Example sentences of "might [adv] [be] say " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Rovers return , it might justifiably be said for 28-year-old Mimms has just bought the pub next to the house where he was born . |
| 2 | But other concerns seem to centre around whether animals might properly be said to be happy or free from worry' , not in the sense of being healthy and free from pain but rather with the human paradigm in mind . |
| 3 | Too simple a judgment perhaps : it might better be said that , manifested as the Consumers ' Movement , Co-operation had become an alternative presentation of the rights of ownership against the rights of labour , while trade unionism existed to assert the rights of labour against those of ownership . |
| 4 | The company might perhaps be saying that , as happens throughout Britain , nursery children are drawing on waste computer paper . |
| 5 | Of course , it might still be said on behalf of the 1981 arrangements that making houses bid for bills , when buying or selling , is a genuine step towards market pricing of bills . |
| 6 | Harold MacMillan , Prime Minister , might still be saying to the electorate that they had never had it so good — which was true in terms of the change-round from post-war reconstruction , wartime destruction , and the days of depression ; but to someone of Leonard 's background , from Canada , the place was a bore . |
| 7 | He might still be saying — lying through his teeth — that her breasts were as firm as ever . |
| 8 | Thus it might erroneously be said of the dog 's leaping to catch the ball that what I really see are just its movements , upon the basis of which I make a leap of faith to its inner , privately introspective , enjoyment . |
| 9 | What Butler says of this account — namely that it ‘ tells us more about the fantasies that a fearful heterosexual culture produces to defend against its own homosexual possibilities , than about lesbian experience itself ’ ( Gender Trouble , 86 — 7 ) — might also be said more generally of the way homosexuality is conceptualized in sexual difference theory . |
| 10 | In such a situation , the participants may , in fact , ‘ speak topically ’ , but they might also be said to be speaking on a topic . |
| 11 | In one sense it might also be said to have laboured to produce a mouse . |
| 12 | It might also be said that the Portland Limestone of southern England is the Tithonian limestone in yet another form , with what is mainly a molluscan fauna of limited diversity . |
| 13 | Talking around the subject and not coming directly to the point ; saying in 30 words what might equally be said in 10 . |
| 14 | And it might even be said that it is from this , far more than from early Christianity , that we have inherited our sense of the dubious physical nature of the female , and our idea that the human norm is male and that to be female is in itself a pathological state . |
| 15 | A flower or tree might well be said to show signs of distress much as an athlete might unwittingly show symptoms of it , although it would be inappropriate to describe a watch in that way . |
| 16 | Indeed , so close is the degree of correspondence between prosecution preference and decision as to venue ( 96 per cent according to one study : Riley and Vennard , 1999 ) that magistrates might almost be said to have sub-delegated their responsibility to the latter . |
| 17 | These people might indeed be said to have had a right to move once again centre stage , and so it is hardly surprising to find among them the great names of the first Napoleonic age . |
| 18 | Paradoxically , if such a person were to fail to give notice , he might then be said to be committing an offence even though , because of the hypothesised publicity , it is most unlikely that the police will not already know about his proposed march . |