Example sentences of "might [be] [verb] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | What results from this is that we might be led to think that the problem with defining God is that there is a whole range of ideas about the divine being that tend to produce no very clear overall picture . |
| 2 | Certainly they talk of other gods , but the nature of these gods is so different from that of the god whom Jews and Moslems are to follow that we might be tempted to deny that these others are gods at all . |
| 3 | One might be tempted to argue that the photon is absorbed by the microscope and that by measuring the latter 's consequent recoil , due to acquiring the photon 's momentum after its collision with the electron , we could evaluate this momentum as accurately as we wished . |
| 4 | ‘ As well I know , ’ he said , ‘ or I might be tempted to thrash that cur beside you until he is senseless for what I hear that he has been saying about London of me and mine . |
| 5 | The outsider might be tempted to assume that scientific ecology was inspired by the growth of environmentalism in the late nineteenth century . |
| 6 | This is such a formidable list that we might be tempted to assume that research and higher education must at least be species of the same genus of activity , even if not actually identical . |
| 7 | Since it is not easy to see a distinction between their characteristic properties and some essence from which they flow , one might be tempted to think that , when Locke speaks of a coincidence of their real and nominal essence , he means that the notion of a real essence does not really apply to modes . |
| 8 | After Falstaff or Malvolio or Parolles , we might be tempted to think that dissimulation can lie known , exposed , or controlled , without much harm being done . |
| 9 | Confronted with such a situation , with no sure indication as to how , if at all , a satisfactory clarification of particular identity might be found , we might be tempted to think that the best course to follow is to try and see if we can make do without relying on this awkward and intractable concept . |
| 10 | In such works , 3/2 on its own frequently follows a passage in , which might be seen to imply that the change to 3/2 was indicating a sesquialtera relationship . |
| 11 | In Roman art or in an 18th century Temple of Worthies ( such as the one at Stowe ) the rules of rhetoric might be invoked to argue that the bust functions as synecdoche , the head standing in for the whole physical and active domain of the body . |
| 12 | Where there is limited net asset cover , the vendors might be asked to warrant that they are not aware of any information relating to the target which has been knowingly withheld , the disclosure of which might effect the decision of the purchaser to proceed . |
| 13 | An example in relation to which the opponents of the ordination of women might be expected to agree that they were making use of such a methodology is the case of slavery . |
| 14 | His uncertainty over what he had and where it might be seemed to indicate that he only drank when he entertained , and that he did n't entertain very often . |
| 15 | This might be taken to imply that each Board should be financially self-supporting . |
| 16 | This might be taken to imply that the surgery had prevented one side of the brain from attempting to assume control of the mechanisms for speech output . |
| 17 | Taskopruzade 's statement about the three posts is ambiguous in this respect , although his assertion that Molla Fenari was unable to make fair copies of a number of his works because of his duties as kadi , muderris and Mufti might be taken to imply that he held the posts simultaneously . |
| 18 | To say that [ 18a ] and [ 18b ] are simply alternative ways of communicating the same message might be taken to suggest that the decision whether to make the assumption about house-warming parties explicit conveys nothing at all . |
| 19 | This analysis might be taken to suggest that examples like [ 12 ] and [ 30 ] should be analysed as self-corrections . |
| 20 | Thus in [ 30 ] the speaker might be taken to suggest that he did not mean that his childhood days had just gone : what he really meant was that they had vanished . |
| 21 | By further describing it as a ritual , the author might be taken to suggest that it was also part of an ongoing practice governed by unalterable rules . |
| 22 | ‘ Those words , read literally , might be taken to indicate that the order for possession in itself deprived him of the protection of the Act . |
| 23 | The provision as drafted is not entirely clear , and the use of the words " is not of itself to be taken " might be construed to imply that some other type of truly voluntary acceptance could override s 2(1) or 2(2) by the operation of the rule . |
| 24 | The merit of separate qualified defences is that they focus the evidence and the legal argument , giving the jury ( in contested cases ) an opportunity to assess the defence , and giving the judge fairly precise guidance on the basis for sentencing : this might be thought to ensure that each defendant is dealt with more fairly , but the risk of confusing the jury in a contested case might tend to erode that protection . |
| 25 | Nevertheless there are incidental details in Gregory 's account which might be thought to suggest that some , if not all , of these atrocities are rightly placed ; for instance Gregory states that Clovis had Chararic tonsured , which , if true , implies that the Merovingian himself had already been converted . |