Example sentences of "[vb past] what [modal v] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was more a psychological war of attrition than a physical threat , but it was on just such an occasion that we used what might be called our only " weapons " — a couple of pairs of plastic , luminous , blood-shot eyes which I had picked up in an American novelty store over Halloween . |
| 2 | Furthermore , he added what would be construed as an ultimatum but couched in the nicest possible terms . |
| 3 | Victoria De Grazia points out that the Italian fascists practised what might be described as ‘ selective totalitarianism ’ , which had little of the ‘ compulsive thoroughness ’ of Nazi Gleichschattung or synchronisation . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | As a result , Brunel could argue that killing off the quickie at the end of the decade was a mistake since it was possible to make ‘ really fine , unspectacular pictures ’ , and ‘ we were evolving a technique that showed what could be done when facing fearful odds . ’ |
| 6 | England were soon losing wickets when play began , four going down for 80 ; but then Lamb and Robin Smith , on debut , showed what could be done , and on the Friday morning posted a century partnership and looked good for plenty more . |
| 7 | Nigel Lawson showed what could be done with it . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It showed what could be achieved when the Treasury and the DHSS worked together . |
| 10 | This paper 's remarkable success in increasing sales between 1965 and 1969 not only showed what could be achieved by a powerful sales campaign ( which also brought in advertising at higher rates ) but also indicated that new purchasers of newspapers were not attracted to the party press , whose sales remained relatively stagnant . |
| 11 | Commenting on the changes , a BR spokeswoman said : ‘ Darlington was a forerunner of similar schemes throughout the country and showed what could be achieved when local authorities got together with British Rail . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It was Japan , the most energy-intensive country in the world , though , that showed what can be done . |
| 14 | He found trees full of beautiful moss roses , red , white and yellow , which showed what can be done to make the desert smile . " |
| 15 | He found trees full of beautiful moss roses , red , white and yellow , which showed what can be done to make the desert smile . " |
| 16 | Although ignoring man and control systems , taking many detailed facts from the period of physical geography before systems and beginning with two chapters which are very climatologically inspired , nevertheless the approach was refreshing in that it indicated what could be done to redress the imbalance detected by some physical geographers ( e.g. Brown , 1975 ) and to counter the increasingly fissiparist tendencies of the previous decades . |
| 17 | With very few exceptions the rule is that Parliament determines the maximum penalty and it is then for the courts , having heard the evidence , and seen the defendant in person , and heard what can be said in mitigation on his behalf , to decide upon the appropriate punishment in all the circumstances of the case . |
| 18 | Because of its dependence upon a single industry the rural village formed what might be called an ‘ occupational community , . |
| 19 | Er and these people er understood what could be got f er what little bits could be got out of the er various unemployment er acts , and er this knowledge , er plus the pressures and feelings that were able to be brought to bear , I 'm quite sure did er did benefit many er many people who who were unemployed . |
| 20 | He passed some coins over without counting , staring stupidly at the eyes that looked hurt with expected rejection , as if the man knew what would be said to put him off . |
| 21 | Paul and Malcolm Bream first spent time exploring possible sources of voluntary funding , and then saw what might be done with the local authority , but have now turned back to their original search for their own place . |
| 22 | She had to get out before he saw what must be written large on her face . |
| 23 | The Maronites now had to acknowledge that Lebanon possessed what would be described , exactly 40 years later , as an ‘ Arab identity ’ . |
| 24 | Indeed , not even Eratosthenes presented what could be considered a decent amount of information according to the standards of later times . |
| 25 | They applied what might be called a Morellian analysis , recording precisely the minute details of the ancient works , dividing statues into as many as 300 measurable parts , and entering the results into a database . |
| 26 | There had been pressure from the Tourist Board and Turkish TV crews to start the rafting trip from a particularly scenic and dramatic place and the guides misjudged what could be achieved with a novice crew . |
| 27 | Then when her house was due for demolition , she and Viola met , and Viola asked what should be done with the manuscripts , as she was thinking of selling the house . |
| 28 | Mills , for example , objected to the theory of a ruling class on the grounds that it was a ‘ badly loaded phrase ’ which presupposed what should be established empirically : that an economically dominant business class also controlled political decision-making . |
| 29 | When he made what may be argued were his next intellectually significant appearances , in 1923 at the Peasant International and in 1924 at the Fifth Congress of the Communist International , he had moved on from the French Communist Party and was now accepted in Russia as a revolutionary of considerable promise . |
| 30 | It is believed moreover to be the case that , as God , Jesus had what may be called a trans-historical knowledge . |