Example sentences of "[adj] [vb base] what [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We all know what can happen with the weather . |
| 2 | These losses all exceed what would be ‘ expected ’ from the areas ' detailed industrial structure ( which would have forecast the greatest rates of decline in Gwent , West Glamorgan and South Yorkshire ) , and the balances can be mapped as ‘ differential shifts ’ ( Figure 5.3B ) . |
| 3 | One one add what would |
| 4 | One add what would make ten |
| 5 | So two add what would make ten ? |
| 6 | Many of the canvases produced in the later part of 1906 constitute what might be called a ‘ crisis ’ point in Picasso 's art in that he was becoming increasingly obsessed with creating figures which were heavily volumetric , indeed often almost grotesquely bulky , but which simultaneously adhered or clung to the picture plane : the effect they produce could best be described by imagining a series of pneumatic models pushed up against heavy panes of glass and pumped up with air , so that they get larger and larger whilst simultaneously flattening up against the surface in front of them . |
| 7 | Any statement can be held true come what may , if we make drastic enough adjustments elsewhere in the system . |