Example sentences of "might be [verb] say " in BNC.
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| 1 | Caught inextricably in that cycle , with pregnancies to confuse and exacerbate the situation , Elizabeth Titford 's body finally gave up the struggle in June ; with tragic inevitability , we might be tempted to say , looking back with the advantage of hindsight . |
| 2 | You might be tempted to say — ‘ If the ORCS are that good in a recession , watch our in a boom ! ’ . |
| 3 | That , that 's a sensible kind of conclusion to draw and perhaps this would meet Kirsty 's point as well , because the what you might be tempted to say is look erm , in our cultures we have , we have absorbed from our cultures ways of seeing the world , bits about history and things restructure our thoughts and even when we try and do something new , I 'd say let's have a revolution everybody , put up your barricades , you know , actually we had some great fun in the sixties with that erm the , when this happens there 's a tendency to nevertheless do it in the traditional way , in other words although obviously the sixty eight revolution was about a completely different issue than the seventeen ninety eight revolution , it was very much later in history . |
| 4 | Some might be tempted to say in touch with reality , but I think I 'd prefer on this occasion to say in touch with another dimension of reality . |
| 5 | Beth stood alone , a quiet solitary figure , heavy with child , biding her time until she might be called to say goodbye . |
| 6 | I must say erm I , I do wonder whether the district council might be enabled to say unless goods are sold from a car boot this is not a car boot sale er , therefore , we would put a ban on all commercial vans and vehicle entering these sites er that 's not being articles described in the er in the er maybe that 's something you could look at . |
| 7 | For example , a child might be told to say ‘ She sells sea shells on the seashore ’ and be reinforced if her response matches the model utterance . |
| 8 | While they might be expected to say this , most do not admit to it . |
| 9 | Britain , always cool about the Community 's ambitions , might be expected to say told-you-so . |