Example sentences of "[verb] [Wh det] [modal v] be do [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In January it was decided to go on talking but let a ’ monitoring group ’ suggest what should be done with the results . |
| 2 | A man like Muhammad Ali not only symbolizes what can be done with talent and ability but shows that the ‘ man ’ and his system can be beat ( Glasgow , 1980 , p.78 ) . |
| 3 | We need to investigate whether such moral perceptions are accurate , if only to know what should be done about them . |
| 4 | More positive thinking survived in one or two parts of the monolithic building in Queen Anne 's Gate , but the overall impression gained by outside observers was of a dispirited department in which no-one really seemed to know what could be done about crime in general and the prisons in particular . |
| 5 | And so they had sent him North , not to win , of course , perhaps not even to poll a single vote , but to lay the Charter once again before the people , to let them know what could be done in a land where every man had his vote and the freedom to use it without intimidation , as he and he alone thought best . |
| 6 | They were told to wait in the hall for the time being , until it was decided what should be done with them . |
| 7 | But neither Paul Johnson nor the party says what should be done about it . |
| 8 | Imagine what might be done with the collected works of Alexander Hamilton when the Founding Fathers project eventually provides them on CD-ROM sometime in the not too distant future . |
| 9 | This is a key area where professional accountants have already begun to experiment — the 1991 environmental accounts of the Dutch company BSO/Origin , for instance , are reproduced and show what can be done with a bit of imagination and lateral thinking . |
| 10 | If the cavalry were still , in every sense , the army 's natural leaders , the victories of the Flemish burgher forces and militia over French knights at Courtrai in July 1302 , and that of the mountaineers of Schwyz and Uri over the formidable feudal array of knights and footmen belonging to Leopold of Austria at Morgarten in November 1315 had shown what could be done in conditions and terrain unsuited to the effective use of cavalry . |
| 11 | There was so much anger in her she could not see what might be done with it . |
| 12 | If members would like to write and suggest another way then I will see what can be done about it . |
| 13 | Will he see what can be done about that ? |
| 14 | Please would you investigate and see what can be done about the above . |
| 15 | Striped shirt tapped a gold pencil thoughtfully against his teeth and said that of course one had every respect for someone wishing to take such a stand and that in that case we must see what could be done with the portfolio as it was . |
| 16 | Either it might see what could be done within the area which Kant had left to it ; or it might ask whether there might not after all be rather more to be said about the way in which genuine knowledge of God is made possible . |
| 17 | George elected himself to go and see what could be done in the way of sample jars and presently returned with gifts from the Chinese cook in the dome car , in the shape of four rinsed-out plastic tomato-sauce bottles rescued from the rubbish bin . |
| 18 | I would not like to have to make a ruling over any Highsmith novel as to whether it is a crime novel or a suspense novel but , whichever it is , it shows what can be done at the frontiers of crime fiction . |
| 19 | This example shows what can be done by brainstorming . |
| 20 | ‘ But if the figures do stand up it is a remarkable achievement which shows what can be done by a hospital which decides to remain in the health service and not move into trust status . ’ |
| 21 | Nigel Lawson showed what could be done with it . |
| 22 | Pioneers such as Octavia Hill showed what could be done in altering and repairing sub-standard property and in new methods of housing management and rent collection . |
| 23 | Robert Cecil then showed what could be done by raising the profits of wardship from £14,700 in 1597/98 to £22,300 in 1601/02 . |
| 24 | He based the latter on his research into Victorian and Edwardian ‘ salon ’ music and showed what can be done by looking into such highways and byways of music when a particular period atmosphere is needed . |
| 25 | Many observed functions within the brain resemble what can be done with layers of perceptrons . |
| 26 | You know what can be done in a novel . |
| 27 | Museums like the Science Museum now built up collections of enormous value to the historian of science , for the provenance of the pieces is known , and we can only judge past science when we know what could be done with the tools available . |
| 28 | Before considering what can be done about colic , we need to look at the question of lactose and lactose intolerance . |
| 29 | Society of New York Hospital , held that ‘ every human being of adult years and sound mind has a right to determine what shall be done with his own body . ’ |
| 30 | The right to determine what shall be done with one 's own body is a fundamental right in our society . |