 ) No. 8 , it makes a valuable addition to what might be counted an over-long list . |
| 20 | Asset portfolio adjustments by these various groups can nowadays have a dominant effect on foreign exchange markets even if this appears to run contrary to what might be suggested by purchasing power parity relationships . |
| 21 | On the other hand , if I encounter a text which deals with an unfamiliar content area and does so in accordance. with communicative or rhetorical conventions which are new to me , then I obviously have to look much more closely at the language itself as a source of information as to what might be meant . |
| 22 | First , at this juncture a few points in regard to what might be meant by ‘ baroque ’ . |
| 23 | These arguments as to public reaction and " trouble " for the social worker apply only to what may be seen as more considerable reforms — the relaxation of strict sexual control in most residential institutions , a greater measure of sexual tolerance for the mentally handicapped , plainer recognition of the sexual needs and problems of earlier adolescence ( even pre-adolescence ) and so on . |
| 24 | ‘ A man is honoured in that country , ’ he continues , ‘ according to what may be seen of his actions , conduct and zeal , since no one in India knows anything of family or lineage . ’ |
| 25 | The art critic has no decisive voice in such controversies , though arguments can be made by analogy from existing art to what may be done . |
| 26 | The ideas were in effect harnessed to what may be called a theory of progressivism ; that is , a belief which embraced socialism as an ideal but which argued that , with the coming of democracy , socialism could be achieved through a process of gradual evolution from the old order to the new . |
| 27 | Next I proceed to what may be called conservative Christologies , Christologies in which the maleness of Christ is said to be of the very essence of Christology . |
| 28 | Because of the exemptions provided by the DTI and the SIB respectively , these restrictions in practice normally do not apply to what may be called in general terms business investors , typically persons who are ordinary business investors on the size test ( see page 36 above ) . |
| 29 | Rather there is an essential assumption of that basic face-to-face conversational context in which all humans acquire language , or as Lyons ( 1977a : 637-8 ) has put it rather more precisely : The grammaticalization and lexicalization of deixis is best understood in relation to what may be termed the canonical situation of utterance : this involves one-one , or one-many , signalling in the phonic medium along the vocal-auditory channel , with all the participants present in the same actual situation able to see one another and to perceive the associated non-vocal paralinguistic features of their utterances , and each assuming the role of sender and receiver in turn There is much in the structure of languages that can only be explained on the assumption that they have developed for communication in face-to-face interaction . |
| 30 | One is the formal , departmental structure ( see Figure 5.1 ) which recognizes the various specialisms within the business and leads to what may be thought of as an ‘ orthodox ’ , function-based management structure . |