Example sentences of "to what [pers pn] might [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Benjamin and Elizabeth and their family belonged , in effect , to what we might choose to call the ‘ comfortable working class ’ ; they benefited from the general rise in Britain 's prosperity in Victorian times — cheaper food and clothing , better sanitation , faster transport , more substantial housing — but their money still had to be earned , had to be worked for . |
| 2 | This is in direct contrast to what we might expect to follow according to the inductivist view , namely , that in order to establish the truth of some problematic observation statement we appeal to more secure observation statements , and perhaps laws derived inductively from them , but not to theory . |
| 3 | We become insensitive to what we might call the ‘ once and might have been ’ of faith . |
| 4 | He was saying that the gods had so far been unkind , that they might turn kind , but that what the gods did for him was secondary to what they might do for Niki , a remark that turned out to be prophetic . |
| 5 | And that hurt was slight , compared to what it might have been if things had n't happened the way they had tonight . |
| 6 | Erm , I never had any idea as to what I might do when I left school , in fact erm , apart from basket making and er one or two manual skills of that sort erm , there was n't much available . |
| 7 | Have you any suggestions as to what I might try to overcome the problem ? |
| 8 | Giving of yourself should never be linked to what you might hope to gain in return . |
| 9 | ‘ Violette has even advised me as to what you might like . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Very rapidly Modigliani fell victim to what you might call ‘ the myth of bohemia ’ , from which he never emerged . |
| 12 | She suggests that children who score low on both comprehension and production may be immature or mentally retarded , although no explanation is provided as to what she might mean by these terms . |