Example sentences of "from what might " in BNC.
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| 1 | But its reluctant , even remote , tone is that of bureaucrats anxious to distance themselves from what might prove to be no more than fashionable scientific nonsense . |
| 2 | By July 1988 , however , the Uprising had reached a stage where he felt constrained to erect a constitutional ( and physical ) barrier to protect the East Bank of Jordan from what might happen . |
| 3 | This means that even in old age , we are able to recover at least partially from what might look like an incurable condition . |
| 4 | The common European grass snake and the American hog-nosed snake both employ a death-feigning act which , although elaborate , suffers from what might be aptly described as a fatal weakness . |
| 5 | But if we study the use of religious language in Wordsworth 's poems between 1798 and 1820 we see a gradual change from what might be meant metaphorically or ‘ poetically ’ ( Wordsworth said that he employed the pre-existence theme in the Immortality Ode ‘ as a Poet ’ ) towards language that is used literally and in an orthodox Christian sense . |
| 6 | Both families had been transformed from what might be called a lumpen peasantry into what Marx did call the lumpen proletariat . |
| 7 | The problem is to distinguish this type of rejection of psychoanalytic propositions — the result of the feelings aroused in people by uncomfortable material — from what might be called genuine objections of a kind which are reasoned and scientific . |
| 8 | In the latter cases , capital gains are being made from what might be termed special kinds of consumption property , only available to the rich . |
| 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 | There was no sound in the house , apart from what might have been the twittering of a caged bird coming from one of the closed doors on the ground floor . |
| 11 | Apart from what might constitute these culinary delights it has not gone unremarked that karate and bonsai are both parts of the culture of Japan . |
| 12 | They , Peter , if he found out where they were coming from what might he do ? |
| 13 | For as long as a Stephen , in his moments of strength , has been able to despise the arbiters of fortune and culture — the English and the Anglo Irish — as degenerate and unworthy inheritors of the language of Shakespeare , he has done so from somewhere , from a somewhere intimately known , and yet never entirely placed , from what might loosely be called Irishness . |