Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pron] might [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , in practice at present , there are certainly intermediate flows of which one might give a detailed description for one purpose and a statistical one for another . |
| 2 | In a strategy pioneered by the affluent-worker study in Luton , which one might call the optimal-case approach , a site was chosen for the research which was not representative , nor claimed to be , but was particularly germane to the topic of the investigation . |
| 3 | Brancusi was almost a peasant when he arrived in Paris but he looked behind appearances at a more profound reality , which one might call the eternal reality in things . |
| 4 | The next possible commemorative year on which we might hang an Open Day and other celebrations would appear to be 1999 , marking 300 years since the Royal Charter was granted to James Sutherland ( 12 January , 1699 ) . |
| 5 | On the one hand , there has been the approach which emphasizes the complexity of financial accounting and thus produces many user groups ( which we might call the differential approach ) ; alternatively , there has been the approach which emphasizes the commonalities and produces few user groups ( which we might call the integral approach ) . |
| 6 | On the one hand , there has been the approach which emphasizes the complexity of financial accounting and thus produces many user groups ( which we might call the differential approach ) ; alternatively , there has been the approach which emphasizes the commonalities and produces few user groups ( which we might call the integral approach ) . |
| 7 | The great families of Rome had fortified towers or residences from which they might control the main routes in and out of the city . |
| 8 | Sometimes , another dealer tipped off a director as to the identities of miscreants , so as to curry favour for which he might reap a tangible reward like extra leads . |
| 9 | They had come , they said , to take Klein to lunch and to have a friendly discussion about a matter in which he might have a mutual interest . |
| 10 | What you might call a new one . ’ |
| 11 | In this case Dr Lusman did not do that and he took the sample by using his finger and a spatula , in what you might call a blind manner , and doing it by feeling . |
| 12 | First , what you might call a local bye-law ; a rule for this particular sort of book . |
| 13 | Russell was what you might call a social climber , inasmuch as he specialized in fitting out rock shelters for himself at various altitudes and if possible receiving his friends in them . |
| 14 | Who demonstrated what you might call a profound lack of interest . |
| 15 | They call themselves Rektum , and all signs suggest they enjoyed what you might call a safe passage . |
| 16 | Every now and again , we run up against what you might call a medieval . |
| 17 | Hardly what you might call an international banking centre . |
| 18 | Whereas we used to have what you might call an across-the-table relationship with our customers , now we can claim to be sitting on the same side of the table . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ So among what you might call the floating waiting population , there 's really only you . ’ |
| 20 | W. R. Parzynski and P. W. Zipse 's Introduction to Mathematical Analysis makes a better job than most , and it does it all in the right order , from special to general , what you might call the Reverse Bourbaki Gambit . |
| 21 | One of the things I 'm arguing really is what you might call the ultimate goodness , you see the thing goodness I just define as what goes up when you decide things are getting better and what goes down when things are getting worse . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | At the same time that personal computer technology is moving to centre stage for corporate applications , ‘ it is moving down into what you might call the intelligent television , where you can select any type of movie to see , or shop , or interact with information , ’ Gates said . |
| 24 | Finally , it is worth pointing out that , if my account of neoteny in man is correct , even the relatively ego-less citizen of the totalitarian state is the possessor of what we might term the neurophysiological substrate of the ego and the superego , which almost certainly comprises some of the most recently acquired elements of the human brain . |
| 25 | This is to recapitulate briefly what we might term the cultural , as opposed to the natural , history of the ego and the superego . |
| 26 | When a weak-form word is being contrasted with another word , e.g. : ‘ The letter 's from him , not to him ’ A similar case is what we might call a co-ordinated use of prepositions : ‘ I travel to and from London a lot ’ ‘ A work of and about literature ’ |
| 27 | Instead of what we might call a vertical analysis of society — one which builds upon a single kind of term — Althusser attributes a horizontal analysis to Marx . |
| 28 | You could say , that er , a Hobbesian view of human nature , that people are basically anti-social egoistic and er , aggressive , and that if left to themselves , life would be a war , war against all , is what we might call a pessimistic view of human nature . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The desire for improved services was centred among Congregationalists and Baptists while what we might call a larger search for dignity pertained to all the major denominations ; the Congregationalist , Dr George Barrett , told a 1900 meeting of the Free Church Council that ‘ Nonconformists have not yet enlisted the imagination as a handmaid to faith … |