Example sentences of "[conj] what [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have to keep a proper balance or we will continue to see destruction in the countryside that we have seen in some areas where there is too much access and where what used to be a path has become as wide as the M1 . |
| 2 | You will have seen , with as much surprise as pleasure , a child of nine play the harpsichord like the great masters ; & what will have astonished you even more was to hear from trustworthy persons that he already played it in a superior manner three years ago ; to know that almost everything he plays is of his own composition ; to have found in all his pieces , and even in his improvisations , that character of force which is the stamp of genius , that variety which proclaims the fire of imagination & that charm which proves an assured taste ; and lastly , to have seen him perform the most difficult pieces with an ease and a facility that would be surprising even in a musician of thirty … . |
| 3 | While directors like Ken Russell and Nic Roeg carried on along their own idiosyncratic paths , and many of the directors who had flourished in the 1960s packed their bags for the trip to LA , there were no indications that those left behind had begun to face up to the economic realities of British film production , or what would have to be done to patch up the damage done to the craft of filmmaking , more particularly screenwriting , during the dead times of the 1950s and into the 1960s . |
| 4 | who or what would upset him ? |
| 5 | who or what would please him ? |
| 6 | She knew not what to expect , or what would happen next . |
| 7 | This task is made all the more necessary by the fact that opponents of absolute holism often find it strongly counter-intuitive , not to say absurd ; although they can grasp it at a very general level , they have difficulty in imagining either how it could be developed , or what would make it plausible . |
| 8 | No one can be sure that wiser decisions on these points would have prevented disaster , or what would have happened if the world had adopted any of the recent proposals for the use of force . |
| 9 | These processes range from ( a ) active illustration ( still relatively simple ) to ( b ) kinds of active reinvention and exploratory discovery and , crucially , ( c ) tension , contradiction or what would elsewhere be called dissent . |
| 10 | No , all I was curious to know was , er the commencement yes , but I mean w could you take it right up to the sort of the tapes until the day before the elections , or what would be the limit on that ? |
| 11 | He would then acknowledge that there was no law , and he would have no further concern for consistency with the past ; he would proceed to make new law by asking what law the present legislature would make or what the people want or what would be in the community 's best interests for the future . |
| 12 | I rang her the night before to say what visual aid do you want , do you want the overhead projector , or the video or what would you like |
| 13 | Perhaps we are more on our guard against the possibility of over-attachment by or to the adolescent or prepubertal child — or what may be seen as over-attachment . |
| 14 | There have been some dramatic prosecutions of commercial fraud , or what may be seen as criminal negligence . |
| 15 | 7.7.4 not to store or bring onto the Premises any article substance or liquid of a specifically combustible inflammable or explosive nature and to comply with the requirements and recommendations of the fire authority [ and the [ reasonable ] requirements of the Landlord ] as to fire precautions relating to the Premises Some tenants sell inflammable or what may be considered to be otherwise dangerous substances in the normal course of their business . |
| 16 | Herr Hocher 's long face split into a welcoming smile — or what might , charitably , have passed for one . |
| 17 | Since at heart these men were friendly to the Slav cause , Allied propaganda claimed that those who were posted to the east were always stationed in the most exposed positions , and at the slightest sign of wavering , or what might be termed ‘ treason ’ , were shot at from the rear . |
| 18 | The Fabians , then , were pioneers of social engineering or what might be termed ‘ evolutionary rationalism ’ . |
| 19 | Only 11 fathers , outside these sectors , were in heavy or what might be termed Semi-skilled or unskilled jobs : docker , coalminer , dust-man , general labourer , worker in rubber factory . |
| 20 | If by " meaning " is understood the objective content of linguistic utterances , or what might also be called their " objective thought-content " ( I shall discuss later the " historical " , performative aspects of such utterances ) , then , on the face of it at least , there seems to be nothing odd or improper in making identifying cross-references to meanings . |
| 21 | Although he maintains that every monad is distinguished from every other in virtue of the attributes it has , he nevertheless refuses to regard monads as mere agglomerations ' of attributes — or what might be more appropriately described as groups or " bundles " of qualities , without a " substratum " . |
| 22 | No , I have n't come down here with suggestions — that would be presumptuous — but with information , or what might be . |
| 23 | The single most influential neo-Marxist conceptual innovation for the analysis of development within the global system in general in the last few decades has been dependency theory , or what might be more accurately termed the dependency metatheory . |
| 24 | Could you say anything about your extension plans , I mean have they changed much , or what might they do in Tokyo ? |
| 25 | In subsequent work ( Neal 1981 , 21-34 ) an indication as to other possible aids to design has been given : these could have comprised some of the contents of a pattern book ( or what might , more accurately , be called a " manual " ) . |
| 26 | It was tiring work , leaving no time to think of what they had left behind , or what might lie ahead of them . |
| 27 | One of two things happen he 'll ei he 'll either say yeah , okay and give you the number or what might happen ? |
| 28 | Implicit agreements or what might be called self-imposed regulation ( as in the Building Society sector and the Stock Exchange in the past ) have tended to be eroded by competition or the need to compete . |
| 29 | It would clearly be very difficult to compare one disaster to another , in fact I 'm not even sure you could do it from a grammatical point of view , but if you were to point your finger somewhere in the world and say , ‘ We really ought to look at what 's happening here , or what might happen there , ’ could you think of one outstanding example ? |
| 30 | The perception of the problem will differ , depending on such things as the views and experiences of individuals , and their beliefs about what is or what ought to be . |