Example sentences of "[verb] what [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ state of war ’ declaration clouded what might otherwise have been a clear-cut case of American aggression and gave the White House the makings of a case under international law . |
| 2 | The recording has what might be called an honest directness — it is clear and bright , if a little too closely miked , but in both performance and recording I miss truly elegant characterisations of these particular scores . |
| 3 | Unlike his team mate , who has what would be a Rug Nightmare except that he 's Italian and so it 's not . |
| 4 | Just as ‘ balloon ’ rhymes with ‘ moon ’ , so we might say that ‘ some chairs ’ has what could be called a tonal rhyme with ‘ some ’ . |
| 5 | Bodrum also has what must be one of the most exciting discos around , the Halikarnas . |
| 6 | From Millthrop , the Dales Way crosses one of the craziest golf courses in the world , which has what must be an average gradient of one in four . |
| 7 | Generally this means explaining what must be done : ‘ You can have the video back on when you have picked up your toys ’ . |
| 8 | The opening ‘ The Basement ’ is most disturbing , Blood explaining what can happen when your parents go away for a few months and leave you with your crippled sister : ‘ It started out with spankings with the neighbour looking on/She paid her daughter 's boyfriend who would whip me all night long … ’ |
| 9 | The opening ‘ The Basement ’ is most disturbing , Blood explaining what can happen when your parents go away for a few months and leave you with your crippled sister : ‘ It started out with spankings with the neighbour looking on/She paid her daughter 's boyfriend who would whip me all night long … ’ |
| 10 | In its verdict , the court found that ‘ the content of Suh Kyung-won 's conversation with the North Korean leader Kim Il-sung does not appear to have contained what could be called top secrets vital to national security . ’ |
| 11 | Step 3 : Test the model resulting from step 2 for artificial constraints and any misstatements of logic and produce a new cost and time model representing what should have happened during the performance of the contract . |
| 12 | Secondly , they could further extend their provision of a mixture of courses , both academic and vocational , at non-advanced and advanced levels , thereby becoming what might more accurately be termed Colleges of Further and Higher Education . |
| 13 | We can describe what would happen in an elaboration of Cairns-Smith 's description of his hypo experiment . |
| 14 | Even assuming that the French public can be persuaded to accept what will in effect be the Deutschmark as their currency , and are willing to allow their economic policy to be decided by German domestic needs , will membership of this ‘ inner core ’ in fact be beneficial for Britain ? |
| 15 | At the very least , these models suggest what might have existed and how the few sites that have been detected may be interpreted . |
| 16 | In January it was decided to go on talking but let a ’ monitoring group ’ suggest what should be done with the results . |
| 17 | Thus , in the case of Parchment , the police committed what would have been a number of breaches of the rules had the accused been in the police station , but , simply because the supposed infractions had taken place before his arrival , the crown court held that nothing wrongful had occurred . |
| 18 | The two Libyan nationals accused by the US and UK of the Libya bombing are alleged to have committed what would amount to offences under the Montreal Convention . |
| 19 | It 's not that I wo n't be prepared to face such conditions , it 's just that I realise what could happen . |
| 20 | A man like Muhammad Ali not only symbolizes what can be done with talent and ability but shows that the ‘ man ’ and his system can be beat ( Glasgow , 1980 , p.78 ) . |
| 21 | So , for example , the paper by Benjamin Jowett ( 1817–93 ) ‘ On the Interpretation of Scripture ’ pointed out that it was not always easy to know what might be meant by ‘ proving a doctrine from Scripture ’ , and insisted that the Bible must be interpreted like any other piece of literature . |
| 22 | ‘ Gradually I got to know what would work , it caught the mood , the shadows held up and the grain was soft , it was like a pastel painting . |
| 23 | I 'd like to know what would happen then . ’ |
| 24 | And again and again , on my side , I wanted to know what would happen to us . |
| 25 | ‘ If this is what it 's like to be under your protection , I 'd bloody well like to know what would happen if I were n't ! ’ |
| 26 | You do n't need to see the film to know what 'll happen . |
| 27 | No censorship would take place beforehand , but it was made quite clear that on these issues the press was expected to censor itself , to know what ought not to be reported . |
| 28 | We need to investigate whether such moral perceptions are accurate , if only to know what should be done about them . |
| 29 | More positive thinking survived in one or two parts of the monolithic building in Queen Anne 's Gate , but the overall impression gained by outside observers was of a dispirited department in which no-one really seemed to know what could be done about crime in general and the prisons in particular . |
| 30 | You are entitled to know what will happen if you transgress again . |