Example sentences of "[prep] what might " in BNC.
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| 31 | So when he claims to have had glimpses of absolute Truth , it may be reasonable to assume , not that he has caught a glimpse of some kind of hypostasized Ultimate or extra-mundane entity , but rather that through his participation in a particular form of life he is made aware of the need to live and act in accordance with certain religious and ethical criteria and is informed by the spirit of what might be called dharma ( law ) , or ta ( moral law ) , or tao ( way ) but which he prefers to call Truth ( Satya ) or God . |
| 32 | Zach was playing Bob Cratchit , Mr Fezziwig , the ghost of Christmas present and the Ghost of what might be . |
| 33 | The ceremony will be a bitter-sweet reminder of what might have been for Princess Margaret , forbidden from marrying her divorced sweetheart Peter Townsend . |
| 34 | Johnson commented : ‘ Obviously I hope the cup victory over Oldham will have helped my chances , but there 's no hint so far of what might be happening . ’ |
| 35 | Still the reality he so urgently wanted to communicate seemed to escape him , as if he was distracted by a voice whispering in his ear of what might have been , if only Kee had said yes . |
| 36 | Physical security breaches cover occurrences such as theft of equipment , and a number of what might be called ‘ acts of God ’ — lightning , flood or fire for instance . |
| 37 | The mood is one of what might be called creative compliance rather than avoidance as such . |
| 38 | Adam had a shirt on , the kind that buttons up , not a T-shirt , but now he began to take it off , having an idea of what might be about to happen . |
| 39 | Some pattern of what might be done needed to be worked out , and after a great deal of discussion and searching for funds , we transferred one of the men 's teacher training classes from Kemmendine to a Delta village . |
| 40 | But the awareness of what might have been had not some stalwart Cornishman come along the beach in the nick of time and the thought of the possible after-effects on both Celia and Liza haunted him . |
| 41 | As lavish as always with his hospitality Victor began dispensing free cognac and coffee in celebration of what might have been a prodigal son 's return , introducing his regulars to D'Arcy and he to them . |
| 42 | Still the sadness weighed heavily in her heart ; she wondered if those precious dreams of what might have been would ever leave her alone . |
| 43 | She took to drinking more than she should , and most nights she would cry herself to sleep , thinking of what might have been . |
| 44 | The mainland campaign had been just a foretaste of what might be coming , he said . |
| 45 | The mainland campaign had been just a foretaste of what might be coming in the next two months , said RUC Chief Constable Sir Hugh Annesley . |
| 46 | ‘ I 've never felt pressure like that , not even during the World Cup two years ago , because of what might have happened had we lost . |
| 47 | Aunt Lilian was aware — more than Aunt Kit was aware , anyway — of what might be thought a young girl 's natural pre-occupations , and it was she who took me to buy clothes and lipsticks , asking the sales girls ' advice with a gentle humility that touches me now , because she was not humble by nature and thought an interest in personal adornment the mark of a trivial mind . |
| 48 | This line of reasoning then raises the question of what might be regarded as an accurate description of the language of ordinary children at different ages . |
| 49 | Katrine was afraid of what might happen if she did n't pay up . |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | Lavish , decidedly non-specialist book on the development of what might be termed ‘ artist 's wallpaper ’ . |
| 52 | He accomplished much while director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art , but today is apparently content to sit out the art world harbouring bitter memories of what might have been . |
| 53 | In terms of the question of what might usefully be compared , typologies are very important in comparative analysis . |
| 54 | Unfortunately , Nagel gives no examples of what might be meant by ‘ structural ’ features of phenomenology . |
| 55 | Did not everyone , of necessity , overlook a large part of what might be termed , for want of a better word , the truth ? |
| 56 | Theorists who reflect about the ways in which things might have been different are bound to consider the question of what might have made events take another course . |
| 57 | If they are not involved , resourced and committed to the change , the reality of practice at the grass roots is likely to be a pale shadow of what might have been . |
| 58 | All these are part of what might be termed the ‘ quality of life ’ and the prisoners ' preoccupation with this vital but ill-defined subject is shared by the Governor , Graham Gregory-Smith . |
| 59 | The concerns of what might be called the research and development agencies in the NHS , such as the Nuffield Foundation and the Kings Fund , also provided a stimulus for change . |
| 60 | The 8100 is the more compelling indicator of what might happen to OS/2 2.0 : IBM spent so much money developing both the hardware and a completely new operating environment and set of compilers and utilities for the thing that it had to recoup its investment , come hell or high water , before it could be killed off , despite the fact that within a couple of years , it became clear that what users wanted as a distributed processor was the machine that eventually appeared — fatally too late — as the 9370 . |