Example sentences of "you might think " in BNC.
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| 1 | The end of the last chapter was , you might think , a suitable place to end the book , but it was n't , properly speaking , the end of my blue period . |
| 2 | Curious subject matter for a children 's picture book , you might think , and hardly guaranteed to win the approval of the gimlet-eyed children 's book world . |
| 3 | The affliction is not as rare as you might think . |
| 4 | ‘ You might think that I would have been happy to go on improving my golf handicap , ’ he said . |
| 5 | Four Hearts , on the other hand , was not a success although the play did not go quite as you might think . |
| 6 | You might think the only safe course is straightforward , sound , economic government and you might wonder therefore why so rarely in recent years Governments have practised it , except when they have been hit over the head by external forces and events that they could n't resist . |
| 7 | But before you go that way — real joy lies at the end of each bus trip to the east -it is compulsory , or so you might think , to visit Þingvellir . |
| 8 | If she is an educated girl you might think there would be careers open to her but only three are available — teacher , doctor or nurse ( although even nursing is disapproved of ) . |
| 9 | A. ( touching her face ) Because if someone 's black , if you touch them in the face you might think your face might get black . |
| 10 | Reinforced concrete is an example , and is not as irrelevant to motorised transport as you might think . |
| 11 | ‘ It was n't what you might think . |
| 12 | Take Birmingham City , who you might think could hardly afford to alienate more of their fans . |
| 13 | Nothing wrong with that , you might think , even if it does represent more than 70 times last year 's earnings — a price-earnings ratio of Japanese proportions . |
| 14 | A happy compromise between the needs of family and work , you might think , but the end result is a sharp downgrading in the work returning mothers do . |
| 15 | Great news , you might think , for Aunt Agatha , who had begun to fear that , instead of taking young Billy Whizzquid 's advice and putting her savings under the professional management of a unit trust , she would have done better to put them under her mattress . |
| 16 | Good news , at least , you might think , for that industry 's rivals , the investment trusts . |
| 17 | A better way to get the same result , you might think , would be to adjust Hong Kong 's currency , not its price tickets , by vigorously upvaluing the Hong Kong dollar against the American one . |
| 18 | So you might think few firms would opt for the formal route . |
| 19 | In South Africa , you might think just about everyone owns a Rottweiler — especially if you read the small ads in the papers , where owners lament their loss and sign themselves ‘ Devastated Rotty Lover ’ . |
| 20 | You might think there was something wrong with you if you did not enjoy this form of dedicated slavery but at least a woman had someone to share it with : her husband — and that third party in almost every educated parental home , Dr Benjamin Spock . |
| 21 | That sounds simple , but it 's not quite as straightforward as you might think . |
| 22 | You might think all is serene and calm , which on the surface it is . |
| 23 | All elementary precaution , you might think , but when it comes to franchises people tend to let emotion influence their judgment . |
| 24 | All this , you might think , would be enough for any playwright but , with reckless abandon , Shadwell keeps flinging further ingredients into his rich comic stew . |
| 25 | A penny novelette plot you might think , but Susan Hill deals with the themes of love and jealousy with such delicacy and such understanding of what might happen but never does that this , her first novel for 16 years , is equal to her best . |
| 26 | Not much new to be said about Richard Strauss 's Elektra at this date you might think , but you would be wrong . |
| 27 | Looking quickly at paintings such as Pounding Foam or A Winter Sea , you might think they were expressionist works by Jackson Pollock or Willem de Kooning . |
| 28 | Strangely , these scenes do not name the church as you might think ; that honour goes to a fresco by an unknown sixteenth-century artist , the Madonna of the Passion , in the fifth chapel on the right . |
| 29 | you might think you have it all planned but have you ever set up a studio before . |
| 30 | A great advertisement , you might think , for the use of steroids — except that at that time she did n't use them . |