Example sentences of "to what [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two knights were to be elected in each county court to appear before the Council ‘ with full power to assent for the community of the county as to what shall be ordained … concerning the forests ’ : all landowners who wished to claim the disafforestment of their lands and woods were to be there to substantiate their claim . |
| 2 | But they , they are a little bit inclined to what shall we spend some money on next , are n't they ? |
| 3 | So it is that tomorrow , ITV will screen a profile of the man who spent the first eight years of his life in Abyssinia ( now Ethiopia ) and graduated to serious eccentricity via an English prep school ( where he was beaten ) , Eton ( where he learned to box ) and finally Oxford ( where he was a boxing blue and acquired the dramatically-bent nose which for six decades has lent drama to what would in any case have been a distinguished face ) . |
| 4 | They have been indoctrinated for nearly forty years with the belief that their right to this pension does not arise simply out of a public decision to pay it but is a right vested in the individual by virtue of certain payments made by him , and analogous to what would be his entitlement under a contract with an insurance company . |
| 5 | THE first Mormon migrants made the long trek west to what would become Utah in the 1840s to escape religious and political persecution . |
| 6 | But it is the most distinctive characteristic of an observant or well educated mind to bring unity to what would otherwise be a meaningless scatter of seemingly random and unrelated phenomena , and I bow to few for want of intellect . |
| 7 | The Danes , and the Swedes , were already perceived to pose a missionary problem in the ninth century ; their Christianization was one response to what would become known to historians as the Viking threat . |
| 8 | She was being looked after at home by her children and there was a great deal of anxiety being expressed by all the carers involved as to what would happen to the children . |
| 9 | Methodically , meticulously , he studied every aspect of Kylie 's talent and music before committing himself to what would have been one of the most ambitious projects even he had attempted . |
| 10 | It seems that the Volunteer Cavalry , and Cavalry exist to give tone to what would otherwise be a mere vulgar brawl , had already dispersed the rioters , after they had rioted along through Garscube and burned the Parish Records in Old Kilpatrick . |
| 11 | There will always be the question as to what would have happened if the last remedy had been the first prescription but in my experience that 's the sort of question homœopaths ask rather than patients ! |
| 12 | In the meantime the only guidance as to what would constitute an acceptable limit on Article 8(1) rights is the rather equivocal decision in the Klass case which concerned the operation of surveillance procedures in the German Federal Republic where legislation authorized telephone-tapping and other surveillance techniques if a number of conditions were satisfied . |
| 13 | Such a principle would not only add rational coherence to what would otherwise be a set of unrelated rules , but would also supply the reference point whereby novel dilemmas may be resolved . |
| 14 | Medical treatment which involves any touching of a patient is still analysed generally in law as lawful because the patient has consented to what would otherwise be an assault . |
| 15 | Discussions were held with consultants and agreements drawn up as to what would be the expected workload for the clinical team and what resources they may require to process that workload . |
| 16 | So I asked her advice as to what would look nice , |
| 17 | So far there is little here that would run counter to what would be considered orthodox Marxist views . |
| 18 | It is difficult to put these sums into context for there is no knowing what benefit has been achieved compared to what would have resulted from some other social expenditure . |
| 19 | She was weepy when her husband was first admitted to hospital , concerned as to how she would find him and worried as to what would happen if he came home . |
| 20 | It was their first lesson of many , that what was promised and paid for bore little relation to what would be received . |
| 21 | Craft-level courses are equivalent to what would have been apprenticeship level . |
| 22 | The problem for the media is that they find it very difficult to secure agreement across the political spectrum as to what would be accepted as impartially presented news . |
| 23 | At this point , planning provided little guidance to what would follow ; the difficulties of extemporizing new manoeuvres were enormous and helped to reinforce the prevailing view that the overriding aim must be an early victory obtained essentially by good initial deployment . |
| 24 | Thus the plaintiff would be obliged to show that he either bought/sold shares at an inflated/deflated price compared to what would have been the price , but for the defendant 's actions . |
| 25 | At seventeen he joined a travelling band of gypsies who taught him the finer skills of pickpocketing until an accident to his hand six years later put paid to what would have been a very lucrative career . |
| 26 | Where in the 1930s the mother was given solemn warnings as to what would happen if she disobeyed the rules , the mode now is to refer her , with continual reassurances however , to what might possibly result from some mistaken handlings : ‘ Here 's what happens once in a while when the needs of the child are n't recognized ’ ( Spock , 1946 , chapter on ‘ The Two Year Old ’ ) . |
| 27 | In any case although Acheson in his memoirs acknowledged the ‘ perceptive warning of an able colleague ’ and admitted that these fears were eventually borne out by events , at the time he decided nonetheless ‘ that having put our hand to the plough we would not look back ’ and added his own to what would be hundreds of similarly hopeful assessments . |
| 28 | You get used to seeing so many things , you become immune to what would normally be considered perversions . |
| 29 | In education the party conformed more to what would be expected : 196 MPs had been to public schools ( 68 per cent of the party , twice the proportion of Liberals ) and eighty-six of these had been at Eton , almost a third of the party . |
| 30 | … With regard to a firm or a company , it is impossible to lay down an exhaustive rule as to what would be a libel on them . |