Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] what [pron] 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 | ‘ It 's no good thinking of what I might have done , Carrie . |
| 3 | I had felt all my life that lavatory and bedroom doors should be kept firmly shut , for fear of what they might reveal . |
| 4 | You could n't walk into his dressing-room five minutes after the curtain came down for fear of what you might find him doing . |
| 5 | Those who like Jenny in our case-study find themselves avoiding conflict at all costs , never facing up to issues , never expressing hurt or anger for fear of what it might release in others , need to do some work on this point . |
| 6 | You were right to break with him if you decided that you had made a mistake in accepting him , but oh , my dear , your uncle Orrin tells me that he dare not inform your father of the dreadful things Havvie is hinting about you for fear of what he might do to Havvie . |
| 7 | He could not have borne a mirror in the room with him now , for fear of what he might see ; in his heart he knew that it would be unrecognisable , as he failed to recognise the turmoil of his own feelings as having anything to do with the self he had always known . |
| 8 | Since many associates who were not blood relations often assumed the surname but between them could muster only a limited number of Christian names , confusion was avoided by the bestowal of what we might call a nickname , or what has been more justly described as a ‘ toname ’ . |
| 9 | He , too , is constrained in his interpretation by past similar experience , by interpreting in the light of what we might call the principle of analogy . |
| 10 | And yet I risked everything I had worked towards , all the hope of what I might do in a position of real power , for something that was obviously doomed to failure from the start . |
| 11 | Erm but not everybody 's quite so erm y'know not everybody gets on with everybody and um this kind of what you might call personal chemistry , to lapse for a moment into pharmacological determinism er maybe helps um maybe helps a bit . |
| 12 | Whereas in many cases this is only one dimension , albeit an important one , in the case of what we might call theoretical ideology it constitutes the main organizing principle . |
| 13 | In Southend , where 3,000 of the 50,000 adult males are reckoned to be Masons , it went into the case of what you might call Preferential Allocation of Council Property , and the battle of one councillor , Christopher Hudson , to break the grip of the men on the Square : ‘ We ca n't have a secret society operating within the framework of a democracy , ’ he said . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | But during our holiday visit we found exactly what we wanted , helped by the way Jonathan used his imagination about what we might like , even though we had n't specified it . ’ |
| 16 | I 'm quite keen to make a distinction between what you might call victimless crimes and crimes with victims , and that it is , it seems to me , we want to move away from an older pattern in which the university had its ideas of how people should behave and tried to make them conform to those ideas , towards a much more complaint activated system of response , so that it 's the kind of behaviour find objectionable that the authorities may get drawn into looking at . |
| 17 | Ironically enough , Rameau was among the most resourceful and imaginative composers of his time in his treatment of the orchestra , and the least in need of what we might call d'Indification . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Now because the government has a , plays a much bigger role in the economy the government will be in charge of what you might think of as industrial employment so er a lot of manufacturing , heavy industry er mining so on and so forth will be run as a national as a national industry , right and er wages in that nationalized industry will not be er set at market levels but will be set at , by some institutional mechanism that wo n't reflect demand and supply or reflect the rent seeking and rent server rent preserving behaviour of civil servants and government quangos er so on and so forth but you must bear in mind that the government sector will er the public and semi public sector in developing countries is vast in comparison to er to develop the countries and as a result wages set in er in the government sector er will erm will be the driving force for all industrial employment , so what with wages and industrial employment . |
| 20 | I had thought that there had been a really massive shift from what one might call the public sector into the private sector . |
| 21 | Until then they had treated him with a mixture of sympathy as a man caught up , by line of duty , in a political imbroglio , and suspicion at what he might do to make things worse . |
| 22 | This former schoolmaster and magistrate of 18 years has sat with 50 mediums 130 times to further his quest for knowledge about what we might call ‘ the other side ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ Yes , I suppose we had better get on , although I 'd much rather stay here and hear what you 've been doing , and I would be interested , in spite of what you might think . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ No , in spite of what you might think . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Her tone made it clear that if he wished , coffee was only the beginning of what they might have time for . |
| 27 | Minter would n't have paid you a penny for what you might have got out of me . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | An example of what you might study in obtaining a CAM diploma in PR for Commercial Organizations : |
| 30 | 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 . |