Example sentences of "one might [adv] [vb infin] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The enragés and the Girondins had their counterparts in Vietnam and in some respects , for example asceticism and a belief in virtue , whether Confucian or revolutionary , one might even compare Ho with Robespierre . |
| 2 | The bungalow huddles , one might even say broods , above an outcrop of ground high above the main road beside which it was built . |
| 3 | The central thesis is that " coding creates reality rather than simply reporting it " ; but to suggest that " simple reporting " is how one might normally see coding functioning in relation to reality is to presuppose a very naive view . |
| 4 | He could not imagine finding tranquillity of soul in old age ; if he could only be allowed to mark time for a while all might yet be well , one might suddenly achieve equilibrium , certainty , serenity . |
| 5 | For the moment , just imagine holding variables constant ; to control for the size of the fire , for example , one might only consider cases where an isolated car had caught fire . |
| 6 | 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 . |