Example sentences of "what [modal v] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For some time the technology required even for what may seem advanced types of activity at home could be fairly basic . |
| 2 | Moreover , his review took account of factors which were very different from those relevant to ‘ streamlining the planning machine ’ : the increasing pressure for public consultation and participation in the planning process , and the ‘ dissatisfaction on the part of applicants because they often do not understand why particular decisions have been made , or why it is necessary for what may seem small matters to be the concern of the planning machinery at all ’ . |
| 3 | What may suit one place wo n't suit another . |
| 4 | The strange factor is that what may evoke this process could be a rather wonderful event , perhaps linked to a relationship or career matter . |
| 5 | What must underpin these decisions ? |
| 6 | Since in the case of a solicitors ' partnership all parties to such agreements should be taken as being familiar with the legal principles governing covenants in restraint of trade as well as with the particular circumstances of the practice with which they have all been involved , it might be thought that the court would be unwilling to substitute its own ideas as to what might constitute reasonable protection for the business . |
| 7 | This is a very central issue for any sociology of the global system in so far as it makes the difference between a dismal chronicle of inevitability , which is absolutely not my intention , and an attempt to illuminate what is happening by a theory of what makes it happen and , by implication , what could make other things happen in other ways . |
| 8 | I ca n't imagine what would prompt this woman to dredge it all up if there was n't some truth in it . |
| 9 | What would guarantee such trouble is allowing the federal army to succeed in extinguishing an entire small nation state with the brutality with which it has already destroyed so much . |
| 10 | It is around this time that the demand for films began to increase substantially and producers built larger studios to produce pictures that , while longer than before , were still some way short of what would become established feature length . |
| 11 | Despite what would seem admirable objectives and a sound financial backing , SAM was short-lived . |
| 12 | What would seem bad chairmanship at a board meeting or a university senate was here a deliberate policy : people , The People , should have their say . |
| 13 | Yet when such annoyances are compounded by the strains of family living , what would cause one family annoyance might easily add up to long-term unhappiness in another family . |
| 14 | ‘ You are yourself the water of life ; what shall discover that water , save the tearful eye ? ’ |
| 15 | And what will undo these effects , she writes in the Postscript , is altered consciousness , and a process of ‘ human growth and tru |
| 16 | Well I would , I would just like to draw the distinction between value added and other considerations , and what will create high pay , and giving high value added per employee , and that 's really where we should be directing our efforts . |
| 17 | That is what will make us more competitive and what will create more jobs . |
| 18 | What will characterize growing maturity ? |
| 19 | If no such committee is formed , who or what will make those recommendations ? |
| 20 | That is what will ensure continuing success and prosperity for our employees , for our shareholders and of course for you , our retired staff . ’ |
| 21 | For after all it is a contingent matter what will produce certain feeling , in us . |
| 22 | As a particular form of rationality a human being , considered as a total personality , is above all an effort to think things out by having a firm conception of its own nature , as this exists in the physical world , and of what will assist this nature to keep in existence . |
| 23 | Doctors at the National Epilepsy centre at the Park hospital in Oxford carry out research into what can trigger epileptic fits . |
| 24 | What can follow such declarations , such experiences ? |