Example sentences of "what [modal v] be [vb pp] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ A man is honoured in that country , ’ he continues , ‘ according to what may be seen of his actions , conduct and zeal , since no one in India knows anything of family or lineage . ’ |
| 2 | If this is how her work is to be read , then we are of course back with all the problems of the kairos approach : why has history been what it has been and given what history has been what may be said of God 's intention in relation to women ? |
| 3 | One is the formal , departmental structure ( see Figure 5.1 ) which recognizes the various specialisms within the business and leads to what may be thought of as an ‘ orthodox ’ , function-based management structure . |
| 4 | What should be made of all this ? |
| 5 | Perhaps the closest one can get to the truth lies in a remarkable admission made by the Chief of the Luftwaffe himself , General Hoeppner ; that , at Verdun , ‘ We did not exactly know what should be required of aviation . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ And what with the tunnel and the European Market , what 'll be left of England ? |
| 7 | With the advent of the Copernican system , the universe , according to Ray , had acquired a new elegance , more in keeping with what might be expected of a divine architect . |
| 8 | I felt proud and grown-up as I made my way down the road , concentrating my mind for what might be required of me . |
| 9 | Collectively , that does not leave many of us out ; and there can , of course , be few of us who have not at some time or another suffered from what might be thought of as a sexual problem albeit , perhaps , a trifling one . |
| 10 | As the Minority Report put it : ‘ The national Authority dealing with the able-bodied requires … what we might almost term a Human Sorting House , where each man 's faculties would be tested to see what could be made of him ; and a series of Training Establishments , to one or other of which the heterogeneous residuum of Unemployed would be assigned . ’ |
| 11 | In their understandable anxiety to save what could be saved of Greek life by cooperating with the Romans , Polybius and , we must add , Posidonius , had left unexplored the most solid substructures of the Roman-Italian complex . |
| 12 | Marx blinked at what could be seen of the office ceiling through the hanging cloud of his cigar smoke . |
| 13 | Jangling her keys more like a jailer than an attendant , she went to gaze out of a narrow window at what could be seen of the prosperous modern city , returning to peer over my shoulder and sniff . |
| 14 | Dark clouds now covered the sky and what could be seen of the harbour was a study in greys , slate blues and silver . |
| 15 | ‘ If this does n't let up we 'll need something dry to change into , ’ he said , squinting up at what could be seen of a lowering sky . |
| 16 | Accordingly , they concentrated on what could be spoken of — the life and experience and understanding of faith . |
| 17 | Because , for Aquinas , there was a limit to what could be known of God by reason alone , and a point where faith and revelation had to take over , physical knowledge was subordinate to metaphysical knowledge , and ultimately to faith . |
| 18 | He proposed to draw up what could be learned of the history of this area , and hoped that the Earl of Northumbria would ask his old men to do the same , when a meeting might be called to their mutual benefit . |
| 19 | If I had known what would be required of me this morning I would n't have gone to that birthday celebration last night . ’ |
| 20 | At Wester Hailes a small support group was set up in advance of the assessment to advise staff on what would be required of them . |
| 21 | I was looking forward to the chance to meet ‘ our ’ health visitor and find out what would be expected of me in the months leading up to the birth . |
| 22 | On the technical side , the outcome may well be some way from what would be expected of perfect contestability , even if the assumptions approximate to the conditions I have outlined . |
| 23 | Er one , in regard to how they would operate it and secondly in regard to what would be expected of them , perhaps if they were attached to one of the older type machines and not the new machines you see . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , the differences in fit from what would be expected of multifactorial inheritance are small and the pattern of familial aggregation indicative of a recessive influence ( with affected sibling pairs predominating over parent-offspring pairs ) could have occurred for other reasons , as discussed below . |
| 25 | What we mainly have in answer so far , about causes and causal circumstances , is that they stand in seven connections — the last three of which are also fundamental to what will be said of nomic correlates . |
| 26 | We had next to none when I was at drama school and young actors need to know more about what will be expected of them on film sets and television studios . |
| 27 | ‘ But we can not do anything until we know what will be expected of football clubs in the future in terms of all-seater grounds or any other issues . |
| 28 | The starting point will be that teachers should know what will be expected of them . |
| 29 | There is a degree of self-selection in this process when some recruits choose not to proceed as they become more familiar with what will be expected of them . |
| 30 | What will be expected of me ? |