Example sentences of "[prep] what [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Possibly , after what might be described as puritanical streaks through the 1980s , and after the theorising of desire and the occasional turning of the body into a no-go area , there is a need to explore pleasure — in the artist , the artwork and the audience ; the pleasure in that three-way encounter . |
| 2 | Then the young woman laughed merrily , her voice strengthening after what must have been years of silence , and the whole strange cellar rang with that laughter , and the glass fragments tinkled like broken bells . |
| 3 | I suspect you were disguised as a personable young man , a merry companion for the Gascons , after what must have been a long and gruelling journey . |
| 4 | Fourteen of these patients are well , a mean of 9.4 years ( range 3–12 ) after what should have been their programme entry date . |
| 5 | Ultimately , he dashed out of bed and caught a cab to the theatre — where he arrived thirty minutes after what should have been curtain time , to see his erstwhile audience walking away , dejected looks on most of the faces . |
| 6 | The two meanings are ( i ) ‘ the astronaut entered the atmosphere for ( at least ) the second time ’ and ( ii ) ‘ the astronaut returned to the atmosphere ( after what could have been his/her first trip into space ) ’ . |
| 7 | After what could only be described as a very spirited fight a small but brilliantly coloured koi of about 7lb came to the net and I remember looking at it with disbelief that such a small fish could have pulled so hard . |
| 8 | On the same day , the eighteenth of October , Mr came back and spoke to Miss about this telephone call and he rang Peter in the afternoon of that Friday and he asked again if it was possible to withdraw because of the landlord 's failure to consent to the er assignment and again er after what will er be described as a fairly easy discussion between the plaintiff and er Mr , er he was told very clearly that it was not possible for him to withdraw , contracts had been exchanged and he was advised that what the landlords er failure to consent did was in fact er provide Mr with more breathing space in order to obtain proper funding and re-arrange his finances er , that again is denied . |
| 9 | It was quite coincidental that June , by her search for a new life in California , drew him towards what would be the hub of the rest of his life and it was touch and go whether he stayed or went back to Neptune . |
| 10 | The rotation system would enable a positive , free and unhindered development of the role so that others may share in and contribute towards what would become a valuable resource for the use and benefit of all concerned . |
| 11 | He represents , perhaps , the abstraction with which the fashionable intelligentsia of the capitalist West can contemplate warfare , towards what may be the end of almost half a century of unprecedented peace in their part of the world . |
| 12 | This complexity is ignored by many of the approaches to ideology which have in common a tendency towards what may be termed ‘ objectivism ’ , a term which emphasizes a general antipathy towards a subject- or agency-centered perspective . |
| 13 | This chapter is therefore structured to show how systems thinking was incorporated into physical geography , to outline the way in which systems approaches have been utilized in other disciplines , and then to sketch the position of the several branches of physical geography in the early 1980s as a vehicle for proceeding towards what may be an emerging focus for a unified approach to the system as applied to physical environment at the scale traditionally employed by the physical geographer . |
| 14 | The grass sloped gently away from the college towards what must be the bank of the stream he had mentioned earlier . |
| 15 | It is worth spending a moment considering what might seem a very technical matter , but it is one with important practical implications . |
| 16 | And in a way this interferes with acting in advance of the disaster , or indeed acting perhaps not immediately , but spending a little time considering what might be the priority needs and then going in with it . |
| 17 | In Figure 6.8 , the discrepancy between NAIRU and U F measures the extent to which exogenous cost-push factors influence an inflationary process at levels of activity which are well below what may be reasonably considered to correspond to full employment . |
| 18 | Write below what would be more specific ‘ I 'm always stuck at home ’ ( you want to socialize ) . |
| 19 | The benefit currently paid is below what would have been the level of state sickness benefit . |
| 20 | The five-year-old writes below what might be transliterated as : |
| 21 | The Court did not however think that it fell so far below what might properly be imposed by way of sentence so as to justify the Court in interfering so as to increase the sentence . |
| 22 | This is well below what can be obtained from building societies . |
| 23 | Rates of interest offered to investors by building societies are coming down and in some cases are now below what can be obtained elsewhere . |
| 24 | Then Harry discovers that happiness does not consist ‘ in getting what one wanted , or in getting rid of what ca n't be got rid of , but in a different vision . ’ |
| 25 | Even if this is only one of possible readings , these stanzas and the poem as a whole surely represent an extraordinarily searching and painful exploration of what may be involved , for people of today , in the Virgilian pietas . |
| 26 | Pop is hysteria , a neurotic symptom of what may well be the last days of Western capitalism . |
| 27 | As for the first , it should be remembered that for an Epicurean the worst pain is the groundless fear of what may happen after death , and that excessive unnatural desires are painful too . |
| 28 | Jim Morrison died in Paris on July 7 , 1971 , of what may or may not have been an overdose . |
| 29 | Lady Antonia 's biography is the most substantial example of what may be regarded as the new and sober school of historians of Mary Queen of Scots . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm scared of what may happen when the children go back . |