Example sentences of "[pron] might [verb] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In that connection , I might mention that Jesus Christ was evidently pretty au fait with micro-technology . |
| 2 | I might add that Filmer 's notion of dominion as originally granted to Adam included both ownership of property and authority over men and here Filmer was trading on erm erm the feudal tradition of erm property erm erm erm dominion erm entails that if you have property rights in a certain tract of territory you also have political authority over the people inhabiting that or that territory you know , think of a straightforward standard lord of the manor and his service you know , he has property rights in the territory , he also has authority over erm the individuals who live off that territory . |
| 3 | I might add that Idris rang me up last night , I was on the telephone for about three quarters of an hour with him . |
| 4 | Accept this sketch of what has just happened , and you might conclude that Mr Clinton 's presidency is over . |
| 5 | These are the sort of things you might suggest that people give you for your birthday , Christmas or other religious celebration . |
| 6 | If you 're young you might think that cushions or even a thick rug will be fine for sitting on but not everybody would be happy — or able — to put up with this and certainly older people would prefer something more comfortable . |
| 7 | Being with the band for 12 years you might think that Marlene would get fed up with their music . |
| 8 | You might think that Young and Helmholtz were wasting their time using psychophysical procedures when improvements in physiological techniques would allow direct measurements of this sort . |
| 9 | To listen to many authorities on nutrition , you might think that eating is an exact science . |
| 10 | You might think that E is so important to you that it 's ten , and that 's quite alright you can do that . |
| 11 | Whereas you might think that access to the top of the fingerboard would be pretty straightforward with a double cutaway , in practice the lower cut is just not deep enough . |
| 12 | You might answer that pressures on existing JS Journal staff prevent the crossword being a regular monthly item — but there must be many JS staff [ like myself ] who have experience of compiling crosswords , and I am sure that we could provide a steady supply of crosswords ready for publication — with the proviso , of course , that the person who has compiled that month 's crossword is not eligible to send in an entry to the competition . |
| 13 | ‘ You might say that Chung Kuo is filled with such men — blind , wicked , greedy creatures who see their blindness as strength , their wickedness as necessity , their greed as historical process . ’ |
| 14 | You never know , you might find that work is a grand panacea . ’ |
| 15 | One might suppose that Heatley said very little , that Chain was excited , and that Florey 's reported comment ‘ it looks quite promising ’ would be entirely in character' . |
| 16 | But as it has taken five years of intensive lobbying to assemble the necessary financial support from the native industry for this interesting if rather Teutonic initiative , one might assume that creativity and innovation are still not regarded as entirely positive values . |
| 17 | From this book one might assume that BCCI was primarily a US operation . |
| 18 | One might surmise that Dame Sirith was written to create and fill a brief space of moral relaxation for an audience who knew well both the moral and the social conventions the tale plays with . |
| 19 | Therefore , although one might think that hours of work would be a matter for internal national control , it will be dealt with by the Community if it can get the subsidiarity principle interpreted in that way . |
| 20 | One might think that clause 2 is insufficient : to believe that p is not so strong as to be certain that p , and to know one must be certain , not just believe . |
| 21 | One might think that matter could not be compressed that far . |
| 22 | One might expect that women 's paid work would have the most profound effect on the domestic division of labour : the more work a women does outside the home , the less she is able to do within it . |
| 23 | One might expect that differences in the level of regional income and employment would be accompanied by a migration of labour into the more prosperous regions . |
| 24 | One might imagine that Jean-Claude would have done all he could to dissuade Montaine from decamping . |
| 25 | One might say that attitudes can be discovered post hoc . |
| 26 | In general one might say that Law has become marginally less distinct from other subjects than it was in that quite a few people are doing cross disciplinary research , e.g. in law and economics and law and society . |
| 27 | To differentiate , one might say that Persians held the British more responsible for Iran 's misfortunes , but the Russians were more feared . |
| 28 | At the risk of stating the obvious , one might say that de Gaulle won his quarrel with Pétain because he correctly predicted the course of the war and Pétain did not . |
| 29 | One might say that Barthes was examining the social representation of Einstein , yet to say this might be to use ‘ social representation ’ in a loose sense . |
| 30 | One might argue that Montini , who had more ‘ on-the-job ’ training for the office of pope and was intellectually better prepared for it than anyone since Benedict XIV in the eighteenth century , became pope too late to give of his best . |