Example sentences of "[Wh adv] it would [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The delay in issuing the album may well have been because of CBS 's anxiety about how it would go with Davis 's fusion fans .
2 They wept and clanked their chains and speculated on how it would feel to be eaten alive by the lions .
3 ‘ I know so much about it , from a working point of view , that is , that I ca n't really envisage how it would feel to be such a complete outsider , and yet privately so necessary to someone .
4 Then the strategy ‘ cooperate with your neighbour if he cooperates ; otherwise defect ’ would be an ESS , although I have some difficulty in seeing how it would evolve in the first place .
5 We will canvass views on how such a lottery should be run and controlled , and how it would fit within the pattern of charitable fund-raising in Britain .
6 It is rather less easy to see how it would lead to interference effects like those described in Chapter 4 .
7 She scowled at the broad back , with the T-shirt stretched taut over his muscles , and wondered how it would look with a sandwich hurled at it .
8 Warm things are said in the flush of the campaign but now that it 's over the first question the Tories should ask is how it would look to the country if a victorious party launched into a frontal assault on the BBC in the wake of its victory .
9 I do n't know how it would appeal to you but we thought it was funny .
10 Under the theory that light is made up of waves , it was not clear how it would respond to gravity .
11 I have read Labour 's document , which is entitled ’ Fair Rates ’ , in which the Labour party did not tackle the question of how it would deal with houses in multiple occupation or refer to salary levels .
12 I simply have no idea of how it would proceed in practice .
13 It is not yet clear exactly how it would expand in this area , but the steps it has already taken are illuminating .
14 Publicising the campaign in Glasgow , Mr Salmond said the campaign was intended ‘ to give people confidence in independence , to show how it would work for them and for Scotland , and to highlight the increasing level of discontent in the Union . ’
15 Theda 's eyes remained closed as the lumbering stagecoach rumbled its way from Newark , where she had caught it outside the Saracen 's Head , to Ashby-de-la-Zouch , where it would remain for the night before proceeding to Stafford .
16 A scullion ran across with a basket of fresh-cooked meat , taking it to one of the kitchens where it would hang to be cured , diced , salted and stored for the duration of the winter .
17 It was also transmitted south-westwards , into Egypt and along the coast of North Africa , where it would come into much more direct contact with the coalescing orthodoxy of Rome — and , despite Rome 's attempts to suppress it , exercise a more discernible influence on the evolution of Christianity in Western Europe .
18 However , he found it ‘ quite unfathomable ’ that they had ‘ chosen to live in the city of which Mike Harding quite sensibly said that if Britain broke wind that 's where it would come from . ’
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