Example sentences of "one might [vb infin] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , for example , one might suggest lucifer as a synonym for match in 8 ( but not in 9 ) , and contest as a synonym in 9 ( but not in 8 ) : |
| 2 | But the situation is complicated by the knowledge that in one 's all too brief absence the space left by one 's departure is already in process of closing over — new topics are in hand and one might create offence to the members of the reconstituted group by seeming to re-insert oneself . |
| 3 | He did so partly by relying on the unquestioned fact that death and violence were an integral element in many books which were already on the way to becoming children 's classics ; from a list compiled rather later in the century one might cite Grimm 's Fairy Tales , Hans Andersen 's and the expurgated Arabian Nights . |
| 4 | The geographical one might contain words like ’ land ’ , ’ river ’ , ’ side ’ , ’ water ’ , etc. and the financial one words like ’ establishment ’ , ’ keep ’ , ’ money ’ , ’ safe ’ , etc . |
| 5 | One must be prepared to contemplate biblical material as dispassionately as one might contemplate chronicles pertaining to Caesar , or Alexander — or Cortés . |
| 6 | With all the bad publicity , one might think Americans were fed up with the NEA . |
| 7 | If some unit larger than the grapheme is used , such as a ( vowel + consonant ) unit , one might expect gead to be pronounced to rhyme with bread , because the most common pronunciation for — ead is the one used for bread . |
| 8 | Yes , it 's rather the kind of correspondence one might expect Tod Friendly to go in for : unvarying , humourless and one-way , like junk mail . |
| 9 | One might expect females to compete for rich food sources , for these are important to them in gaining nutrition for child-bearing and lactation . |
| 10 | This seems unlikely , however , because one might expect females to be just as much in need of protection as males . |
| 11 | One might expect politicians to talk fast and academics endorsing the view that the European Community is something so new and sui generis that the age old problems of the rivalry between peoples and states can be overcome through it . |
| 12 | In view of the lengthy discussions on the nature of the deaf community , one might expect language attitude effects in learning sign language . |
| 13 | Given his belief that the idea that objects exist independently of a perceiving mind contains ‘ a manifest contradiction ’ , one might expect Berkeley to provide some explanation of why anyone should mistakenly have it . |
| 14 | The estimate for the two albums is £150,000–200,000 , and one might expect interest to be shown by an Italian State collection such as the Museo degli Argenti in Florence . |
| 15 | One might do things out of a self-loving pride , but this is not benevolence ; and though a benevolent person may gratify himself , this is not what he is aiming at , and is not the principle of his action . |
| 16 | She was the sort of woman to whom one might bring flowers or round boxes of Turkish Delight or strings of beaded sea-shells . |
| 17 | The particular nature of objectification can be illustrated by following the strategy of considering the counter-process One might imagine beliefs which turn the material world into non-material abstractions . |
| 18 | To read some of the ad hominem propagandizing directed against him in the post-war years , one might imagine Karajan was a great player in this awesome drama . |
| 19 | Thus , if making a rapid survey of the major elements in a group of coins , one might use X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy or a scanning electron microscope . |
| 20 | The following brief notes are indications as to how one might use drama both to stimulate and support work in specific curriculum areas . |
| 21 | Cabezón wrote such versos or versillos and it has been suggested that he was stimulated by the example of Arnolt Schlick ( see p.184 ) who also composed what one might call suites of versets , notably those on ‘ Da pacem Domine ’ in the first part of his Tabulaturen ( 1512 ) , without the choral alternation . |
| 22 | What strikes one about the names of the " few friends " is that there are so few of what one might call Islay family names . |
| 23 | in a sense that one might call women of the generation before yours mother , I 'm not sure . |
| 24 | What he tends to ignore , however , is what one might call value charged definitions which do not function as persuasive devices for modifying attitudes but serve simply to formulate , and perhaps endorse , combinations of descriptive and valuational meaning in ordinary usage which reflect widely shared attitudes . |
| 25 | She smiles apologetically , as though one might find fault , and looks anxious : clearly , she 's dying for her sister to take over the conversation . |
| 26 | In drama one might revise Bacon 's dictum to read , ‘ a lie shrinks from men but faces the audience ’ . |
| 27 | One might claim Simon 's heart was in the right place , but his head — so it appeared to Markby — was all over the place . |
| 28 | Now these kinds of accounts ( or perhaps one might say failures to give an adequate account ? ) of women 's lives are implicitly divisive and threatening . |
| 29 | One might add Ælfwine of Elmham , a monk of Ely in the nearby diocese of Dorchester . |
| 30 | The provisions relating to Economic and Monetary Union take the form of amendments to the EEC Treaty and therefore form an integral part of Community law ( even if one might have doubts as to the likelihood of the factual events which would trigger the final stage ) ; on the other hand , in the context of the provisions relating to political Union , a distinction was made between those matters which constituted amendments to the existing Community treaties , and those which fell outside the scope of the Communities , notably the provisions on a Common foreign and Security policy and those on co-operation in the fields of Justice and Home Affairs . |