Example sentences of "on what might " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both works end on a possible return , on what might look like a bleak diminuendo but is really an anxiety state . |
| 2 | Fidel Castro is no far-distant Arab , but rules an island only 90 miles from Key West , on what might have been home ground had politics gone slightly differently less than a century ago . |
| 3 | Leicester , scoring only once more despite concerted attacks , were left to ponder on what might have been . |
| 4 | However , just as Norman had got up and down from another bunker for his last round of 69 , so did Beck , firmly sinking a putt of six feet as the Australian looked on and reflected on what might have been . |
| 5 | Meanwhile conscious awareness is freed to survey the landscape , to plan a route , to talk with fellow cyclists , or to dream on what might have been or what once was . |
| 6 | In practice , the new narrative is based in large part on what might be described as a broader concept of realism , one which takes account of the complex , multifaceted nature of reality . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , observers on what might broadly be called the left were generally very much opposed to the creation of enterprise zones ( Anderson , 1980 ; Massey , 1982 ) . |
| 8 | The first one will focus on what might be called ‘ competition policy ’ . |
| 9 | We can only speculate on what might have been had there been a full-hearted commitment to PR and a working agreement with the Lib Dems . |
| 10 | The danger about it all is that Mains and his lieutenants , Peter Thorburn and Earle Kirton , have based their selection plans and playing philosophies on what might later be regarded as insecure grounds . |
| 11 | There 's no point in dwelling on what might have been . |
| 12 | Below , shattered team-mate Russell Garcia reflects on what might have been . |
| 13 | Bartlett 's recall may be elusive , while the popular Roland Lefebvre is left pondering sadly on what might have been if he had not suffered that pre-season arm injury in a misplaced prank involving Sussex 's Brad Donelan . |
| 14 | And in Dworkin it is evident in his views that ‘ government must be neutral on what might be called the question of the good life … [ and ] political decisions must be , so far as possible , independent of any particular conception of the good life , or of what gives value to life ’ . |
| 15 | Indeed , some would go further and criticize the liberal variant of normativism on the ground that that doctrine is based on what might be called ‘ the Rationalist Fallacy ’ in political thinking ; that human beings act on rational motives . |
| 16 | On the body of the car , on each side of the door and on what might be called the architrave , are two handles . |
| 17 | Professor Hoskins was right to reflect on what might have happened if parliamentary enclosure had taken place today . |
| 18 | They had inhibitions about concentrating on what might be called the Dickensian essentials ; a great deal of specified food and drink , presents wanted and unwanted , the gathering of friends and relations . |
| 19 | It then becomes possible to formulate generalizations on what might be described as the sociolinguistic typology of low-status versus relatively standardized , higher-status phonological systems . |
| 20 | He had stopped thinking lewd thoughts ; his mind was concentrated on what might be a perfect opportunity to obey Viktor Rakovsky 's order . |
| 21 | An integrated pool of shared first party information would overcome the data protection problems and eliminated reliance on what might be spurious data from third parties . |
| 22 | The French magazine Sport Premiere , recently speculated on what might have happened to Nava , had it continued — in particular an enhanced wrap for the leg . |
| 23 | Preoccupation : The family member 's life is haunted day and night by thoughts on what might be happening to the primary sufferer and what action might or might not be taken to help . |
| 24 | The medical qualifications which at first gave him distinction tended later to restrict his outlook on what might be achieved in the field of occupational health . |
| 25 | This time I want to concentrate on what might be called the postmodern mode of signification , or a postmodern ‘ semiotics ’ . |
| 26 | It was with Rohde that Nietzsche had intended to spend the forthcoming year in Paris on what might have amounted to a non-classical refresher course . |
| 27 | She might live to rue this impetuous decision , but at least she 'd never look back with regret on what might have been if only she 'd had the courage to dare . |
| 28 | ‘ To get back to Sir Conrad , sir , and taking as a working hypothesis that he was murdered by an insider , I would welcome your advice on what might have been the motive . ’ |
| 29 | The Committee was generally critical of the universities ' past role , and clearly hoped that the CNAA might be persuaded to take on what might prove to be a very substantial validating function . |
| 30 | And the character of those towns is also erm subject to pressure from development on what might be described as brown field sites and could adversely affect the character of those settlements themselves . |