Example sentences of "about what [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There may be charges for some or all of these services , depending on your income , but it is certainly worth asking about what may be available . |
| 2 | To contact the social services about what may be available . |
| 3 | In the continuous process thus engendered one sees how true theory stimulates ideas about what may be , in realms as yet unexplored . |
| 4 | So far I have written about what may be carried ‘ in the mind ’ of workers and managers and attempted to see the political implications of the relations that ensue . |
| 5 | Because we are more dependent and more vulnerable in later years , there has rightly been concern about what may be termed ‘ old age abuse ’ and the subject merits some detailed discussion here . |
| 6 | I think we should forget about what may have happened in the past and pray for a series which might well become a classic . |
| 7 | If we move from the material world of technology and physical experience to the metaphysical world of moral ideas and the imagination we find that there is enormous discrepancy about what may be considered abnormal in different circumstances , but attitudes to the abnormal are always ambivalent . |
| 8 | Questions about what may be termed the aesthetics of a text continue to be posed , even though the aesthetic is no longer tied to a text 's autonomous integrity . |
| 9 | We have seen the bloodcurdling letters that he has sent to electors about what may happen if Labour is returned . |
| 10 | There is widespread ignorance about what may be claimed . |
| 11 | As such , the operation was essentially different from planning which involved prior political judgements about what ought to be achieved . |
| 12 | The larger question , then , is not about what is , but about what ought to be . |
| 13 | But no transgression against Hume 's stricture is involved in pointing out that people 's views about what ought to be — their moral stance and outlook — may be directly related to certain distinctive features of their lives . |
| 14 | They were the North Riding Authority , er the East Riding Authority , the West Riding Authority , all of which converged on the on the city of York , and as you read through the files , er you will see that even then the D O E were trying to get erm those er those predecessor authorities in the late fifties , early sixties er to come to some view about what ought to be better for Greater York , so for many years the idea of Greater York ha has been current er in one guise or another . |
| 15 | On board the steamer the two of them were talking about what would happen to the title if Lord Woodleigh was to die before they had any children , and Lord Woodleigh said — Sven Hjerson 's ears heard it — although now you get the estate . |
| 16 | Right or wrong , the incident showed that people cared about what would happen to the Louvre . |
| 17 | He said yesterday : ‘ I 'm sure I had been making inquiries ( in 1945 ) about what would happen to people who we sent back . |
| 18 | There 's blood in your body , and I get to thinking about what would happen if your blood froze . |
| 19 | I think about what would happen if I did it … |
| 20 | There was also a debate about what would happen to the most dangerous substances in the Windscale cocktail , particularly plutonium . |
| 21 | Birdwatchers had always worried terribly about what would happen to Brownsea after the owner , Mrs Bonham-Christie , died . |
| 22 | Latin and Anglo-Saxon temperaments are at variance about what would constitute an acceptable noise level ; and young people do not seem to be so intolerant of noise as their elders . |
| 23 | Every few years , people in industrial circles murmur about what would happen if supplies were cut off , for political or commercial reasons . |
| 24 | That is about what would be expected if a short burst of neutrons with a range of energies had to travel a long distance ; the slower , less-energetic neutrons would lag behind those with more energy . |
| 25 | In other chambers men , lords and their retainers sat and gossiped about what would happen next . |
| 26 | If the intention , in the week before the election , was to scare people about what would happen if the Tories won again , it did n't work . |
| 27 | ‘ We always have a laugh about what would happen if these things went to court . |
| 28 | She was a child , he should have thought about what would happen when she went through the usual adolescent trials . |
| 29 | The University had filed for patents , believing that millions of dollars could accrue if test-tube fusion were commercially practical , and the patent lawyers were concerned about what would happen if other groups found out the results and duplicated them . |
| 30 | He did a very good job , but it made me think about what would be right for me when I died . ’ |