Example sentences of "[prep] what might [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is worth spending a moment considering what might seem a very technical matter , but it is one with important practical implications . |
| 2 | The transfer ratios differ in different applications of what might appear to be the same thing : V8 Ninety — 1.222:1 ; V8 One Ten — 1.410:1 and V8 Range Rover — 1.192:1 . |
| 3 | This aspect of the story has shocking implications as a representative of what might appear to be the random and unjust way by which salvation may be achieved — although St Peter always wins . |
| 4 | In men undergoing elective inguinal hernia repair a very detailed account of what might go wrong does not increase patient anxiety significantly and has the advantage of allowing patients a fully informed choice before they consent to surgery , thus reducing the potential for subsequent litigation . |
| 5 | Of course H is intended only as an easy illustration of what might go wrong — and go wrong it does in some of the important generalisations of Z that arise in Section 3.6 . |
| 6 | Tow days after this , I was going pot-holing and the problems of what might go wrong came up . |
| 7 | First , the conception of what might pass under the heading of ‘ learning ’ falls short of the possible process of intellectual development . |
| 8 | Meanwhile , potential creators of university-related science institutions in the UK could do worse than read Koppes 's book for some idea of what might await them . |
| 9 | He stared up at the starlit sky and shivered , not only from the biting cold but his own sombre fear of what might await him . |
| 10 | There was , moreover , a considerable amount of discretion in terms of what might count as ‘ violence ’ in a street robbery , and it seems likely that street robbers were more commonly charged with ‘ bag-snatching ’ which was regarded as a less serious offence than ‘ robbery with violence ’ . |
| 11 | The term is certainly helpful , conveying something of the psychological unsettling that can occur , but it does not capture the full extent of what might take place . |
| 12 | She turned away sharply , afraid of what might emerge from that vague hosting of blackness . |
| 13 | One way of putting this difference between the bounded nature of research and the comparatively unbounded nature of higher education is to say that , in research , the researcher starts off with a fairly hazy idea of what might emerge and ends with a precise formulation or conclusion , whereas in higher education , this is reversed . |
| 14 | The problem then becomes that when the puritan literature of the early seventeenth century is examined , the seeds of what might prove a flowering of science are difficult to find . |
| 15 | The issue of what might occur if the secession of a Member State were opposed by one or more of the others has never yet arisen . |
| 16 | There seems no reason , and the very business of raising such questions is itself part of a widespread collusive conjuring of absences and of whole worlds of what might have been . |
| 17 | Sir Arthur Evans bought the hill of ruins in 1900 and ‘ reconstructed ’ part of it according to his idea of what might have been . |
| 18 | Her mind kept flicking back to the python smile of the assassin , conjuring images of what might have been : death , blood , pain . |
| 19 | As it is , Manea ( pronounced Mainy ) remains a tiny hamlet in the Ouse washes , haunted by the ghost of what might have been . |
| 20 | Then , quickly she opened the door and went out and left them standing in a half circle , silent , no laughter on their faces now , just memories of what might have been if they had had a child like the little girl who used to run into them , and a daughter as she was now . |
| 21 | The year 1982 was , perhaps , a matter of what might have been . |
| 22 | The ceremony will be a bitter-sweet reminder of what might have been for Princess Margaret , forbidden from marrying her divorced sweetheart Peter Townsend . |
| 23 | Still the reality he so urgently wanted to communicate seemed to escape him , as if he was distracted by a voice whispering in his ear of what might have been , if only Kee had said yes . |
| 24 | But the awareness of what might have been had not some stalwart Cornishman come along the beach in the nick of time and the thought of the possible after-effects on both Celia and Liza haunted him . |
| 25 | As lavish as always with his hospitality Victor began dispensing free cognac and coffee in celebration of what might have been a prodigal son 's return , introducing his regulars to D'Arcy and he to them . |
| 26 | Still the sadness weighed heavily in her heart ; she wondered if those precious dreams of what might have been would ever leave her alone . |
| 27 | She took to drinking more than she should , and most nights she would cry herself to sleep , thinking of what might have been . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've never felt pressure like that , not even during the World Cup two years ago , because of what might have happened had we lost . |
| 29 | He accomplished much while director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art , but today is apparently content to sit out the art world harbouring bitter memories of what might have been . |
| 30 | Theorists who reflect about the ways in which things might have been different are bound to consider the question of what might have made events take another course . |