Example sentences of "of what [modal v] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pop is hysteria , a neurotic symptom of what may well be the last days of Western capitalism . |
| 2 | They had initiated an experimental effort to pioneer a form of what may best be called developmental social care . |
| 3 | Instead , the Report offers a discourse which both addresses and speaks on behalf of what may strictly be identified as " national intellectuals " . |
| 4 | Having lain unnoticed for a number of years , Patinkin 's insights have recently been elaborated and refined in the works of Robert Clower and in the writings of what may loosely be called the French Keynesian School , the most prominent member of which is Edmond Malinvaud ( see Malinvaud , 1980 and 1985 ) . |
| 5 | The effect of such imagery is to enrich or enlarge our concept of the male , or of what may truly be said to be ‘ masculine ’ . |
| 6 | In the foregrounding model , stylistic value has a slightly different meaning from that which it has in the " stylistic variants " model : it refers to the special act of interpretation which we make in order to make sense of what would otherwise appear strange and unmotivated . |
| 7 | We saw evidence of what would later promise to be a riot of butterflies with entire bushes covered by baby caterpillars and chrysalises . |
| 8 | A concern to return to such primitive roots no doubt explains why in his draft synopsis he originally used the word ‘ Melocomic ’ of what would later become his ‘ Fragments of an Aristophanic Melodrama ’ . |
| 9 | More serious still were the questions raised by the emergence of what would later be termed ‘ higher criticism ’ . |
| 10 | At the same time , all forms of what would usually be considered popular music can in principle be disseminated by face-to-face methods ( for instance , in concerts ) rather than the mass media , and can be made available free , or even structured as collective participation , rather than sold as a commodity ; it is hard to believe that a few friends , jamming on ‘ Born in the USA ’ at a party , are not producing ‘ popular music ’ . |
| 11 | While we were waiting at about 10.30 p.m. to go on night shift , we were subjected to a certain amount of what would now be called ‘ sexual harassment ’ , which we learned to parry quite neatly ; but the arrangement did seem a little thoughtless on the part of the B.P. Transport Department . |
| 12 | Indeed it is well known that societies which were very poor , by all later standards , allotted very significant time , energy and resources to the production of what would now be distinguished as art-objects . |
| 13 | It would be wrong to claim that Darwinism had no impact on the study of what would now be called ecological relationships , but the impact was indirect . |
| 14 | He could also have taken into account , if he was aware of it , that the effect of requiring an undertaking in damages from the council would be to cause the collapse of the law enforcement process in this area of law ; and further that the enforcement of the law was not merely desirable as such in the public interest , but that small retailers could well suffer if large retailers such as Wickes were able to continue to trade with impunity during a significant period in contravention of what might well prove to be a perfectly valid law . |
| 15 | The accounts which local sign theorists have given of what might loosely be called the ‘ experience ’ of localisation have , in the main , been variations on three themes . |
| 16 | In terms of the question of what might usefully be compared , typologies are very important in comparative analysis . |
| 17 | There is a bitter twist of irony in these last lines which completely changes the complexion of what might before have been viewed as a sentimental poem . |
| 18 | Both writing and speech require context to make sense of what might formally be ambiguous . |
| 19 | Throughout her long seduction in city streets , Clarissa 's mind returns continually to her Dairy House , both as an image of what might still be , but also of what was — her virginal nature . |
| 20 | One of the very first of them was Rossini 's Elisabetta Regina d'Inghilterra , which revolves around a real enough subject : the execution of what might now be called political prisoners . |
| 21 | He landed in a heap of what might once have been straw . |
| 22 | While it lasts , of course , it 's both ecstasy and agony : totally obsessive — every waking moment — and some dreaming ones — full of him and her ; delightful fantasies of what might perhaps be the actual realisation of some of those fantasies . |
| 23 | It was dispiriting to live with such an example of what might conceivably happen to us . |
| 24 | The words ‘ obligation ’ and ‘ right ’ provide no analysis of what might actually occur within the relationships between the parties and between the parties and non-parties , or of the chain of action and response that is likely to unwind from the conclusion and subsequent performance of any treaty . |
| 25 | It is unfortunate that the CACs were seen as a political football and they provide an interesting indication of what might possibly happen were all legal services to be funded from local or central government . |
| 26 | Standard hierarchical models , however , allow too little interaction between the knowledge sources : within a strictly hierarchical system , one can not interleave the processes associated with each different level of knowledge , and hence one can not allow the very early filtering out by higher-level components of what might only be partial analyses at lower levels . |
| 27 | I am grateful for the opportunity to make a brief contribution to the early stages of what will probably be the longest general election campaign in modern times . |
| 28 | Daily newspapers are now becoming popular , providing the first phase of what will later become known as the mass media . |
| 29 | That is both a misreading of what European Union implies , even if the Maastricht treaties go forward ; and , because Maastricht is unravelling , it is a misreading of what will now happen . |
| 30 | To be meaningful the vision must be a detailed one , a vision of what will actually be happening in his area at 9.00 a.m. on Monday morning in two years ' time to achieve success . |