Example sentences of "what it might [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jay knew it , numbed herself against what it might mean . |
| 2 | Which is interesting because here the three of us are , thinking about what it means to belong somewhere , what it might mean to belong to this idea called ‘ theatre ’ . |
| 3 | Yet it is only through particular instances of truth that we can come to understand what it might mean to speak of absolute Truth . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | To go onstage in the flag is to be a 50p magnet , no matter what it might mean in an ideal world . |
| 6 | As part of the process of clarifying what might be meant by brainwashing , I proposed a working definition of what it might mean to make a choice : |
| 7 | From this it follows that we could give some account of what it might mean to ‘ change the context ’ in the sense in which Fillmore ( 1977 : 119 ) envisages this when he says ‘ I … find myself asking what the effect would have been if the context had been slightly different . ’ |
| 8 | Nobody else was moved over the next couple of days so we talked endlessly about what it might mean . |
| 9 | For a while he tried to read , tried to sink back down into the fortunes of young Pao-yu and his beloved cousin , Tai-yu , but it was no good ; his mind kept returning to the question of the Aristotle File and what it might mean for Chung Kuo . |
| 10 | This leaflet is intended to provide a concise overview of the 1992 process , focusing on what it might mean for local authorities . |
| 11 | He stared back at her , realising what it might mean . |
| 12 | Now she was perplexed and afraid ; perplexed because she did not understand what had happened , and afraid of what it might mean if she did . |
| 13 | Although set up fairly soon after the coordinating committee , the Inservice Panel got off to rather a slow start , with its early meetings being characterised by fairly unstructured discussion of how it might function and what it might aim to achieve . |
| 14 | ‘ … and the moral of that [ said the Duchess ] is — ‘ Be what you would seem to be ’ — or , if you 'd like it put more simply — ‘ Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise . |
| 15 | Fleming had called it a ferment , or enzyme , but that did not take matters very far , and gave no hint of what it might ferment , or of what substance it attacked in susceptible microbes . |
| 16 | In theoretical terms , too , it is hard to object because , of course , everybody has their own detailed definition of what it might contain . |
| 17 | We are looking for people who can accept that the past has passed and , whilst remembering it with fondness , can also look to the future and view what it might bring with a degree of optimism and hope . |
| 18 | ‘ Scared of what it might lead to ? ’ he asked with gentle mockery . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The present American tendency is to ask what a country can now do for itself and for the United States , not what it might do in other circumstances , nor yet what it deserves . |
| 21 | For some suggestions on what it might do , if we can ever find it , see Johnson-Laird ( 1983 ) . |
| 22 | I 've got no idea of what it might fetch , but as I say it is fiction Kath , do n't worry about it . |
| 23 | Advocates of localization were in the same position as the explorers of the sixteenth century ; they knew there was something out there but they did n't know where it was or what it might look like . |
| 24 | With the coat-collar of his Burberry turned up , he reminded her of a private eye in a film — she was under surveillance , everything about him accentuated his detailed analysis of her appearance , and she felt a shiver at what it might portend . |
| 25 | It has received meticulous counsel from one of the nation 's highest courts about what it might wish to say on the subject in the future . |
| 26 | Finally , All that Dwell Therein shows that the debate is important , not just for the effect it might ultimately have on our treatment of animals , but for what it might reveal about ourselves . |
| 27 | So what it might develop in , into is er wider scholarship for travel . |
| 28 | I asked him what it might have been ; after all , if he was an expert on the local birds then he ought to know . |
| 29 | Mrs Browning was still pale and shaky as we settled ourselves by the fire ( and what the moon saw , or what it might have seen if its beams could have penetrated the closely-drawn curtains supplemented by plastic sheeting to foil the poison gas , might have seemed a little unusual ; but who can tell what strange sights are enclosed within the cheerful light of a curtained window ? ) . |
| 30 | All the hits are here ; ‘ Respect ’ , ‘ Musical Freedom ’ , ‘ Ring My Bell ’ , ‘ Warning ’ etc , but this is n't what it might have been . |