Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] what [indef pn] might [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The contrast between what one might have expected if changes in line with public choice theory were being implemented and what has actually happened can be illustrated still more clearly by looking rather more closely at particular service areas . |
| 2 | Two were also Products of what one might call the orifice revolution , i.e. gaining entry to the inside of the body other than by cutting into it from the outside . |
| 3 | I would argue , however , that there is a difference between what one might consider to be reasonable use by passenger traffic during the day , and the disturbances that might arise from that , and the use of the line at night by heavy goods traffic . |
| 4 | I had thought that there had been a really massive shift from what one might call the public sector into the private sector . |
| 5 | One direction which interests me is the development of what one might call cognitive archaeology , if that is not too grandiose a term : using the material evidence from the past to allow us to begin to say something useful about the way peoples thought , the way they used communication systems , the way they used symbols . |
| 6 | By means of what one might call ‘ fancy tunings ’ , in which certain notes are reduplicated enharmonically ( e.g. E ♯ on the E string , and F ♭ on the F ) , glissandos other than ordinary major and minor scales can be obtained , provided every string is accounted for . |
| 7 | In those of the 1640S he follows , though with less psychological insight and power of characterization , the way pointed by Monteverdi away from the ceremonial princely opera toward what one might call dramatic solo opera for the larger public : drama expressed mostly in expressive recitative monologue and lively recitative dialogue , with the brief ‘ arias ’ usually left to the minor characters . |
| 8 | As we went away to the sounds of Mrs Otto 's profuse good-byes , I reflected on the nature of the relationship between her and Otto , almost the opposite to what one might have expected : the gallant captain going off to sea where his authority was absolute and his orders brooked no delay , and returning to a wife whom he clearly adored but where the roles were reversed . |
| 9 | But there 's more to these 26th November recordings than famous and soon-to-be-famous names : take such as Kogo , Now 's the Time , Warming up a Riff and Billie 's Bounce represent Parker at what one might consider his recently matured best . |
| 10 | The maximum diameter of this window , at the equator , is about 150° of longitude — so for the satellite to be able , say , to ‘ see ’ Singapore on the very western periphery of what one might call ‘ the economists ’ Pacific' — a definition we will consider m- a moment — its window must end in the east somewhere near the longitude of Mexico City . |
| 11 | To reiterate the point , the main concern of this discussion has been to locate certain strategic possibilities , as well as constraints , in relation to the currently dominant structures of capitalist property , or in other words to argue the mutability of the economic class relations of possession and separation from the conditions of production in what one might call a ‘ non-millenarian , manner . |