Example sentences of "one might [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus one might be perceived to the left of the other , or to the right of the other , or above the other . |
| 2 | He does not want his team disrupted and is even more concerned that one might be injured while playing for the county . |
| 3 | Worse still , one might be swallowed for ever in the morass . |
| 4 | By chance one might be whistling up for you , |
| 5 | These findings suggest that fixed-term contract workers and agency workers are not always direct substitutes for one another ( in other words , that resort to one might be made for reasons very different than resort to the other ) . |
| 6 | Certainly there seemed little point in giving either side the initial advantage ; invasion by one might be precipitated by an agreement with the other , and if Germany and the USSR came to blows , it would inevitably be on Polish soil . |
| 7 | Since it is not easy to see a distinction between their characteristic properties and some essence from which they flow , one might be tempted to think that , when Locke speaks of a coincidence of their real and nominal essence , he means that the notion of a real essence does not really apply to modes . |
| 8 | Among the items which therefore never saw light of day was one in which I suggested that there were individual candidates of all the parties in different parts of the country whom one might be tempted to vote for on purely personal grounds . |
| 9 | One might be tempted to dismiss such an enquiry as irrelevant to our discussion : human beings have Newton and Einstein , whereas animals do not , so human knowledge of physics can not be relevant to enquiries about chimps , beavers , or bees . |
| 10 | One might be tempted to argue that the photon is absorbed by the microscope and that by measuring the latter 's consequent recoil , due to acquiring the photon 's momentum after its collision with the electron , we could evaluate this momentum as accurately as we wished . |
| 11 | What comes to the fore through Gandhi 's strictures on the attitudes and methods of certain Christian missionaries is that it is possible for religious zeal and enthusiasm to lead to activities inconsistent with the religious and ethical ideals or values one might be seeking to promote . |
| 12 | An obvious one might be to execute three good carve gybes . |
| 13 | One might be means-testing and one might be privatising ’ may well be justified . |
| 14 | One might be forgiven for thinking that the bishops ’ letter had something to do with it and that Haughey was intent on constructing an alliance between those heeding the teaching of the hierarchy and the party faithful . |
| 15 | But one might be forgiven for doubting if this is the most likely cause of the toxic side-effects of direct drilling ! |
| 16 | Whereas in classical times , and in the periods of Dante and Milton , there was an accepted ideological structure of religious belief to be accepted , explored or questioned , one might be forgiven for enquiring whether any gods are present in The Prelude . |
| 17 | Looking at the state of tax law in the UK , one might be forgiven for concluding that the effect is extremely limited . |
| 18 | On reading many accounts of evolution one might be forgiven for thinking that its purpose was to produce us , the species Homo sapiens sapiens , in a rerun of the biblical account of creation with the agency of God replaced by the blind force of natural selection . |
| 19 | One might be forgiven for saying that the purpose of all this power , conventional and nuclear , is deterrence : Soviet might is not to be used to strike the enemy but hold him back . |
| 20 | From reading such reports one might be forgiven for thinking that the football terraces ran deep with blood each Saturday and that fans of Manchester United , like Protestants in parts of rural Spain , really do have horns on their heads . |
| 21 | Twenty-nine volumes , 5¾ X 3¾ ins. , whose small print must have been difficult to read by lamp or candle light , have survived and if these are typical of the whole library one might be forgiven , in 1984 , for not being surprised by the short life of the Society . |
| 22 | One might be forgiven the thought that Wagner 's theoretical position had at this point compounded too many incongruities to make criticism necessary . |
| 23 | Since the death rate after upper gastrointestinal haemorrhage from all causes rises sharply in the elderly one might be forgiven for assuming that this section of the population has such an appalling outlook that variceal haemorrhage should be most humanely ‘ treated with limited transfusion and sedation . ’ |
| 24 | One might be asked to report upon one 's beliefs to a psychologist or sociologist , interested in current opinion on matters biological , and say ‘ I believe that natural selection does not adequately account for the evolution of animal life ’ . |
| 25 | One might be stabbed in medias res . ) |
| 26 | The feel of the neck is very similar to that of an early Gibson SG , rather than the Les Paul which one might be expecting — somewhat shallower and feeling a little wider . |
| 27 | One might be doing what can also be done by whispering ‘ Do not believe what I said to George ’ ; the other might have winked to say ‘ We are being watched ’ . |
| 28 | In certain transactions one might be requested to accept a root of title that is less than 15 years old or a document other than a mortgage , or a conveyance on sale as the root deed . |
| 29 | One might be excused for wondering what the aged poet really believed . |
| 30 | Consequently , it is through consideration of these issues that one might be attracted to what , in any economically liberal conception of possible organizational postmodernism , would hardly be a promising example . |