Example sentences of "what [modal v] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even though I may be in a minority , I feel quite strongly that the job of the record companies is to issue recordings of music at prices the music loving public can afford — not to enhance that price by paying for learned disquisitions seeking to explain what ought to need no explanation . |
| 2 | ‘ And what must help the players is that , all week , you do nothing but improve your technical skills and team pattern . |
| 3 | I 'm sorry to bother you with what must seem a difficulty of my own making , and enclose a S.A.E. for your reply . |
| 4 | What should make the situation even more galling for you , is the fact that a great deal of Scottish money has recently been invested in Scotland 's salmon streams in buying-off river nets and setting up fish hatcheries . |
| 5 | What should replace the poll tax — ; should the citizens not decide ? |
| 6 | That 's what 'll make the money . |
| 7 | What might inspire the people to new fervour would be the emergence , out of those absurd Kinnockian regions , of the Heptarchy , the ancient kingdoms of Wessex , Mercia , Northumbria and the rest . |
| 8 | Kuwaiti radio said that the Amir 's move had been designed " to ensure life in Kuwait against remnants of aggression " and to protect " people , honour and property against what might re-imperil the country " . |
| 9 | What might make a difference though in terms of posture ? |
| 10 | Who knew what might befall the car if left unattended ? |
| 11 | The problem then becomes that when the puritan literature of the early seventeenth century is examined , the seeds of what might prove a flowering of science are difficult to find . |
| 12 | The square brackets around Your Majesty in the English translation are presumably meant to alert the reader to the fact that the expression does not occur in the original , or that the translator is ‘ guessing ’ what might fill the subject slot in this case . |
| 13 | As we have said , later on in the chapter we shall consider what might determine the extent to which the observation that the price in your market is higher than you were originally expecting leads you to raise your expectation of what the average price level is . |
| 14 | What might cause the demand curve to shift ? |
| 15 | Asked about what might spoil a friendship , the breaking of a confidence and ( for boys ) ‘ stealing ’ another person 's girlfriend were considered particularly disloyal . |
| 16 | It is difficult to think what could make the Assemblée resemble a rubber stamp more than this . |
| 17 | Fittingly the local-born lad took the first spot kick which completed the first leg of what could see the city 's two clubs meet for the first time in the last four . |
| 18 | Civil servants are already examining what could follow the Alvey proposals . |
| 19 | One of the curiosities of the current debate is Wall Street 's reluctance to promote what could prove a multi-billion-dollar market , yielding fees to match . |
| 20 | What could entice an FE college principal to spend at least one day per week out of college between Easter and summer 1990 , at a time of year always administratively active and this year particularly critical with the preparation and prospect of delegation schemes and new College Councils ? |
| 21 | Shortly after he spoke , the first of what could become a flood of disgruntled clergy announced he was leaving the Church of England . |
| 22 | Whereas in other countries the old guard is pushed into oblivion , here it is put behind bars to prepare what could become the show trials of the 1990s . |
| 23 | what used to do the sprouts did n't I ? |
| 24 | This is what used to upset the farmer down the road |
| 25 | They begin by asking the question : in the period immediately following a defection , what would stop the firms getting together and , instead of actually carrying out the punishment , agreeing to reinstitute the collusive agreement ? |
| 26 | So that what we did was , first of all when you filled in your initial choice and then we got a a team choice and now perhaps , what would make a lot of sense is that if we have the first few er team answers one member of this team er , and then we 'll go through the others . |
| 27 | What would satisfy every Part of him — body and mind and will ? |
| 28 | None of that would be especially surprising , but what would give the Paris market added spice is Beregovoy 's enthusiasm for privatisation . |
| 29 | Pictures , still and moving , can inform and excite through the eye , making real and vivid what would take a tedium of words to describe ; overhead projectors provide a more efficient , more stimulating and admirably repeatable blackboard ; records and tapes enable words , music and sounds to be replayed at will ; and all can be combined into patterns and programmes that do more than simply reinforce and enliven a lesson given in the traditional style . |
| 30 | In 1946 a Committee at Stoke began planning a curriculum for what would become the University of Keele . |