Example sentences of "about what might " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having taught English Literature for a long time in universities , on both sides of the Atlantic , and having spent some years pondering the questions raised in this book , I have come to some very tentative conclusions about what might be done ; they are not , I might add , of the kind I thought I would come to when I began working on it . |
| 2 | She has encouraged me to talk about what happened before I got to that stage , and to think about what might have led up to it . |
| 3 | I could not fail to speculate about what might have happened had Leslie remained in his original regiment . |
| 4 | If scientists had to think always about what might happen politically or socially because of their work , they 'd never get the work done . |
| 5 | And when we saw that we all started talking about what might be about to happen between these two . |
| 6 | The Labour party had an unsurprising and intuitive dislike of the Public School , but very few ideas about what might be done . |
| 7 | He would have liked to reduce speed but he was worried about what might be coming up behind him . |
| 8 | This wife stood by her afflicted husband and even expressed fears about what might happen if the firm were to remove him from his electronic friend : ‘ I know it sounds funny , but I 'm afraid that losing that computer may break his heart . ’ |
| 9 | Throughout the diet , try to keep an open mind about the outcome , and do not put any ideas into the child 's head about what might happen . |
| 10 | ‘ If anybody knows anything about what might have happened to her I would beg them to contact the police and tell them anything that might help . ’ |
| 11 | Do you hold any specific beliefs about what might be called beauty ? |
| 12 | Did n't you fantasize about what might have occurred if only you 'd been holding your breath at the time and a gun as well ? |
| 13 | The client is encouraged , and initially assisted , in developing and carrying out strategies for testing thoughts and beliefs about what might happen , e.g. ‘ If I ask my boss for a raise he 'll sack me or bite my head off . ’ , |
| 14 | One solution is to adopt the North American practice of providing patients with a comprehensive list of postoperative complications , but to most British doctors the prospect of burdening patients with ‘ unwanted ’ information about what might go wrong is deemed to be both unhelpful and unkind . |
| 15 | Not only would it be an obvious place to look but she was uneasy about what might be living underneath it . |
| 16 | Under-5s show stress by not eating or sleeping , while 5s to 11s may be reluctant to go to school because they are worried about what might happen while they are away . |
| 17 | Since the stone had left her hand she had scarcely thought about what might be happening in her father 's house . |
| 18 | He still felt extremely nervous about what might happen once they left the warren and had decided that the best way to avoid trouble would be to keep close to Hazel and do exactly what he said . |
| 19 | The hostile rocks cape in the midst and partly on top of which Arette-Pierre-Saint-Martin has been built also made me wonder whether skiers ever think about what might be underneath the snow they are skiing on . |
| 20 | But a man could go nuts sitting around wondering about what might happen . |
| 21 | Your students may have seen you play a sequence without sound then rewind for a second viewing , or pause to speculate about what might happen next . |
| 22 | As yet , no one was prepared to worry about what might happen in the distant future . |
| 23 | Perhaps he too felt anxious about what might happen if he did . |
| 24 | I believe that the Hon. Gentleman is talking about what might have been within the scope of new clause 6 had Mr. [ Mr. Deputy Speaker ] |
| 25 | I was keeping a glass of chablis company the other day with Jonathan Hayden and Fiona Brownlee from Pavilion Books , and we got talking about what might have happened in grown-up life to the heroes and heroines of the children 's books of our youth . |
| 26 | ‘ Perhaps he had a premonition about what might happen in London . |
| 27 | Asked about what might spoil a friendship , the breaking of a confidence and ( for boys ) ‘ stealing ’ another person 's girlfriend were considered particularly disloyal . |
| 28 | Oh , well , there was no point in speculating about what might be … |
| 29 | It would be unwise for the hon. and learned Gentleman or for anyone else to draw conclusions about what might have been the cause of this accident . |
| 30 | It was around this time there were grave doubts about what might be called the cost-effectiveness of the results achieved by Bomber Command . |