Example sentences of "might say [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was I therefore to assume that homelessness was an issue peculiar only to Apex members within the G M B or was I to reach the alternative , and I might say equally ridiculous conclusion , that despite its majority of women membership , toxic sock , shock syndrome was not of particular interest to Apex members ? |
| 2 | Unlike some of the self-deluding egotists who have played football alongside him , he was a simple and some might say painfully honest man . |
| 3 | Clearly , what a study of society might look like is closely , one might say intimately , related to not only the phenomena but also the data relevant to those phenomena . |
| 4 | And it was right for John Gummer , Minister for Agriculture , to be regularly , some might say infuriatingly , optimistic : ‘ It would be quite wrong for him to go round wringing his hands . ’ |
| 5 | On 5 September 1818 , James Hamilton , grocer extraordinaire and showman by nature gave the first public commercial showing of the new ‘ light-brackets ’ by installing ‘ sex jetties ’ , or six of the ‘ wee lights ‘ , as we might say today . |
| 6 | At the moment , ‘ history is made without being known ( l'histoire se fait sans se connâitre ) ’ — history constitutes , we might say today , a political unconscious . |
| 7 | Constantly in the full beam of the media spotlight , she has transformed ( some might say effortlessly , but they 'd be wrong ) from ‘ Shy Di ’ to ‘ Dazzling Di ’ to ‘ Caring Di ’ . |
| 8 | One might one might say one might say rarely . |
| 9 | Somebody once said that if angelism , sharing the gospel was one beggar telling another beggar about bread , where it could be found and undoubtedly when he was saying that he was thinking of that story that account that we had read to us earlier from the second book of kings , chapter seven , and I 'd like us to er turn back to us for a few moments this morning and perhaps draw some lessons for ourselves Sometimes as Christians its very easier for us to say what sins are , and we can see other people 's failings , you do n't have to be a Christian to do that of course , plenty of other people can do that , they see the failings of other people , they see the wrong doing they do , they see their wickedness their , their waywardness , whatever words we want to use to describe it , and we say well that is sin , perhaps for most of us this morning we could make er a list a , a , a tabulate a table of sins and we might say well they are worse sins and there are lesser sins and I would I suppose by and large there would be a fairly reasonable consensus of opinion regarding what was sins and what were not sins . |
| 10 | And you might say well I 'll not take their advice I 'll invest it directly with Global and you 'll find that cos Global 'll keep it for themselves . |
| 11 | But it so happens , you might say well all these years retired I ca n't be much good at the job , you 'll be interested to know that I give talks to groups which include retiring tax inspectors . |
| 12 | They issue an er they issue an annuity , which is erm er if you 're not sure what an annuity is , this is a temporary annuity , and they might say in the case of Miss they might say well what about a ten year annuity ? |
| 13 | Competency you 're looking at your receptionist now , because you 've identified the key tasks you might say well what 's the standard on these things , how good is she at passing on messages etcetera ? |
| 14 | Then what you might say is well what ar y'know erm you might say well s one define aggression , two define one theory , define the other and then y'know just structure it so you 're talking about single or sentences maybe on on a line that go down to very little but enough to show how you would go about answering the question . |
| 15 | might say well just do it the end of the year . |
| 16 | They might say well , put new in , you know , but gon na save them an arm and a leg and maybe we can ah , either negotiate something definite or |
| 17 | but , but , you know if say well look , you know , we could do with twenty five and he turns round and he might say well you know , yo he might say no |
| 18 | But , you know , you ca n't , you might say well this teacher does n't have such good displays on her wall , but then she might be ever so good at another area , I mean is not a display lady , she does n't have artistic creative sort of flair like say Polly did |
| 19 | Well , undergraduates getting very , very drunk and , you know , throwing up and leaving pools of vomit around for staff to clear up the next day erm , you know , one might say well are the college staff the victim of that . |
| 20 | I know some people listening to this in this area might say well do we need so many tourists . |
| 21 | Now of course , some people might say well the Iranians er have n't covered themselves with glory one way and another in the last few years , and that of course , is true . |
| 22 | No cos he might say tomorrow . |
| 23 | And they might say alright . |
| 24 | Well you do n't know I mean you do n't know , you might say right twenty grand and then he might say oh no I 've re-considered I want twenty two and then he might say I 'm not gon na turn up . |
| 25 | cos it could be a case of , you know , waiting twenty-six weeks to tell us , then we might say right , we now start the twenty-six weeks deferred . |
| 26 | He might say now that he put his wife and child first ; he might even think it . |
| 27 | Not that , I think , anything he might say now would affect the case … ’ |
| 28 | May cost you just the , the cost of replacing the fuse or they might say there you are my dear , okay , no extra charge . |
| 29 | And what has happened over time is that , in the twentieth century , with the advent of two world wars , with the impact of the worst economic depression that the world 's ever seen , with the rise to global dominance , both economic and military , indeed one might say culturally , the rise to global dominance of the United States , the scale and er scope of the U S executive branch has grown and with it an increasing er attention and focus on the presidency . |
| 30 | So some people might say perhaps perversely that it th it has achieved its desired effect , it 's toughened you up . |