Example sentences of "[indef pn] might [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As someone might discard an empty mixifoam container . |
| 2 | How can we allow for the possibility that someone might request an opinion antagonistically , by picking on someone who does not want to speak ? |
| 3 | I was n't dependent on coke , any more than it was nice to have a line after a heavy day — just like someone might have a glass of wine . |
| 4 | ‘ I just wondered why somebody would bother to come way over here , unless they were meeting someone , privately … or hoping someone might take the hint and follow them . ’ |
| 5 | I thought someone might get a couple of black eyes or something . |
| 6 | Somebody wants a single bed moving , somebody might want a chest of drawers moving , somebody wants some packages so there were there 's quite a lot of of work of that nature wanted . |
| 7 | It was impossible to make Malm see that one might love the moor , enjoy walking , have become accustomed to the cold . |
| 8 | Most of the ideas , techniques and strategies described in Part Two hold good for working with young children , but it is worth devoting time to a specific discussion of how one might adapt the work on still image and forum theatre for use with this age group , as they are sometimes thought to be strategies that can only be successfully used with older children . |
| 9 | She hoped that one might eat the duck with the lovely hair . |
| 10 | For example , one might observe the fact that nearly all the world 's languages have the three basic sentence-types : imperative , interrogative and declarative ( Sadock & Zwicky , in press ) . |
| 11 | For example , one might face a situation in which the fact that water more readily gave the desired values of the governing parameters ( its lower kinematic viscosity is often advantageous in this respect ) had to be set against the practical difficulties of containing it in an arrangement with movable probes . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | With a 75 pence pricetag these brightly coloured necklaces are the sort of gift one might give a child . |
| 14 | One might avoid the objection , following R. M. Hare , by interpreting ‘ You do n't want to be sick ’ as itself prescriptive , a logical imperative equivalent to ‘ Do n't get sick ’ disguised by the grammatically indicative form . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | One might mention an object or a locality , and sepulchral silence would descend . |
| 17 | So much so that the crucial coming of the Holy Spirit on Cornelius is recorded three times in Acts , so that no one might miss the message . |
| 18 | One might prefer a priest or minister and sometimes retired clergy have both the experience and time for this sort of ministry . |
| 19 | Let us begin by considering how one might analyse the attitudinal function of intonation . |
| 20 | Here the customer can browse through picture boards devoted to each artist , selecting a style and price to suit , much as one might choose an haute couture outfit . |
| 21 | Almost , Sara thought , one might detect a certain amount of satisfaction in her tones . |
| 22 | Some of the students look up at the word ‘ castration ’ , admiring the cool poise with which Robyn pronounces it , as one might admire a barber 's expert manipulation of a cut-throat razor . |
| 23 | Out of a thousand possible illustrations of this point one might cite the testimony of William Smith the nineteenth-century publisher , on his first reading of the manuscript of Charlotte Bronte 's Jane Eyre . |
| 24 | On one level , for example , one might cite the case of Molla Husrev 's appointment as kadi of Edirne . |
| 25 | As an instance of the former one might cite the case of Molla Ahmad b . |
| 26 | Indeed overall , he says surprisingly little about Grace and next to nothing about the sacramental life ; for these reasons one might regret the title which he gave to the three books gathered into one — Mere Christianity — for it implies that he has written a sort of mini-Summa or encyclopaedia of theology . |
| 27 | 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 ) . |
| 28 | Some of the early prisoners had regarded the Germans much as , afterwards in the pavilion , one might regard the football team to whom one had lost the match . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | One might expect a docile or sensible horse , or even a friendly one , to be willing . |