Example sentences of "one might [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was keeping her voice low , much as one might while singing a lullaby to the one wakeful soul in a house full of sleeping children . |
| 2 | In the scientific sessions one might if one were lucky witness some great row . |
| 3 | Proving ignorance of facts that one might or might not have known is impossible , unless one has been in a well-documented coma . |
| 4 | This approach seems likely to leave a ‘ grey area ’ of flows that one might or might not choose to call turbulent . |
| 5 | But what is unavoidable may still be undesirable , and one might as well say so . |
| 6 | If this is so , then it seems that for ‘ the art one serves ’ one might as well read : the culture one serves , the historical period one serves , even the society one serves ( perhaps an international society ) . |
| 7 | One might as well expect mercy from a killer shark or warmth from a cube of ice . |
| 8 | So camp one might as well watch from a tent . |
| 9 | Given those odds , claims Salsburg , one might as well flip a coin . |
| 10 | C. S. Lewis offered the most daring statement in the final volume of the ‘ Narnia ’ series , The Last Battle ( 1956 ) , in which we come across a young ( dead ) virtuous pagan , Emeth , who explains that all his life he has served Tash and scorned Aslan the Lion — earlier on it has been made clear that Tash is a bloody demon , Aslan , one might as well say , the ‘ Narnian ’ Christ . |
| 11 | If one realizes that one is dealing with myths and symbols , then one might as well create myths and symbols which are true to what one would symbolize . |
| 12 | ‘ One might as well ask a tree why it grows , ’ Minton is said to have replied . |
| 13 | One might as well welcome them , after all : there is not much point in rejecting them . |
| 14 | If one had to worry about one 's actions in respect of other people 's ideas , one might as well be buried alive in an ant heap or married to an ambitious violinist . |
| 15 | I do n't mind that television is trivial — one might as well mind that a banana is bent — nor do I much object to the BBC appointing a personnel director to implement witlessly trendy policies . |
| 16 | As explained before , this means that one might as well cut the big bang , and any events before it , out of the theory , because they can have no effect on what we observe . |
| 17 | But being steeped , like them , in the philosophy that if one did a job at all one might as well do it splendidly — or at least a good deal better than the Braithwaites — he had built a very decent stone school with a walled yard and a tiny house attached for the use of the teacher , where anyone who paid him rent for his mill-cottages or any of his other employees who resided elsewhere might send their children — to suit the convenience of the teacher — free of charge . |
| 18 | One might as well not be there . ’ |
| 19 | One might as well compare a soft grass path with a concrete walkway . ’ |
| 20 | One might as well speak of even-handed socialism . |
| 21 | Windeler paused , as one might when humouring an over-ambitious suggestion from a bright child . |