Example sentences of "of what [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Pop is hysteria , a neurotic symptom of what may well be the last days of Western capitalism . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Jim Morrison died in Paris on July 7 , 1971 , of what may or may not have been an overdose . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm scared of what may happen when the children go back . |
| 8 | They had initiated an experimental effort to pioneer a form of what may best be called developmental social care . |
| 9 | Every good game defines the parameters of what may or may not be seen as a legitimate action . |
| 10 | The end of the dock when at the upper part of its inclined railway makes a practically water-tight joint with the standing work at the extremity of what may be termed the head bay or pond of which the dock then forms a continuation , there being also a gate or gates at the end of the bay to retain the water when the dock is absent . |
| 11 | The foot of the inclined way descends below the level of what may be termed the tail bay which is open at the end so that the dock and carriage run down into the water in order to bring the dock into alignment with the tail bay to allow of the vessel being hauled in or out of the dock . |
| 12 | The perfectionist is an anxious person , always afraid of what may go wrong . |
| 13 | The American biologist Garrett Hardin used it to summarize the message of what may be called ‘ sociobiology ’ or ‘ selfish genery ’ . |
| 14 | Many people grow up frightened of what may come after this life because their minds have been filled since childhood with ideas of hell and damnation , judgment and punishment . |
| 15 | Herbs are cast into the fire by the Lady of the Flowers in lieu of what may have been gory sacrifices by our sun-worshipping ancestors . |
| 16 | This section gives a detailed breakdown of what may be required in your daily work . |
| 17 | This existing history of ‘ miraculous ’ cures is just a hint of what may be available to the human mind struggling to find a way to greater self-help in coping with ill health and adversity , if only the vitally necessary ‘ faith ’ were more easily grasped and held on to . |
| 18 | I agree that this scheme is significant not only because of what may be achieved for good in the north-west , but because it can act as a model for planning for other areas and for other denominations . |
| 19 | I am frankly fearful of what may lie ahead for some of them . ’ |
| 20 | Through such aggregation , logical documents can be defined which are a synthesis of what may be many diverse physical documents . |
| 21 | It was these implications of the greater clarity introduced by the Geneva Protocols on the prohibition of indiscriminate weapons that led the British government , in addition to its general reservation excluding their applicability to nuclear weapons , to formulate further specific reservations in respect of what may constitute a military objective . |
| 22 | developing teachers ' skills in consultation and negotiation , on behalf of the pupil , with colleagues across departmental and managerial boundaries ; with parents as partners in their children 's learning ; and , where indicated , with members of other professions across institutional and professional boundaries ( cf DHSS guidelines 1988 , which , ironically , suggest more awareness of what may be achieved through the personal and social education aspects of the school curriculum than their DES counterparts with regard to the forthcoming national curriculum ) . |
| 23 | The effect of such imagery is to enrich or enlarge our concept of the male , or of what may truly be said to be ‘ masculine ’ . |
| 24 | Eliot certainly appreciated Hayward 's caustic wit and was himself , according to Hayward , " … a connoisseur of the ridiculous , an ironical commentator on human folly , a lover of allusive quotation ( particularly from the dicta of Sherlock Holmes and other eminent detectives ) , and a passionate observer of what may be called the Bouvard et Pécuchet way of life " . |
| 25 | Instead , the Report offers a discourse which both addresses and speaks on behalf of what may strictly be identified as " national intellectuals " . |
| 26 | It is my contention that a similar process is occurring for at least a significant part of the people of Tyneside today , although it is not affecting everyone in the same way and involves a complex process of what may be more apparent than real social differentiation . |
| 27 | The effect of what may be loosely described as ‘ contextual relevance ’ is likewise largely independent of grammatical control . |
| 28 | One of the results of the quantitative increase in material culture , providing new domains of representation all working in particular ways , is to complicate further the problem of what may be termed material ideology . |
| 29 | ‘ while the relation of a husband to his wife is not one of influence , and no presumption exists of undue influence , it has never been divested completely of what may be called equitable presumptions of an invalidating tendency . |
| 30 | Furthermore , even if there are net gains to shareholders it is not clear to what extent these result from increased efficiency , and hence represent net social gains , or are the product of what may be socially detrimental increases in market power . |