Example sentences of "[noun] of [Wh det] might [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She took to drinking more than she should , and most nights she would cry herself to sleep , thinking of what might have been . |
| 2 | Overnight the full force of what might have happened had finally come home to Elise , and she 'd spent most of the day clucking round her young sister like a hen with one chick . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Her mind kept flicking back to the python smile of the assassin , conjuring images of what might have been : death , blood , pain . |
| 5 | Ltd. v. Hawkins ( 1859 ) 4 H. & N. 87 was authority for the proposition that it was an ordinary incident of all corporations ( including municipal corporations ) that they might sue for libel ; that case was only authority for the proposition that a trading company might sue for libel by which its property was injured ; ( 3 ) in holding that the Manchester Corporation case was decided per incuriam when there was no basis for so holding and he should have followed it ; ( 4 ) in holding that in bringing an action for libel not alleged to have caused actual damage , no valid distinction could be made between trading corporations and municipal corporations , which ignored the true basis on which a trading corporation was permitted to sue for libel , namely that it had a trading character , the defamation of which might ruin it : South Hetton Coal Co . Ltd. v. North-Eastern News Association Ltd. [ 1894 ] 1 Q.B. 133 , 145 . |
| 6 | Just before I snapped out of it , aborted the failed trance , I thought I saw — although I could n't be certain — the ragged hole in the beard through which Gyggle addressed the world unravel a little at its edge , exposing a slug side of what might have been Gyggle 's lip . |
| 7 | You should also note points where a pause could be made for recap on the story so far or for prediction of what might happen next . |
| 8 | First , the conception of what might pass under the heading of ‘ learning ’ falls short of the possible process of intellectual development . |
| 9 | IT WAS a case of what might have been for Scottish trio Cathy Panton-Lewis , Julie Forbes and Gillian Stewart in the opening round of the Republic of China Open at Chang Gung in Taipei yesterday . |
| 10 | As it is , Manea ( pronounced Mainy ) remains a tiny hamlet in the Ouse washes , haunted by the ghost of what might have been . |
| 11 | Where there is limited net asset cover , the vendors might be asked to warrant that they are not aware of any information relating to the target which has been knowingly withheld , the disclosure of which might effect the decision of the purchaser to proceed . |
| 12 | However , there were other reasons such as ‘ lost documentation ’ and small balances written off , all of which comprised the annual figure , the disclosure of which might result in too much attention being given to his department . |
| 13 | Information concerning or identifying another pupil should not be disclosed , and information , the disclosure of which might cause serious harm to the mental or physical health or emotional condition of the pupil or anyone else , or which indicates that the pupil has or may be likely to suffer child abuse , should not be disclosed . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | No I 'm just trying to understand the implications of what might happen , supposing at some stage this land were developed . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The ceremony will be a bitter-sweet reminder of what might have been for Princess Margaret , forbidden from marrying her divorced sweetheart Peter Townsend . |
| 20 | IN A desperate attempt to cheer ourselves up at one particularly gloomy moment last week , my Somerset neighbour William Rees-Mogg and I were trying to construct the scenario of what might happen if Labour scraped into power . |
| 21 | ‘ Mrs Hammond , forgive me , but … did you , both of you , give serious thought to the possibilities of what might happen when you decided to come on a cruise ? ’ |
| 22 | In the abbey church of St Seurin at Bordeaux , for example , he could see Roland 's horn , the sound of which might have summoned reinforcements to Roncesvalles but which Roland , more careful of his reputation than of his life , had refused to blow until it was too late . |
| 23 | At least the first time , she 'd only a vague notion of what might lie ahead . |
| 24 | Tow days after this , I was going pot-holing and the problems of what might go wrong came up . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ Our research is into prevention , ’ he said , rather than the simulation of what might happen in an accident . |
| 28 | The 8100 is the more compelling indicator of what might happen to OS/2 2.0 : IBM spent so much money developing both the hardware and a completely new operating environment and set of compilers and utilities for the thing that it had to recoup its investment , come hell or high water , before it could be killed off , despite the fact that within a couple of years , it became clear that what users wanted as a distributed processor was the machine that eventually appeared — fatally too late — as the 9370 . |
| 29 | Fears of what might happen in the East are one reason EC leaders have been willing to offer some help to those on the other side of the broken Berlin Wall . |
| 30 | PAMELA : [ aside ] I have a little tincture of jealousy too , which has made me more uneasy than I ought to be , particularly in the case of Miss Sally Godfrey and my fears of what might happen when we reach London . |