Example sentences of "what [det] would [vb infin] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What that would show for the 1980s is that general insurance companies have added slightly to their stock of UK company securities , years of sales being just outweighed by years of purchases . |
| 2 | Rachel did n't reply , wondering suddenly , wildly , just what that would feel like — to be his girlfriend . |
| 3 | Perhaps he would care to tell the House the status of cancellation clauses , what the penalties would be and what that would mean for a future Government — Conservative or Labour — who decided to cancel . |
| 4 | Only no one knows what that would mean to me so they wo n't . |
| 5 | If I refuse he 'll set the police on to Garry , and think what that would do to Dana . ’ |
| 6 | So he settled for a secure telephone call , indifferent to what that would do to Maxim 's reputation among the Defence Staff at the embassy . |
| 7 | I think we even heard the cry , we want a minimum , we want a minimum wage , and everyone knows what that would do to the unemployment figures . |
| 8 | We could twe change it into twelfths yes and we could change the six into twelfths see what that would come to . |
| 9 | I asked the couple , during the following week , to write down separately what each would expect of marriage . |
| 10 | Not sure what this would do to my career . ’ |
| 11 | William inquired of his Jesuit teachers what this would mean for her eventual salvation . |
| 12 | It was the Europeans who cultivated fish that may have satisfied culinary requirements , but at the expense of what some would consider to be the aesthetic qualities of a ‘ typical ’ carp . |
| 13 | It may be unfortunate in the unity talks between the two opposing factions that Ebrahim Patel has thus far chosen to make what many would consider to be totally unrealistic demands for his 93-year-old SA Rugby Union . |
| 14 | I mean , th tha tha that 's interesting what you said , because you said how to avoid sexual diseases and to er avoid getting pregnant , are those the basics of sex education or or what more would put onto the list of things that you would teach ? |
| 15 | Apart from the general fitness between what most would see as a hostile and acerbic tale and a bitter and unlovely character , one is constantly reminded of the Reeve 's provincial origins by his own dialect speech — in particular the occasional use of the Scandinavian-derived first person pronoun ik , " I " , against Chaucer 's standard ich — and by the northern speech of his two clerks , Alayn and John of Strother ( perhaps modelled on two northern characters known to the English court ) , which was yet further removed from the London standard of Chaucer 's day . |