Example sentences of "[indef pn] might [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This body : his pride in it , I firmly speculate , is connected to the fear that someone might hurt it-might mutilate or demolish it . |
| 2 | OF ALL cell ingredients , one might guess that calcium was among the least important . |
| 3 | Sizes are imprecise , as one might suppose any material would be if drawn through a hole with a cutting edge ! |
| 4 | In view of all this , one might characterize second language pedagogy as a set of activities designed to bring about the gradual shift of reliance from one systemic resource to another for the achievement of indexical purposes . |
| 5 | Helen postponed telephoning , as one might hoard some delicacy , to savour it the longer in anticipation . |
| 6 | Ageist policies are sometimes advocated on the basis of compassionate and humanitarian concerns — perhaps one might regard this stance as reasoned ageism . |
| 7 | Because three-quarters of women with gonorrhoea will have the infection in the urethra , one might expect urethral discharge to be a common finding in infected women . |
| 8 | So one might expect chemical sensitivity to run in families , if enzyme defects are a common cause of the problem . |
| 9 | If , however , the vertical axis is defined as attainable competitive strength , then one might expect most investment to take place in the top left corner . |
| 10 | Examples are too numerous to list , but a particularly telling one from members of our own profession , where one might expect some awareness , can serve . |
| 11 | The use of inappropriate forms of assessment to grade and rank-order pupils ' work for the purpose of making comparisons or to achieve so-called ‘ unified standards ’ is illustrated by the worst abuses of norm-referencing , which has been roundly and justifiably criticized by many writers , even in those areas of the curriculum where one might expect this system to be welcomed . |
| 12 | Because of transport costs one might expect heavy building materials , such as cement , to be non-traded . |
| 13 | One might speculate that HCO 3 - secretion is mainly initiated by certain agents such as toxins from the luminal side , whereas hormones or prostaglandins , which normally act from the basolateral membrane of enterocytes , do not significantly affect HCO 3 - transport in man in vivo . |
| 14 | From this one might interpret ecclesiastical coinage as money originally minted for pious purposes , for alms and perhaps for tithe , which then moved into general circulation in a society in which many different types of coinage were accepted . |
| 15 | Thinking this to be the case one might infer that pleasure was the only good thing . |
| 16 | As one might imagine this method was maddeningly inconvenient and very inaccurate . |
| 17 | One might focus particular attention on stress points in the day , perhaps where a mismatch of perception between individuals or even outright conflict occurred . |
| 18 | Mr Charsley 's prose owes a lot to the Open University — what one might call bearded functionality or poly-correct . |
| 19 | One direction which interests me is the development of what one might call cognitive archaeology , if that is not too grandiose a term : using the material evidence from the past to allow us to begin to say something useful about the way peoples thought , the way they used communication systems , the way they used symbols . |
| 20 | Until the mid-1970s , what one might call public sector professional accounting practice had been promulgated by the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy ( which from 1901 — 1973 was known as the Institute of Municipal Treasurers and Accountants ) . |
| 21 | Where poetry involved the distinction between ordinary and poetic language , and narrative that between what one might call literary form and its non-literary content , literary history as conceived by the Formalists entails a distinction between automatized and perceptible form within literature itself . |
| 22 | In those of the 1640S he follows , though with less psychological insight and power of characterization , the way pointed by Monteverdi away from the ceremonial princely opera toward what one might call dramatic solo opera for the larger public : drama expressed mostly in expressive recitative monologue and lively recitative dialogue , with the brief ‘ arias ’ usually left to the minor characters . |
| 23 | Ours is not a kissing family — that is , what one might call social kissing ; but there was one person I always kissed , my husband 's Aunt Nesta . |
| 24 | From this , one might hypothesize that education is important in developing the intellectual skills necessary to absorb and make sense of political material communicated by other media . |
| 25 | In this respect Bukharin displayed the same indecision — one might say double thinking — that was evident on the part of many Bolsheviks when faced with the necessity of NEP . |
| 26 | Indeed one might argue that talk of Jesus as our ‘ brother ’ , emphasizing his humanity , makes Jesus more intrusively male than if one were casting him in the role of the cosmic Christ . |
| 27 | The way that erm one might have effective treatment for muscle invasive bladder cancer , if one uses radiotherapy , is maintain a decent oxygen supply to the tumour and if one uses chemotherapy to deliver the blood to the tumour . |
| 28 | But then again , one might forgive such callowness in gratitude for several gems in this otherwise disappointing report . |
| 29 | Toward the heart of the village one might see some Pipistrelle Bats flying aerobatically around the Kirk taking insects . |
| 30 | And I said the Leeds have told her I said that it was you know something might come this afternoon . |