Example sentences of "[indef pn] might [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As someone might discard an empty mixifoam container . |
| 2 | However , in practice at present , there are certainly intermediate flows of which one might give a detailed description for one purpose and a statistical one for another . |
| 3 | On Charles Lyell 's side at first there was none of similar stature , though one might mention the great Goethe in Germany who was a keen amateur geologist and liked the gradual peaceful processes preached by the uniformitarians . |
| 4 | Let us begin by considering how one might analyse the attitudinal function of intonation . |
| 5 | Almost , Sara thought , one might detect a certain amount of satisfaction in her tones . |
| 6 | On the other hand , concurrent developments in semantics have isolated intractable phenomena of a parallel kind : presuppositions , speech acts and other context-dependent implications , together with troublesome phenomena like honorifics and discourse particles that had long been given short shrift in the work of generative grammarians Further , thought about the nature of the lexicon , and how one might construct a predictive concept of " possible lexical item " , has revealed the importance of pragmatic constraints ( see Horn , 1972 ; McCawley , 1978 ; Gazdar , 1979a : 68ff ) . |
| 7 | In view of the potential benefits to be gained by local communities from providing food and accommodation and other requirements , one might expect every small town and village throughout rural Scotland to be demanding a long-distance recreational route on their doorstep . |
| 8 | Thus , one might expect a similar kind of opening of the iron-free structure to expose charged ligands and to allow entrance of ferrous ions . |
| 9 | He says , One might expect a big man to have big bottles , but if you are giving a big dinner party its very practical to have magnums . |
| 10 | As with chimneys , so with synapses ; if they are constructed — or even reconstructed — during learning , one might expect a brief increase in the rate of synthesis of proteins over the time when an animal was being trained and memory was being formed . |
| 11 | Hence one might expect the orbiting gas to become more and more quiescent the farther it recedes from the stimulus of the ILR . |
| 12 | Hence , one might expect the middle class to opt for the political party most likely to conserve the existing state of affairs . |
| 13 | In such a situation , action is likely to be the product of internal negotiation , with variable dependence upon rational analysis , and one might expect the rational analysis undertaken to have a different orientation according to the stakeholder for whom it is performed ( Hall , 1973 ) . |
| 14 | Or one might expect an aggressive horse to be mean and uncooperative , but this is not necessarily true either . |
| 15 | One might offer the following reason why one could regard apine dance as having communicative significance lacking in the case of the bruise ; that the dance is a somehow ‘ arbitrary ’ or ‘ rule-governed ’ causal product of the sighting of food . |
| 16 | Or ( as cited above ) , one might hold a particular performance as a ‘ reference ’ , which gradually exerts such an influence that any newcomer simply does n't stand a chance . |
| 17 | As the bears go after salmon , not sticks , one might make a powerful ally in the Fishermen 's War . |
| 18 | Otherwise one might make a statistical correction or even hope that its effect is small , i.e. discrimination might be good enough even when light is lost due to blocking . |
| 19 | But I think trick or treat itself , maybe has got a bit perhaps distorted from what one might imagine the American idea originally was . |
| 20 | Balanced against this view one might consider the limited liability offered through trading as a company so advantageous in the event of the business failing that a company is the preferred form of trading . |
| 21 | One might consider the primary choices for domestic policy to be those affecting autonomy , security , efficiency and the distribution of wealth . |
| 22 | Rather , he asks for what one might term a systematic study of the structural constraints of ‘ seeing-as ’ , a study which would illuminate our own subjective life as well as enabling us to say something about the experiences of alien creatures . |
| 23 | ’ 'That 's what one might call a loaded question , Miss Lightbody . |
| 24 | That was what one might call a pre-poll tax consensus . |
| 25 | Brancusi was almost a peasant when he arrived in Paris but he looked behind appearances at a more profound reality , which one might call the eternal reality in things . |
| 26 | In a strategy pioneered by the affluent-worker study in Luton , which one might call the optimal-case approach , a site was chosen for the research which was not representative , nor claimed to be , but was particularly germane to the topic of the investigation . |
| 27 | So far as the whole personality does not fall victim to the pressures either of the external environment or what one might call the internal environment of its own parts — in the form of various lusts and obsessions — it achieves its only conceivable goal , that of prosperous possession , in the fullest manner , of its own nature . |
| 28 | I had thought that there had been a really massive shift from what one might call the public sector into the private sector . |
| 29 | A slightly more complex form of the crime short story , and one which can pay considerable dividends in reader enjoyment , is what one might call the plain puzzle story with a solution coming from cunning detective work , both by the sleuth and the reader . |
| 30 | ‘ Virtually all the staff appear to be foreign , sir , other than what one might call the old retainers . ’ |