Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] what might " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time Chiang fell upon his Chinese communist rivals and destroyed the Canton commune in the spring of 1927 , and thus terminated the League 's existence also , it has been estimated that something like 200 ‘ graduates ’ of Ho 's Canton course had returned to Vietnam and although many of them were arrested , it was a significant infusion to be added to what might be called the natural sources of discontent . |
| 2 | Their subordination to adults in general is minimized by what might almost be called an avoidance of them : from the age of five or six , they return home only to eat and sleep , and spend the rest of their time in unsupervised gangs . |
| 3 | The accounts which local sign theorists have given of what might loosely be called the ‘ experience ’ of localisation have , in the main , been variations on three themes . |
| 4 | Although nowadays a certain amount of mechanical testing is done for what might be called academic reasons , by far the most of it is done for strictly practical ends and in fact a thorough knowledge of the actual strength of its materials is , like drains and income tax , one of the things which no advanced civilization can do without . |
| 5 | In the latter cases , capital gains are being made from what might be termed special kinds of consumption property , only available to the rich . |
| 6 | Right you have to come I think the basis of this evening was to get people to come along and put there points of view and to say what 's happening and what is n't happening and I think we can take that take that away and considerate it yes I mean I I think the board or the management committee will be happy to meet with people to discuss the use of the theatre er what it 's used for what might what the unhappiness is if there is unhappiness and the positive and the positive as well as the negative points yes . |
| 7 | Since the stone had left her hand she had scarcely thought about what might be happening in her father 's house . |
| 8 | Both families had been transformed from what might be called a lumpen peasantry into what Marx did call the lumpen proletariat . |
| 9 | However , just as Norman had got up and down from another bunker for his last round of 69 , so did Beck , firmly sinking a putt of six feet as the Australian looked on and reflected on what might have been . |
| 10 | Today , the existence of these stages of psycho-sexual development is seldom disputed , even though , as we have already seen , the full significance of infantile sexuality is characteristically denied and avoided by what might be called the modern , permissive defence against psychoanalytic insight . |
| 11 | Indeed , some would go further and criticize the liberal variant of normativism on the ground that that doctrine is based on what might be called ‘ the Rationalist Fallacy ’ in political thinking ; that human beings act on rational motives . |
| 12 | It is vital to any understanding of the present state , both of public debate and personal morality , to realise the part played by what might generally be called the ‘ humanist lobby ’ . |
| 13 | The deterioration and shock phase were most delayed in what might be called culturally ‘ comfortable ’ countries and yet was still followed by eventual adjustment . |
| 14 | Teachers might find their loyalties divided : a wedge driven between what might be seen as opposing interests — for example supply cover for staff or more capitation for pupils . |
| 15 | Measurement has been used to examine the nature of variation between pairs of saucer brooches , particularly the ornament variation ( Dickinson 1982 ) ; the study was based on 52 pairs of cast saucer brooches , but a number of problems were encountered with what might have seemed a straightforward piece of research ( ibid. 22–3 ) . |
| 16 | This may find support in the fact that most of the confusions in terminology are found in what might be called the ‘ editorial ’ parts of the texts , in which the context is being briefly introduced before the decision of the master is quoted . |
| 17 | He had stopped thinking lewd thoughts ; his mind was concentrated on what might be a perfect opportunity to obey Viktor Rakovsky 's order . |
| 18 | Asked about what might spoil a friendship , the breaking of a confidence and ( for boys ) ‘ stealing ’ another person 's girlfriend were considered particularly disloyal . |
| 19 | ‘ He 's gone through what might be regarded as a quiet spell this season , ’ said Clough . |
| 20 | The Divisional Court , and the majority of their lordships in the House of Lords , were struck with what might be thought to be the obvious purpose of the Act , which was clearly passed with a view to assisting the police in the detection and prevention of crime . |
| 21 | Rather , the position is best characterised by what might be called a ‘ regulatory paradox ’ . |
| 22 | A shift in emphasis back to the rural areas was manifested by what might be termed an urbanization of the countryside . |