Example sentences of "might think " in BNC.
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| 1 | An unwary reader might think that the book is a history of the changes in Western art , whereas it is in fact only a selection of some changes . |
| 2 | The chapter exposes a factor of complicity , and regards it , one might think , as a German invention . |
| 3 | A somewhat unusual system one might think : but not according to the papal encyclical Quadragesimo Anno of 1931 . |
| 4 | I think of it more as a novelist might think of a bookshop . |
| 5 | The end of the last chapter was , you might think , a suitable place to end the book , but it was n't , properly speaking , the end of my blue period . |
| 6 | Now he looked over at Cameron , taking stock of the quizzical lift of his right eyebrow when he looked out below his black fringe , the down-turn of his mouth under his long curved nose , and began to recapitulate his argument with care , uncomfortably aware that Angus might think he was trying not to sound drunk . |
| 7 | One might think that radical behaviourists such as Skinner would advocate the classification of stimuli along purely physical dimensions . |
| 8 | We might think that ‘ Naxos ’ in Cantos 2 , 24 , and 78 is the place of that name beneath Taormina , the site ( lately and partially excavated ) of the earliest Greek colony in Sicily , and thereafter the port whence the teams from all the Sicilian Greek cities made a ceremonial departure to compete in the Olympic Games ; but the Annotated Index is doubtless right to identify Naxos , on the contrary , with an island in the Aegean . |
| 9 | Harmonising international accounting standards is more important than one might think . |
| 10 | Curious subject matter for a children 's picture book , you might think , and hardly guaranteed to win the approval of the gimlet-eyed children 's book world . |
| 11 | The affliction is not as rare as you might think . |
| 12 | Reason , one might think , for the wary traveller to duck behind the luggage lockers , but no , the assembly listens rapt as John Berger ( for it is he ) embarks upon a long yarn about two Italian peasants who meet at a Communist Party dance . |
| 13 | ‘ You might think that I would have been happy to go on improving my golf handicap , ’ he said . |
| 14 | Four Hearts , on the other hand , was not a success although the play did not go quite as you might think . |
| 15 | FORGET WHAT they might think in Paris and Milan : China 's fashion commissars have decreed what is and is not stylish . |
| 16 | But the Union is not faring as well as it might think . |
| 17 | Some people might think they will be forgotten . |
| 18 | You might think the only safe course is straightforward , sound , economic government and you might wonder therefore why so rarely in recent years Governments have practised it , except when they have been hit over the head by external forces and events that they could n't resist . |
| 19 | One might think that such an ambition — no less than the forging of a cultural revolution — is most unconservative . |
| 20 | But before you go that way — real joy lies at the end of each bus trip to the east -it is compulsory , or so you might think , to visit Þingvellir . |
| 21 | If she is an educated girl you might think there would be careers open to her but only three are available — teacher , doctor or nurse ( although even nursing is disapproved of ) . |
| 22 | A. ( touching her face ) Because if someone 's black , if you touch them in the face you might think your face might get black . |
| 23 | Reinforced concrete is an example , and is not as irrelevant to motorised transport as you might think . |
| 24 | Hooligan behaviour is more elaborate than one might think . |
| 25 | ‘ It was n't what you might think . |
| 26 | Take Birmingham City , who you might think could hardly afford to alienate more of their fans . |
| 27 | Nothing wrong with that , you might think , even if it does represent more than 70 times last year 's earnings — a price-earnings ratio of Japanese proportions . |
| 28 | A happy compromise between the needs of family and work , you might think , but the end result is a sharp downgrading in the work returning mothers do . |
| 29 | Although risotto rice always cooks up wet , your guests might think that something has gone wrong . |
| 30 | This time the UN deserves someone of consequence — who might think of making a successful businessman his deputy in order to tackle the UN 's nightmarish bureaucracy . |