Example sentences of "might almost say " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each must decide as he pleases , according to whether his temperament urges him to prefer the prolific , radiant , almost jovial abundance of Rubens ; the mild dignity and eurhythmic order of Raphael ; the paradisal — one might almost say the afternoon colour of Veronese ; the austere and strained severity of David ; or the dramatic and almost literary rhetoric of Lebrun . |
| 2 | His first and continuing urge was to drive him towards crisis and clarity , which involved , one might almost say which meant , finding a podvig that would satisfy his idea of Stavrogin . |
| 3 | So far so good ; or one might almost say , so unproblematic . |
| 4 | A requirement to minimise , even to trivialise the aesthetic — one might almost say , a fear of the aesthetic — is the hollowness at the heart of historical materialism as it is defended here . |
| 5 | They relate to a brief two-year crisis period in her forty-four year life ; and although they are by no means irrelevant to her political role , the approach to them has had such a predominantly personal — one might almost say tabloid — quality that the historiographical Mary is immediately marked out from all other historical monarchs , Scottish or otherwise . |
| 6 | Between the Buid and the Christians there is a difference in outlook so profound that one might almost say that a state of permanent antagonism and hostility prevails between them . |
| 7 | Such an ability would be of more than merely theoretical interest : there are specialists , detectives one might almost say , who can take enormous quantities of program in a lower-level language ( not binary numbers , but normally machine code or something a little ‘ higher ’ ) and make plausible guesses as to what they actually do at a higher level of description ; or rather , given that they are told what the program was designed to do , work out how it accomplished the task and by what ‘ higher-level ’ steps . |
| 8 | Overseas creditors , we might almost say , have never had it so good . |
| 9 | At a stroke , we might almost say , political ideas which had only been aspirations or dreams in the minds of philosophers or popular radicals , were placed on the agenda of real politics , not only in France or even Europe , but globally . |
| 10 | In the new year he sent Sixsmith a series — one might almost say a sequence — of screenplays on group-jeopardy themes . |
| 11 | The treatment of the sky and of the areas between the various landscape objects , the boats , lighthouses and breakwaters , in terms of the same facets or pictorial units into which the objects themselves are dissolved , has the effect of making space seem as real , as material , one might almost say as ‘ pictorial ’ as the solid objects themselves . |
| 12 | Braque has said ‘ there is in nature a tactile space , I might almost say a manual space … |
| 13 | We might almost say that successful businesses have had to succeed despite hierarchical organization rather than because of it . |
| 14 | For example , ( a ) damage to paths , is also caused by walkers , witness the problems of erosion on many popular tracks ; ( b ) the passage of cyclists requires walkers to step aside ( ! ! ) — this and para ( c ) sound really churlish , I might almost say childish , and give the impression of an RA membership composed entirely of geriatrics — which I 'm sure is not the case . |
| 15 | But , but , but the whole social and cultural revolution evolution change has led I think to whole different schisms in the press which perhaps may have existed in some of the very one might almost say near communist publication like the |
| 16 | I might almost say an honoured guest " ( p. 69 ) , but these , and further modesty maxim violations now function as statements of the felicity conditions upon which he bases his threats : Anderson " doth protest too much " , however , and the forcefulness of his language is a far-from-convincing attempt to conceal his insecurity . |