Example sentences of "[Wh det] [noun sg] [modal v] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hope the discussion has this value : it addresses the question of intervention to further social objectives within the system of commodity-producing enterprises and , rather than positing nationalisation as panacea ( a theme with a pronounced minority appeal ) , it identifies certain cases in which nationalisation could be argued as necessary to further social objectives as well as cases in which nationalisation might be of no obvious advantage . |
| 2 | A relaxing thought for investors is the fact that no matter which government will be in power no major economic changes are likely . |
| 3 | I am suggesting that within the one is the other — in some respects a Chinese Box would have provided a better diagram than a polarisation continuum , although it would have been difficult to decide which box should be on the outside . |
| 4 | In the view of the Director of the North East Wales Institute of Higher Education , there is an iron curtain separating public sector higher education in Wales from the University of Wales whose existence must be to the detriment of the young people of Wales . |
| 5 | More senior posts were employed as tools of patronage at a higher level , for they might be the object of the ambition of a substantial freeholder with his own political interest , whose support might be of value to the Administration directly . |
| 6 | Such a change would entail the creation of a clearing house , presumably in Brussels , whose job would be to reapportion VAT receipts to ensure that revenue is accrued as now in the country of consumption rather than production . |
| 7 | Jasminder predicts that British companies will soon be employing people whose job will be to ‘ hold the vision ’ for that business . |
| 8 | If an incident takes place in a local GP 's surgery , you should complain to the local Family Practitioner Committee , whose number will be in the Yellow Pages . |
| 9 | Labour will establish a separate Department of State for International Development , whose Minister will be in the Cabinet . |
| 10 | The closing declaration included joint commitments ( i ) to create an Andean Presidential Council whose task would be to further promote the political and economic integration of member countries ; ( ii ) to formulate a common position on future foreign debt negotiations to be presented to the forthcoming Latin American Economic System ( SELA ) ministerial meeting [ see p. 37018 for June 1989 meeting ] ; and ( iii ) to propose a permanent consultative system to press for the full implementation of the February 1990 Cartagena summit 's agreements and measures against illegal drug production and trafficking [ see pp. 37243-44 ] . |
| 11 | This year 's chairman of the Pimlico Connection , Giancarlo Marcheselli , was curious to know what teaching would be like , and thought it would be a way of doing something useful to complement the years as a student ‘ where everything you do is for yourself ’ . |
| 12 | Jonathan Gershuny , now a Professor at the University of Bath and previously a colleague of Chris Freeman at the Science Policy Research Unit at Sussex University , takes a particularly optimistic view of what work will be like in the future ( Gershuny 1978 ) . |
| 13 | I do n't suppose for one moment she has given a thought to what life might be like if she had to ‘ make do ’ married to someone who was n't too well off . |
| 14 | He had often been on duty at the hospital , and then Comfort and Julia would lie on long cushioned chairs on the terrace , breathing in the lemon scent of the immense magnolia that sprawled up the old red brick of the house and talking about him and about what life might be like when they all left Oxford . |
| 15 | And what life may be worth when … the honour is gone … |
| 16 | But , he pointed out , no one could possibly conceive what life would be like after the death of images . |
| 17 | The problems are ones of ethics , which in turn come down to public attitudes to what life would be like with a mentally handicapped child . |
| 18 | It 's all part of our great series of free contests to show what life would be like if you landed the jackpot . |
| 19 | We 've been showing you what life would be like if you landed the jackpot . |
| 20 | ( If the expression ‘ form of life ’ is found puzzling , think of what life would be like if we never asked people to do or not to do things , never apologised for doing or not doing things , and so on . ) |
| 21 | Talk over the way you feel with your husband ; imagine what life would be like with another child and think about the advantages and disadvantages . |
| 22 | Adrian Henri ponders on what life would be like without his loved one — how colourless , dull and ordinary it would seem . |
| 23 | This is what life should be like ; this is what I 'm designed for . |
| 24 | It 's touching at their core because it helps them to recognize and understand their own experience of oppression , or what life must be like for their own sister , brother , mother or a member of the youth club . |
| 25 | And in so doing a range of choices about what life could be at work — vision , if you will — have to be denied . |
| 26 | They will have failed to maintain an adequate level of expectation about what life can be as non-parents . |
| 27 | Until that outdated charade is swept away , Britain 's decline will continue , whatever government may be in power . |
| 28 | We 'd already come to know rapping via The Sugarhill Gang 's success a couple of years before , but this was a novel thing , a glimpse of what music would be like in the future . |
| 29 | No one knows what society would be like if everyone acted on the advice of those who openly advocate it . |
| 30 | Now that 's what actually happens , there 's a there 's a dialectical interaction between people 's ideas about what society should be like and the changes that are actually going on around them . |