Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] what [pron] might [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | Her tone made it clear that if he wished , coffee was only the beginning of what they might have time for . |
| 33 | Minter would n't have paid you a penny for what you might have got out of me . |
| 34 | Fleming had called it a ferment , or enzyme , but that did not take matters very far , and gave no hint of what it might ferment , or of what substance it attacked in susceptible microbes . |
| 35 | An example of what you might study in obtaining a CAM diploma in PR for Commercial Organizations : |
| 36 | Now that it no longer seems so shocking that the town should have grown as it has , the newer half is in fact the more attractive , a fine example of what you might call the Thermal-Imperial style , imposing even in its incongruity , up here in the mountains , with its tall bourgeois hotels framed against the surrounding woods and crags . |
| 37 | I 'd be much more impressed by some positive suggestions of what we might do cos I th you know , months ago I was browbeaten outside church over a lot of similar issues and I said then , you know |
| 38 | Slightly towards one end , on the surface that was now uppermost on the table , rested a long , unevenly shaped darkish slab of what I might have thought was rough-faced granite . |
| 39 | I suppose while this is for me cos on the sponsorship issue is , would sponsorship have any impact in terms of what I might purchase so if I went to the Scottish Opera or the ballet or to the theatre and I bought a programme which I usually do and one of the things which is interesting about the evening that erm Alan and I spent last time at Scottish Council was that half the people attend Scottish Opera buy a programme and the programmes that I have sponsored always . |
| 40 | are things like erm in the area of what you might call citizenship , for example in the er European elections you could erm vote in another European country , you could actually stand for election in another European country . |
| 41 | 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 . |
| 42 | As part of the process of clarifying what might be meant by brainwashing , I proposed a working definition of what it might mean to make a choice : |
| 43 | In theoretical terms , too , it is hard to object because , of course , everybody has their own detailed definition of what it might contain . |
| 44 | He also believes that despite the crowd 's impatience with what they might think is play-acting , 95pc of players who get treatment on the field really do need it . |
| 45 | Where you might require specialist advice in what I might describe as ‘ stand alone ’ projects , which in themselves will generate a report , for example , the founder directors requiring a due diligence report on the target company or advice on establishing share option schemes or other suitable management incentives for the new company , I would expect , following a more detailed discussion to provide a separate terms of reference and fee estimate . |
| 46 | 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 . |
| 47 | For some suggestions on what it might do , if we can ever find it , see Johnson-Laird ( 1983 ) . |
| 48 | This is in direct contrast to what we might expect to follow according to the inductivist view , namely , that in order to establish the truth of some problematic observation statement we appeal to more secure observation statements , and perhaps laws derived inductively from them , but not to theory . |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | It must also be remembered that the working life of what we might regard as identical batteries tends to vary . |
| 51 | Fran forced herself to sound cool and friendly , to betray no hint of the fear twisting her heart at the thought of what she might discover . |
| 52 | The problem is that although the beliefs and feelings are " always concerned with matters at the heart and root of existence " — which does suggest or give opportunity for something which is not just subjective in interpretation — it tends to subsume the religious view of life under what we might call a humanist umbrella . |
| 53 | They seem to run the gamut from what you might call the ‘ tabloid television ’ of Top of the Pops and The Hit Man and Her , via the ‘ serious ’ ‘ quality ’ programmes like Rock Steady or Big World Café , to the more lefty ‘ alternative ’ programmes , of which The Tube was the prototype , like Channel 4 's Club X . |
| 54 | Paolo Guidi , president of Sprint International , said only that his company makes ‘ partnerships with people ’ , and Randall Tobias , chairman of AT&T International , said , ‘ I wo n't put constraints on what we might do . |
| 55 | 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 . |
| 56 | B : Say , what 're you doing [ implication ; " I 've got a suggestion about what we might do together " ] A : Well , we 're going out . |
| 57 | Nevertheless , if we are ever to make new discoveries about intonation , it will be as a result of studying what people actually say rather than inventing examples of what they might say . |
| 58 | The treatment techniques we describe are not a treatment programme as such : they are examples of what you might see the patient doing , with explanations of what the physiotherapist is trying to achieve , and how the patient should respond . |
| 59 | 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 . |
| 60 | We can study in these terms what an author has written against the background of what he might have written , had he failed to apply certain transformations , or chosen to apply others instead . |