Example sentences of "whatever [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You are , or pretend to be , indifferent to whatever may happen to your reputation . |
| 2 | Whatever may be the case in Russia , we in the degenerate West can switch off the radio or television , or not buy a newspaper , or not read such parts of it as we do not wish to . |
| 3 | The old remember why the revolution was started and many still hold the original ideals dear , whatever may have happened in between . |
| 4 | Whatever may have been the problems of making the cut from Leicester to Debdale , those of the Grand Union were formidable . |
| 5 | And whatever may have been socially expected of them , some grandfathers evidently helped in a similar way . |
| 6 | We can say , however , that whatever may be true of acquired distinctiveness , the reality of acquired equivalence must be accepted . |
| 7 | Whatever may be said about his lordship these days — and the great majority of it is , as I say , utter nonsense — I can declare that he was a truly good man at heart , a gentleman through and through , and one I am today proud to have given my best years of service to . |
| 8 | My own belief , for which I shall attempt to argue , is that , whatever may become of the GCSE ( and its future seems very speculative ) , A levels should gradually be made redundant . |
| 9 | Any individual is entitled to follow any faith he chooses — or even none at all — but this should be done sincerely and not simply as some sort of ‘ insurance policy ’ against whatever may arise in the future . |
| 10 | If you seek to see them with loving eyes , you will experience their beauty and be aware of their good points while making allowances for whatever may be lacking . |
| 11 | Whatever may have been the justification for the title of ‘ city ’ in the past such honour is now only conferred by Royal Charter . |
| 12 | Whatever may happen in the future , it is clear from the Lincolnshire experience that the introduction of Local Management of Schools has provided support staff with an unprecedented opportunity to define and evaluate their contribution to the effectiveness of the school , with a consequent increase in job satisfaction and self-esteem . |
| 13 | Whatever may be the instigating factor in a piece of research , whether it be a random observation or a sudden thought in the library , there is a common form of procedure which can be used for the research . |
| 14 | Whatever may seem the case to a man chasing a bus , running involves little work for most vertebrates . |
| 15 | Whatever may have been the cause of that allegiance to the ‘ gods ’ of their beliefs , does not really matter , for the teachings of all of them contain items aide wisdom which are available to all humanity , and can be used to provide further units of ‘ goodness ’ for the minds of men to assign to the store which is the Created God . |
| 16 | Whatever may have been threatened or done , do not give in to the bully and do not keep whatever has happened to yourself . |
| 17 | Whatever may have been the cause , the whole thing was all too much for 18-year old Francis Burke , the youngest man on board : on 31 July he left the ship , thus reducing its crew to 11 men . |
| 18 | Whatever may have prompted Benjamin and Elizabeth to pay this visit to Walworth — a chance of staying with some of the Parkes family , perhaps ? — it was not to last long . |
| 19 | Whatever may be happening to the rest of the economy , litigation is booming and so , apparently , is fraud . |
| 20 | However it ought to be possible to bring the reasons for it out into the light , and by doing so to show that whatever may be said of Tolkien 's view of reality , it was neither escapist nor thoughtless . |
| 21 | Whatever may be the degree of transference between generations , what is much more clearly established is the high proportion of attitudes and behaviour characteristics unconsciously learned by children and taken right into their adult experience . |
| 22 | For a number of reasons , therefore , it seems rather over-simplistic and legalistic merely to state baldly that , whatever may be the position on the illegality of use of nuclear weapons , their possession as such is not illegal ( Brownlie , 1984 ) . |
| 23 | Whatever may have been in the minds of right-wing conspirators and left-wing militants during the ‘ ominous spring ’ of 1936 , it was certainly not a prolonged civil war . |
| 24 | Whatever may be thought of this — I have softened it in translation — there can be no denying its intense urgency and power . |
| 25 | According to the founding minutes of 20 November 1804 , its principal design … . ’ should be to collect and preserve whatever may relate to the natural , civil or ecclesiastical History of the United States in general and this state in particular ’ . |
| 26 | Whatever may be the attitude of any individual teacher , if s/he does not receive adequate support from the school in implementing change , s/he is likely to give up , or decide that the innovation is not worth the extra time and energy required . |
| 27 | I think the most commonsense response to this objection is as follows : whatever may be the theoretical case about competing interpretations of low-level code in the machine , we need to remind ourselves that , if this machine is ‘ paying tax refunds ’ , as opposed to ‘ directing missiles ’ , then it is actually printing large rolls of cheques at its peripheral devices . |
| 28 | Whatever may be the differences in detail , the overall direction of change in behaviour , the trend in the civilising movement is everywhere the same . |
| 29 | Whatever may have prompted Caesar to carry out his expeditions , their partial success was accepted in Rome as a definite conquest . |
| 30 | Whatever may have happened , it was treated as an act of war and in these circumstances the perpetrators forfeited all rights . |