Example sentences of "on what [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both works end on a possible return , on what might look like a bleak diminuendo but is really an anxiety state . |
| 2 | Fidel Castro is no far-distant Arab , but rules an island only 90 miles from Key West , on what might have been home ground had politics gone slightly differently less than a century ago . |
| 3 | Leicester , scoring only once more despite concerted attacks , were left to ponder on what might have been . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Meanwhile conscious awareness is freed to survey the landscape , to plan a route , to talk with fellow cyclists , or to dream on what might have been or what once was . |
| 6 | We can only speculate on what might have been had there been a full-hearted commitment to PR and a working agreement with the Lib Dems . |
| 7 | There 's no point in dwelling on what might have been . |
| 8 | Below , shattered team-mate Russell Garcia reflects on what might have been . |
| 9 | Bartlett 's recall may be elusive , while the popular Roland Lefebvre is left pondering sadly on what might have been if he had not suffered that pre-season arm injury in a misplaced prank involving Sussex 's Brad Donelan . |
| 10 | Professor Hoskins was right to reflect on what might have happened if parliamentary enclosure had taken place today . |
| 11 | The French magazine Sport Premiere , recently speculated on what might have happened to Nava , had it continued — in particular an enhanced wrap for the leg . |
| 12 | It was with Rohde that Nietzsche had intended to spend the forthcoming year in Paris on what might have amounted to a non-classical refresher course . |
| 13 | She might live to rue this impetuous decision , but at least she 'd never look back with regret on what might have been if only she 'd had the courage to dare . |
| 14 | ‘ To get back to Sir Conrad , sir , and taking as a working hypothesis that he was murdered by an insider , I would welcome your advice on what might have been the motive . ’ |
| 15 | Perhaps the best part of the show was the ‘ If only … ’ sketch in which he reflected on what might have been . |
| 16 | And facing up to the Italian job , Aberdeen reflect on what might have been . |
| 17 | ENGLAND B were left to reflect on what might have been after missing a couple of vital tackles in their 20-16 defeat at the hands of South Africa at Bristol . |
| 18 | The Committee was generally critical of the universities ' past role , and clearly hoped that the CNAA might be persuaded to take on what might prove to be a very substantial validating function . |
| 19 | But ‘ Shakespeare 's Sister ’ ( which took its title from a Virginia Woolf essay on what would have happened if the bard had been female , a different way of looking at women although one has to search hard to find any reference to this in the actual song ) was hardly the band 's most shining masterwork , merely a jumble or rock and rockabilly plummeting through 129 seconds which fail to motivate the memory cells . |
| 20 | It is tempting to speculate on what would have been the form of the Foreign Office had this union occurred . |
| 21 | I 've often speculated since on what would have happened if we 'd just given ourselves up at this point . |
| 22 | The BBC planned to give the film a third airing on what would have been the admiral 's eightieth birthday , and when this became known we were approached by Lord Brabourne , Mountbatten 's son-in-law , to say that his cousin Prince Charles who , as everyone knew , adored his uncle , wanted to pay him a personal tribute . |
| 23 | It is impossible to check the validity of this statement , as the Government has consistently refused to provide the key information necessary to make this calculation , namely details on what would have paid out in the uprating allowance of supplementary benefit had it still been in force in April 1988 . |
| 24 | We squatted together next to the ashes of the death-house , surveying the dissolution of the Rante and ruminating on what would have been a uniquely dramatic ending to our sequence . |
| 25 | Now this is a a sort of cost benefit benefit analysis based on what would have happened if we 'd followed these protocols ourselves . |
| 26 | The character , in fact , was last seen disappearing from the Close on what would have been her daughter 's most memorable day . |
| 27 | And the John Lennon hit single ‘ Imagine ’ has been played simultaneously on more than a thousand radio stations worldwide ; it was one of the tributes on what would have been the ex-Beatle 's fiftieth birthday , and was played as an anthem to world peace . |
| 28 | Further memories were revived by a visit from his mother in the summer of 1921 which brought ‘ another anxiety as well as a joy ’ when Eliot was working on what would become The Waste Land . |
| 29 | By the time when he began to work most intensively on what would become The Waste Land , Eliot was neither god nor martyr . |
| 30 | Certainly , I have known some undergraduates who would rise brilliantly to such a challenge ; but they are an exception , and one can not base a course on what would suit the exceptional student , much as one would like to . |