Example sentences of "one might [verb] [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | One might suggest that the vibrancy in the Philippine health movement is a measure of the critical nature of the struggle but I could argue that it is a product of the manner in which the struggle is being waged . |
| 2 | One might suggest that the support service which the team gives to families has been developed largely because it was an " unclaimed " service area , as it were . |
| 3 | Done in the Jamesian manner , Jim would doubtless find himself credited with psychological subtleties and complexities of which he is quite unaware ; but still one might hope that the writer would succeed in suggesting the highly distinctive flavour of his talk , his inimitable way of retailing a diverting anecdote leisurely and with a modicum of circumlocution , from which in due time the point of the story is sure to emerge . |
| 4 | Cynically one might observe that the articulate have seized the opportunity to use schools more politically than ever before , disadvantaging still further the already disadvantaged . |
| 5 | Although one might suppose that the creation of a new party offers attractive opportunities for people previously excluded from local élites to establish themselves as leaders , it is often the case that such people do not obviously possess the right qualities . |
| 6 | All the long survivors show every sign of flourishing today : one might suppose that the tortoise will continue its lumbering progress no matter what catastrophes may come to pass in the future . |
| 7 | Such spectacular animals have obviously attracted much attention , and one might suppose that the problem of how they lived would have been satisfactorily solved long ago . |
| 8 | The McCormick organisation has not been slow to seize on this fact and in future one might suppose that the Hierarchy will have learned from this . |
| 9 | One might suppose that the greater that number , the greater also the number of votes a party ought to receive . |
| 10 | Again , one might assume that the change of position occurred without any feelings of attitude-change or dissonance . |
| 11 | Thus one might think that the possibility of spontaneous proton decay could not be tested experimentally . |
| 12 | At a moment like this , one might think that the single market should dominate the Community thinking , but that is not so . |
| 13 | Since as Jack Droney put it , Brent , with its left-wing trade unionists , ‘ was a bloody good place for the Grunwick strike to happen ’ , one might expect that the union involved had given the strikers not only support but increased impetus in their struggles , but members of the strike committee certainly did not feel this to be so . |
| 14 | As a simple response one might expect that the US could try to frustrate this Soviet purpose . |
| 15 | In the absence of controversy about the institution of monarchy , one might expect that the consensual British attitude would be one of unthinking acceptance . |
| 16 | From the analogy with the surface of the earth , one might expect that the end of the universe would be similar to the beginning , just as the North Pole is much like the South Pole . |
| 17 | One might expect that the speech of both the narrator ( who here has the role of shop assistant on till duty ) and the obstreperous customer would both be reported in the same code : either London English or Creole , since both are young black Londoners . |
| 18 | One might remark that the working-class child considered it redundant to constantly refer to the presence of a picture since he knew that the researcher was present and could see it for himself . |
| 19 | if , during a dictation practice , the majority of students have an abnormally high number of spelling errors , one might infer that the teacher has either dictated too fast or chosen a passage too difficult for the level of that class . |
| 20 | From such comments as these one might infer that the British were anxious to buy time until the Soviets acquired sufficient nuclear power to persuade Washington to become more cautious . |
| 21 | One might claim that the signer is simply being flexible . |
| 22 | Intuitively , one might claim that the need for completeness which is satisfied when are angry is added to residents in ( 2 ) is of the same order as that experienced when waiting for , say , the splash of a stone thrown out over the sea , or for the arrival of food in one 's mouth when one has watched it being prepared . |
| 23 | ‘ Poetry begins , I dare say , with a savage beating a drum in a jungle , and it retains that essential of percussion and rhythm ; hyperbolically one might say that the poet is older than other human beings … |
| 24 | One might say that the ‘ candid camera ’ technique used for some television programmes , where people have tricks played on them for the benefit of the viewers , is rather in this mode of observation , though it is to be hoped that social researchers would not encourage people to make fools of themselves in the way television producers do . |
| 25 | Tolkien tried the experiment in Treebeard 's farewell , and maybe he failed ; though one might say that the image behind the phrase works well for Fangorn , whose sense of ultimate loss naturally centres on felled trees and barren ground . |
| 26 | One might say that the feminist problem is that one can not simply speak of the one nature without the other . |
| 27 | In theory one might say that the problems have always been there and we have now just started to recognise them . |
| 28 | In fact , one might say that the article , with its defence of National Front thinking and its attack on liberalism , is reinforcing the value that one should be unprejudiced , for both the attack and the defence are based , in essence , upon deciding who should be called ‘ prejudiced ’ . |
| 29 | From a rhetorical perspective one might say that the monarchy is not defended in terms of its own monarchical common-places , but in terms of other common-places . |
| 30 | The conditions producing weakness in this respect are highly complex but at a risk of oversimplification one might say that the balance of payments constraint reflects a relative ‘ industrial ossification ’ of the British economy — a failure to restructure and reinvest on a sufficient scale to maintain the position of the national economy on the world market . |