Example sentences of "what [noun] [modal v] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 2 What strategies can a nurse use to relieve a patient 's anxiety on admission to hospital ? |
| 2 | Stupid really , because what good can a bit of information like that ever do you ? |
| 3 | Under what circumstances might a butterfly spread be used ? |
| 4 | ‘ What difference could a day or two make ? ’ |
| 5 | What difference could a radiator make to an inner , more profound temperature ? |
| 6 | On what basis will a teacher be appraised ? |
| 7 | Before turning to the work of Sayre , Dennett and Sloman , I should at least mention one major question that has been left unasked in this paper , and intentionally so : namely , what properties would a machine have to have in order to be sufficient for us to deem it conscious ? |
| 8 | The question then arises , at what price should a Treasury bill be sold on a given day ? |
| 9 | What use would a comic be to him , he would n't be able to understand the words . |
| 10 | At what age will a child be capable of giving a valid consent ? |
| 11 | In what ways can a consonant change ? |
| 12 | ( ii ) In what ways can a supermarket encourage the customer to make impulse purchases ? |
| 13 | What gifts can a wife take in ? |
| 14 | In what sense can a curator responsibly sign the acquisition declaration knowing full well that there is no guarantee that a floppy disc or tape will be readable in a few years even if pampered with executive class conservation treatment — acid-free packing , humidity- and temperature-controlled environment , and low ambient light levels ? |
| 15 | This whole question of housework behaviour raises an interesting issue : in what sense can a housewife who has very high standards and extremely repetitive routines be considered ‘ pathologically ’ obsessed with housework ? |
| 16 | More fundamentally , one could ask whether the problem should be seen in terms of an interaction between nations at all , for in what sense can a nation be a ‘ player ’ ? |
| 17 | Even if it were , a more basic question would remain : up to what standards should a site be treated ? |
| 18 | In what way would a Burmese interpret the parable of the lost coin ? |
| 19 | Through what mechanisms will a rise in the unemployment rate have only an evanescent impact on the rate of inflation ? |
| 20 | To what extent can a child challenge adults ? |
| 21 | But on what grounds will a teacher identify a pupil as F , and put him in for the F exam ? |