Example sentences of "might be say " in BNC.
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| 1 | A simpler way of looking at laicisation might be to say that institutional Christianity has lost some of its functions : most education passes from church to state ; so too do medicine , welfare and human counselling . |
| 2 | The point I 'm making however , is that a , a fairer way to judge this book , might be to say , not well let , let's reject everything in it that 's Lamarckian , cos it does n't fit with our modern prejudices , a fairer way , might be to read it the way we read Darwin 's works , where there is also considerable Lamarckenis Lamarckism , and say well , this is er , this is an understandable error , given the poor state of knowledge that people had about genetics at the time , and then try and make sense of it . |
| 3 | Another way of looking at this might be to say in a sense there are there are two bits , one is identifying where we are now and identifying in relation to both |
| 4 | Consider Czech art , which might be said to have existed only since the beginning of the Czechoslovak state after the first World War . |
| 5 | The constructivist starting-point could not be more different , and might be said to be ‘ biological ’ where the representational theory is ‘ engineering ’ — or ‘ machinological ’ . |
| 6 | And while it might be said that his version of pochvennost comes from this same source , and while it is certainly true that pochvennost deserves a longer footnote than the Petrine reforms , a footnote is all it should be . |
| 7 | John Ruskin , it might be said , was the last considerable figure before Pound to hold in all seriousness , as Pound did , that the level of craftsmanship and artistry in a society was the one infallible measure of that society 's moral and civic health . |
| 8 | The same might be said of Neville Brody whose typography for The Face owes more to computer-operated typesetting than to calligraphy . |
| 9 | It might be said that Rochlin is not to be taken seriously , being merely a popularizing psychologist . |
| 10 | In the process Fanon might be said to have overestimated the extent to which , from subordination , it is possible to construct ‘ a politically conscious , unified , revolutionary Self , standing in unmitigated opposition to the oppressor ’ ( Problems , 30 ) . |
| 11 | It might be said that the museum was Mrs Gardner 's revenge ; Fenway Court , the remarkable Italian palazzo which she built well outside respectable Boston among the city 's breweries and distilleries , was named by her The Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum . |
| 12 | Two years later she began using Bernard Berenson as her buyer of Italian old masters , although it might be said that Berenson was using her , praising each new find in breathless superlatives in order to get the best price out of his patroness . |
| 13 | English law might be said to recognize a right to self-determination , inasmuch as suicide is no longer a crime , but that right does not yield a clear answer to the present difficulty . |
| 14 | Spiegelman might be said to bring out this infantile helplessness ( ’ Mostly I felt like crying ’ ) in all his readers alongside their most sophisticated imaginative and emotional responses . |
| 15 | Indeed , it might be said that Augusta , as a whole , is his territory . |
| 16 | The same might be said of Giscard d'Estaing 's less populist party , the ‘ Union pour la Democratie Française ’ . |
| 17 | Counter-culture , it might be said , was no loose term applied to a bunch of idle west coast hippies , whose philosophies were being trendily copied the world over . |
| 18 | ( Stimulus A of fig. 5.10 might be said to be enriched , if only a little , by virtue of its ability to evoke the image of X. ) The differentiation theory , in contrast , holds that ‘ percepts change over time by progressive elaboration of qualities , features and dimensions of variation ’ ( Gibson and Gibson 1955 , p. 34 ) , that is , by an elaboration of aspects of the stimulus that are present in it from the outset . |
| 19 | I imagine it might be said that it was too insistent on formal academic instruction , that it took things like examinations very seriously and prided itself on its academic record ; yet in fact the education it gave was surprisingly wide and varied … |
| 20 | It might be said truthfully he died at the high point of his fame ! |
| 21 | The first might be said to be context- and task-independent : we can understand what a sequence of symbols is meant to represent , without understanding the context within which those symbols might be put to use . |
| 22 | For those that understand such terminology it might be said that the remedies work at the level of energy and not of matter . |
| 23 | First , context suggests the sort of thing that might be said ( the crash was on a border , so the question of which side of the border something will happen on is appropriate ) . |
| 24 | All children , it might be said , are special ; with good fortune , they are special to those who parent them , to those who help them to learn , to those to whom they are clients , and to themselves . |
| 25 | If you can make her laugh while you 're coming in her mouth , then you might be said to have arrived . |
| 26 | The Church was built in 1863 by William Hall and might be said to represent the ultimate in Victorian Non-Conformist ‘ Chapel ’ building . |
| 27 | There was a curious silence , a moment when it seemed that something might be said . |
| 28 | As Gandhi has glimpses of absolute Truth through instances of relative truth so , it might be said , he has glimpses of Religion through particular historical religions . |
| 29 | Yet particular religions , it might be said , are necessary to convey the meaning of Religion in the same way as particular truths are necessary to convey the meaning of Truth . |
| 30 | What might be said is that the ethical connotation of the method of action he proposed was being made clear by the choice of satyāgraha rather than sadāgraha . |