Example sentences of "of [v-ing] what [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As my right hon. Friend prepares himself for the important meeting with President Yeltsin later this week in London , will he take the opportunity of seeing what can be done to deal with the massive threat which still exists from all the different independent Russian states ? |
| 2 | ‘ C ’ talks of seeing what can be salvaged , seeing if this man could still be turned , to follow the original score . |
| 3 | And one of the main advantages of these very compressed and arduous courses is that they give students approaching drama school entry an opportunity of seeing what will be required of them should they gain a place at drama school . |
| 4 | Instead of accepting what may appear to many to be a cynical bribe , Radnorshire must deliver a clear message that it will not sell its beautiful countryside or the quality of life of its residents for cash . |
| 5 | Her Libran philosophy of accepting what could n't be changed helped dry her tears . |
| 6 | That would shatter Germany 's present mood of economic optimism , already faltering as the difficulties of modernising what used to be East Germany grow clearer . |
| 7 | Robbe-Grillet 's insistence upon the essentially ludic dimension of all of his fiction ( and cinema ) was also a means of escaping what might be termed the prison-house of reflexivity ; it was not uncommon to find him distancing himself from Ricardou , even during the conference devoted to his work in 1975 , at which he claimed that even his supposedly ‘ theoretical ’ utterances over the years should be construed as attempts to maintain plurality and mobility . |
| 8 | Now it 's one thing to say well , you know , perhaps these are women who take more exception than other women would do , but there comes a point where you have to accept , I think , that there 's going to be a shift of perspective , that what women have customarily put up with is no longer what they wish to put up and that I think we ought to be , as it were , acknowledged to have the right or the scope to say we want things to change , and to define or to set out in a process of defining what should be sexual appropriate sexual behaviour in future . |
| 9 | Generally unschooled in the scientific method , judges have the legal duty of deciding what may or may not be presented to a jury . |
| 10 | To put the matter simply , they have the role of deciding what should be taught and when , with the specialist teacher as adviser giving guidance in the case of the visually handicapped pupils as to ‘ how ’ . |
| 11 | Instead of deciding what should be done and working out later if it can be afforded , the economists say the problem should tackled the other way round . |
| 12 | The acquisition of evidence and the presentation of evidence are linked , of course , in that it may be necessary to decide what should be presented before it is acquired although more usually it is a matter of presenting what can be acquired . |
| 13 | But the diagrams have the advantage of indicating what might be going on . |
| 14 | But I am more bothered by the implications of losing what may be the last chance of a home-grown refuge free from ongoing human interference . |
| 15 | Lily was on the point of having what might yet prove to be only the first stage of a thoracoplasty . |
| 16 | It would be startling if the mere fact that the defendant invoked a Community law defence , with sufficient substance ( but no more ) to escape rejection under the narrowly drawn principle of acte clair , should be capable of itself of excluding this useful jurisdiction , thus providing encouragement to those seeking to profit from law-breaking activities to adopt this method of prolonging what may prove to be a source of illicit profit . |
| 17 | As part of the process of clarifying what might be meant by brainwashing , I proposed a working definition of what it might mean to make a choice : |
| 18 | She had been surprised in the end that her daughter had agreed to come , she had been so arbitrary and changeable lately , and there had been no way of knowing what would please her , and what bring out her bitter scornful sneer . |
| 19 | I did not succeed in evading the notice of either of them as they had the advantage of knowing what would come next . |
| 20 | Evaluation , then , is the process of specifying what might be called the transfer value of ideas . |
| 21 | The advantages of such a mechanism are clear , it is possible to manipulate the model and thus understand the outside world in the sense of predicting what will happen without the potential costs of attempting to manipulate the real world and allowing things to happen , some of which might be considered to be unfortunate . |
| 22 | for it is difficult to see how the native could have any interest in the project of unveiling what can go on existing only if it remains veiled . |