Example sentences of "[to-vb] what [pron] might [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She tried to guess what he might have found out about Sabine Jourdain that did not hinge on her death . |
| 2 | It is important to establish empathy with patients who have visual problems in order to discover what they might find helpful , and what is required for independence to be maintained or regained . |
| 3 | To extrapolate what they might say about women 's experience under patriarchy on the basis of comments about the reading material they choose is quite a leap . |
| 4 | He prefers simply to place the issues before them , and allow them to make their own moral decisions and to choose what they might want to do . |
| 5 | While waiting I tried to imagine what she might have been thinking . |
| 6 | There was no attempt by either Salisbury or Kilmuir to use what one might call a prefect 's influence on the opinion of those they interviewed . |
| 7 | Yet it is only through particular instances of truth that we can come to understand what it might mean to speak of absolute Truth . |
| 8 | To overcome this barrier , I suggest , one must look at the approach in action ; only then will it be possible to see what it has achieved , and to assess what it might achieve if taken on its own terms . |
| 9 | Whereas we used to have what you might call an across-the-table relationship with our customers , now we can claim to be sitting on the same side of the table . ’ |
| 10 | For Gandhi , particular religions are necessary to convey what it might mean to speak of the one , true and perfect Religion which is beyond predication and not realized within finite existence . |
| 11 | I undertake to examine all these matters to see what we might do . |
| 12 | Heard the gentleman 's voice , more like , and come down to see what you might get out of him . ’ |
| 13 | I have a look to see what I might wear today . |
| 14 | I went through cookbooks to see what I might do with it . |
| 15 | Modern research has shown that the innate factors at work seem largely to affect what we might call ego-development . |
| 16 | The terrorist is normally a person who , as such , risks death either by his own weapons or in the commission of his act , and is at least as likely to court what he might regard as a martyr 's or patriot 's death as to be deterred by it . |
| 17 | So it is very difficult to achieve what one might call a set pattern in life . |