Example sentences of "[Wh det] [adj] [modal v] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What are the pharmaceutical companies , to which this should be of interest , doing about it ? |
| 2 | It is that , according to the Department of Employment figures , if the Labour party 's economic proposals for a minimum wage were put into effect it would cost some 2 million jobs , of which 50,000 would be in Northern Ireland , where we have a large number of women workers in the clothing , textile and garment industries . |
| 3 | The office will occupy an acre of land and will cut the number of parking spaces from 225 to 208 , of which 150 will be for public use and 58 for office workers . |
| 4 | Professor Hawkridge quotes , for example , a 1981 prediction that the number of installed microcomputers in the United States in 1984 will be 3 million of which 750000 will be in homes and 300 000 in educational institutions . |
| 5 | In answer to a parliamentary question on Aug. 5 the government said that it expected its NATO allies to withdraw around 133,000 troops over the next few years , of which 75,000 would be from the USA and 25,000 from the UK . |
| 6 | five GCE/GCSE passes at grade C or above ( including English Language and Mathematics ) , of which two must be at ‘ A ’ level of at least grade C. Equivalent qualifications will be considered . |
| 7 | I wonder what that would be like ? |
| 8 | Goodness knows what that would be like . |
| 9 | Ooh I wonder what that could be about ? |
| 10 | What , after all , does it mean to understand any culture , including one 's own , whatever that might be in ethnic , class , or any other terms ? |
| 11 | Yeah I worked out what this would be on the scale . |
| 12 | In an age when a symphony orchestra can appear in uniforms designed to advertise tobacco industry sponsors , conflating music and cigarettes into a single narcotic ( Guardian , 26 March 1984 : 13 ) ; when in Japan the record companies and the large industrial corporations co-operate to produce ‘ image-songs ’ which both advertise the corporations and play an important role in the hit parade ; ’ when a small selection of endlessly per mutated pop songs provides the background for almost every social activity ; when rhythm tracks on disco records can be behaviouristic ally planned and electronically produced , for maximum precision and control : one can not , at this time , avoid the feeling that if Orwell 's ‘ 1984 ’ ever arrives , it might well consist of a continuous Eurovision Song Contest ; that the ideal of the music industry would be to turn everything into muzak ( Philip Tagg 's entertaining account of the way muzak is used to ‘ programme ’ a Swedish office worker 's day gives an idea of what this would be like ( Tags 1984 ) ) . |
| 13 | Could you give me some idea of what these might be in the very early years perhaps ? |
| 14 | Could you give me some idea of what these might be in the very early years perhaps ? |