Example sentences of "[prep] what you might [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Four of them are in cities of what you might regard as being of particular interest — Tripoli , Beirut , Damascus and Baghdad . ’ |
| 2 | If you are unsure of what you might change or there is clearly no one correct answer then place the emphasis on doing nothing until you are thoroughly familiar with the set up . |
| 3 | An example of what you might study in obtaining a CAM diploma in PR for Commercial Organizations : |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ No , in spite of what you might think . |
| 7 | You are afraid and full of excitement at thoughts of what you might find . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In practice , there are no limits as to the pictures a magazine can publish of a naked woman ( ‘ We would start to take an interest if the pictures were of what you might term kinky sex — bondage and so on , ’ says the Scotland Yard officer ) ; yet only the mildest pictures of naked men get into high-street newsagents . |
| 10 | ‘ Perhaps she was scared of what you might say , ’ Carrie suggested , and he snorted contemptuously . |
| 11 | ‘ Because of what you might have remembered since . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I am personally impressed and encouraged by what is going on in some of the hardest hit areas in my part of the world and by a series of what you might call chance accident , we 've actually got a sign on it on the platform here . |
| 18 | The treatment techniques we describe are not a treatment programme as such : they are examples of what you might see the patient doing , with explanations of what the physiotherapist is trying to achieve , and how the patient should respond . |
| 19 | And I 'm fairly canny about my career , despite what you might think . |
| 20 | Behind her I could see into what is rather optimistically known as the vestry — which is nothing more than a curtained-off area of the floor , rather like what you might see in a hospital casualty ward . |
| 21 | Every now and again , we run up against what you might call a medieval . |
| 22 | At the same time that personal computer technology is moving to centre stage for corporate applications , ‘ it is moving down into what you might call the intelligent television , where you can select any type of movie to see , or shop , or interact with information , ’ Gates said . |
| 23 | I mean , for instance , in my dreams er cars have taken on a very distinct personal symbolism that has really nothing to do with what you might think , because of personal experiences of mine , and I now know that whenever I dream about cars it always always has this but that 's because of something that happened to me and because of my personal erm kind of experiences , so cars have become a dream symbol . |
| 24 | In this case Dr Lusman did not do that and he took the sample by using his finger and a spatula , in what you might call a blind manner , and doing it by feeling . |
| 25 | In what you might call quiet years . |
| 26 | in , in what you might call hot water |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Giving of yourself should never be linked to what you might hope to gain in return . |
| 29 | ‘ Violette has even advised me as to what you might like . |
| 30 | Needles can be placed in the ears , hands , legs and lower back and contrary to what you might imagine , you can move around during labour with the needles in . |