Example sentences of "what might be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here , he surrounds the politics of his imaginary country with darkness , distinguishes between its politics and what might be seen as the antics of bystanders , and concentrates on these bystanders . |
| 2 | ‘ Yes , madam , ’ he said at last , ‘ I am granting that his conducting of himself is not what might be expected . |
| 3 | what might be read |
| 4 | What might be responsible for such an unusual pattern of performance ? |
| 5 | Having taught English Literature for a long time in universities , on both sides of the Atlantic , and having spent some years pondering the questions raised in this book , I have come to some very tentative conclusions about what might be done ; they are not , I might add , of the kind I thought I would come to when I began working on it . |
| 6 | It is at any rate a sketch of what might be involved in restoring a writer — in this case , the young Pound — to the highly specific social milieu , that of Edwardian England , in which he moved and on which he impinged . |
| 7 | Branagh , too , talks like a winner , and Henry V offers him better than any other play in the repertoire what might be called a yuppie dynamic , a mythology of success and self-definition rather than of struggle . |
| 8 | But the distinguishing feature of those films ( even if they can not quite be credited with inventing the conceit ) was what might be called their sense of the inverted anachronism . |
| 9 | But it 's ultimately about winning : Henry V offers Branagh , better than any other play in the repertoire , what might be called a yuppie dynamic , a mythology of success and entrepreneurial self-definition . |
| 10 | ‘ Henry V offers ( Branagh ) , better than any other play in the repertoire , what might be called a yuppie dynamic , a mythology of success and self-definition rather than of struggle … |
| 11 | HEAVY with prizes from Venice , She 's Been Away ( BBC1 ) was , superficially , one of those pieces in which a major star offers what might be called a Complex Simpleton performance . |
| 12 | Ms Doi is an avowed addict of what might be described as watching hundreds of tiny steel balls clatter through a maze of pins on a vertical board . |
| 13 | The style and the political and military viewpoints of Hajo Herrmann are what might be expected from one who was an officer cadet in the German army of 1934 , a founder member of the Condor Legion in Spain , a proposer of suicidal ramming of Allied bombers and a confidant of Herrmann Goering . |
| 14 | I have in mind two especially : the first involves what might be called the impossibility of desire , the second the notion of desire and/or identity as involving an ineluctable splitting . |
| 15 | These accounts derive from diverse current perspectives which should not be conflated — psychoanalysis , philosophy , and what might be called the metaphysical vision of the cultural critic and creative writer . |
| 16 | What is especially fascinating about this text is that a rehabilitation of masculinity coexists with an ironic repudiation of it , and a critique of what might be called masculinity 's cultural unconscious . |
| 17 | One was not then justified in thinking and functioning in terms of what might be in the national interest , what might ultimately be a desirable development for NATO strategy or defence strategy . |
| 18 | These new levels invariably clash with such a feature and variations on one means of convincingly disguising what might be an unattractive junction of new and retained construction are illustrated in the following sections , which include accounts of the conversion of two conventional nineteenth-century Anglican churches . |
| 19 | That is to say he is not in the least drawn to the idea that Christ came in the flesh , and he finds the simplicity and literalism of what might be termed ‘ mere Christianity ’ frankly unacceptable . |
| 20 | I shall be watching the practical results with interest to see what might be applicable to our work in the Duchy of Cornwall , for I am sure that there will be lessons that we can learn . |
| 21 | Paul and Malcolm Bream first spent time exploring possible sources of voluntary funding , and then saw what might be done with the local authority , but have now turned back to their original search for their own place . |
| 22 | Most of these demonstrators appeared to be intellectual , or at least what might be called middle class . |
| 23 | Their view of the seriousness of Iraq 's action , and the reaction it demanded , was different enough from Mr Bush 's to scupper talk of global partnerships and replace it by what might be called contingent leadership . |
| 24 | I felt proud and grown-up as I made my way down the road , concentrating my mind for what might be required of me . |
| 25 | ( It is in lesbian writing that one finds a sense of what might be possible if women 's desire was autonomous and acknowledged . ) |
| 26 | If your dog has n't presented a problem for years , is getting old but still appears to be healthy , and starts to display antisocial behaviour — check it out with your vet before you start to punish him or her for what might be a cry for help . |
| 27 | His instincts finally rang the bell and told him this man had more than a casual interest in what might be going on downstairs . |
| 28 | I can only suppose that my name had respectable associations , and he thought it might allay criticism in what might be called Athenaeum circles . |
| 29 | There are no easy answers but maybe a few guidelines as to what might be happening , for Margaret , staring dry-eyed and forlorn into a new day , and for all the other people who have ever had that sort of feeling . |
| 30 | He assumed that someone was contributing ; it was ‘ in the air ’ and ‘ in the atmosphere ’ ; but he was too busy to ask questions , and , besides , you never knew what might be ‘ compartmented or committed or authorized ’ . |