Example sentences of "in what [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He argues that : ‘ [ t ] o the small investor the idea that someone working in the City is using inside information to deal in what ought to be a uniformly informed market is quite repugnant . |
| 2 | These have been driven up , first , by a labour shortage , brought about by the ending of free immigration from China in 1980 , and now by increasing emigration from Hong Kong ; and , second , by the colony 's swift move up-market as manufacturers have relocated low-wage factories to southern China , leaving higher-paid jobs in Hong Kong , where their influence has pulled up wages in what would otherwise be poorly paid jobs . |
| 3 | The morning after the ark is put in Dagon 's temple , they discover the figure of their great god sprawled on the floor , his face to the ground , in what would have been readily seen as an attitude of worship . |
| 4 | Mickey Duff , Wharton 's manager , has already set the stage for a sell-out contest with Sheffield 's Fidel Castro ( Slug O'Toole ) , with both Castro 's British title and Wharton 's Commonwealth crown on the line in what would be one of the biggest fights in Yorkshire for many years . |
| 5 | Labour leader John Smith told Mr Major : ‘ I am sure that the whole House will share the feeling of sadness which you have expressed and will also share the hope that a greater degree of privacy might result for the Prince and Princess of Wales and their children in what would be a difficult time for any family . ’ |
| 6 | BES companies lasted for a minimum of five years , and shareholders were interested in what would happen at the end of this period . |
| 7 | If Bowe wins , and causes the latest split , Lewis would no doubt look to a domestic defence of the WBC title against Frank Bruno in what would obviously be his best financial option . |
| 8 | If the IRB has any qualms in answering these questions come April 1992 , they should think very carefully if South Africa is to be a serious contender in what would probably be the first genuine and major international event ever held in the country . |
| 9 | He was to give him a part which would take him into the West End a few months after leaving school , write a special role for him in what would be his first film , introduce him to his future wife and , through one of his sons , Brook , provide him with a lifelong younger ‘ brother ’ . |
| 10 | Because the animal is denied the natural iron in what would be its natural food it develops anaemia . |
| 11 | In the case of British Rail , for example , large subsidies have been provided to sustain a degree of social service in what would otherwise be uneconomic provisions . |
| 12 | Despite the fact that the Mexican government spends almost 25 per cent of its budget on education , a high proportion of the population is still relatively poor , semi-literate and ill-equipped to grasp even the fundamentals of the legal system , let alone to take it on in what would appear to be a very one-sided battle against the establishment and its administration . |
| 13 | I rather got the impression that they would take him er , er , continue interest in what would happen , I 've got the impression they have a representative here to give their view of how it was er |
| 14 | I had learnt German at Dartmouth where I had specialized in my last year in what would now be known as arts subjects : languages , English and history . |
| 15 | We are interested not in what might be the case ( of course anything is possible ) but in what would be the case , and the theory captures that interest by focusing only on the nearest relevant worlds . |
| 16 | He was living in what would traditionally be described as reduced circumstances . |
| 17 | The mouth is stretched in what would be a howl but for the fact that no air is passing . |
| 18 | Eventually , in what would then have been interpreted as a generous gesture on the part of the Poor Law authorities , the wife was freed in order to give her a second chance to build up a home . |
| 19 | The statement of the principle of subsidiarity in the Maastricht text is in what would be a new Article 3B of the EEC Treaty , to the effect that ‘ in areas which do not fall within its exclusive competence ’ the Community should take action only if and so far as the objectives of the proposed action can not be sufficiently achieved by the Member States and can , therefore , by reason of the scale or effects of the proposed action , be better achieved by the Community . |
| 20 | In carbonates preferential solution of some grain types ( e.g. Harris & kendall , 1986 ) occurs in what would otherwise appear to be a chemically homogeneous sediment . |
| 21 | His clerks worked next door in what would have been the library , and his family used the upper floors for their own apartments . |
| 22 | The PDVSA had announced in early December 1990 that it planned to invest $25,000 million between 1991 and 1996 in what would be its biggest development programme in order to raise oil production from just over 2,000,000 barrels per day ( bpd ) to 3,500,000 bpd by 1995 . |
| 23 | On July 24 dates were set for elections to a unicameral National Assembly , in what would be Lebanon 's first general election since 1972 . |
| 24 | In Dhondt 's view , Charles was the arch-squanderer of the fisc , his reign the critical period in the formation of territorial hereditary principalities in what would become France , for it was Charles who allowed the amassing of countships and once-royal estates by great regional magnates . |
| 25 | It would be replaced by three large district authorities , in what would be the biggest local government shake-up in the county 's history . |
| 26 | The World Cup triple jump bronze medallist has decided to run in the 100 metres at the Cleveland County Stadium on Saturday instead of going through the motions in what would have been a practice trial in his specialist event . |
| 27 | The books are written in what would seem to some today to be a slow and overly elaborate way — who after all uses words such as ‘ eleemosynary ’ ? — but he explores all of his characters thoroughly and gives lots of detail which , though not absolutely necessary and sometimes totally irrelevant , make the novel more personal and make the readers feel that they know the characters . |
| 28 | You 'll notice that instead of complaints signed in what would be technically the paragraph where they talk about service requests , because many of the requests we get from members of the public to provide a service are not necessarily complaints , but they do need our help . |
| 29 | This means that actors are expected to be able to control any regional or foreign accent which is natural to them , and deliver a text in what may best be called ‘ the classical style ’ . |
| 30 | This contains the experience and depth of the insider 's knowledge , which Holdaway ( 1979 ) recognizes is unlikely to become readily available , simply because ‘ there is a lack of impetus within contemporary sociology to spend lengthy periods of observation in what may be uncomfortable research situations [ with the police ] ’ . |