Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [Wh det] you might [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Mr Davis , can you , would you like to sum up , and pick up these points , and before , I 'm going to bowl you a googly here , erm you have talked about fourteen hundred , as the size for the new settlement , erm , is that the top figure , or is that a figure to which you might aim by the year two thousand and six , but may have potential for growth beyond it . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | You can then apply a similar method to the second major piece of preparation before applying for a job : matching yourself to the job for which you might apply . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ No , in spite of what you might think . |
| 10 | Minter would n't have paid you a penny for what you might have got out of me . |
| 11 | An example of what you might study in obtaining a CAM diploma in PR for Commercial Organizations : |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I think you might find a situation quite clearly where you would find a child behaving in such a way in the classroom that it was being disruptive to himself , disruptive to teachers , disruptive to , to his classmates , and therefore the , the first move must be in a direction of rearranging that behaviour so that there could develop a situation in which you might do something about the learning difficulty . |
| 16 | Keeping him in quarantine is much wiser than producing a situation in which you might put Iran back in control of the Gulf , after eight years in which the whole of the outside world , including the Soviet Union and the US , built up this great military monster in Iraq , in order to prevent Iran from running the Gulf . |
| 17 | If you 're partial to drinking bottled water , the report on Which you might like to read some time . |
| 18 | Anyway , in the present context , it serves to characterize two different personal via : one achieves its clarities by way of charitas , the other goes about its business blind , achieves its clarities by way of what you might call confusio . |
| 19 | Yet another way in which you might choose to use the second half of your daily Fibre-Filler is to divide it into two portions and eat one of these half an hour before each of the two main meals of the day . |
| 20 | So , European traditions were a sort of net in which you might have got caught ? |
| 21 | Very rapidly Modigliani fell victim to what you might call ‘ the myth of bohemia ’ , from which he never emerged . |