Example sentences of "one might [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was impossible to make Malm see that one might love the moor , enjoy walking , have become accustomed to the cold . |
| 2 | Most of the ideas , techniques and strategies described in Part Two hold good for working with young children , but it is worth devoting time to a specific discussion of how one might adapt the work on still image and forum theatre for use with this age group , as they are sometimes thought to be strategies that can only be successfully used with older children . |
| 3 | For example , one might observe the fact that nearly all the world 's languages have the three basic sentence-types : imperative , interrogative and declarative ( Sadock & Zwicky , in press ) . |
| 4 | One might avoid the objection , following R. M. Hare , by interpreting ‘ You do n't want to be sick ’ as itself prescriptive , a logical imperative equivalent to ‘ Do n't get sick ’ disguised by the grammatically indicative form . |
| 5 | So much so that the crucial coming of the Holy Spirit on Cornelius is recorded three times in Acts , so that no one might miss the message . |
| 6 | On one level , for example , one might cite the case of Molla Husrev 's appointment as kadi of Edirne . |
| 7 | As an instance of the former one might cite the case of Molla Ahmad b . |
| 8 | Out of a thousand possible illustrations of this point one might cite the testimony of William Smith the nineteenth-century publisher , on his first reading of the manuscript of Charlotte Bronte 's Jane Eyre . |
| 9 | Indeed overall , he says surprisingly little about Grace and next to nothing about the sacramental life ; for these reasons one might regret the title which he gave to the three books gathered into one — Mere Christianity — for it implies that he has written a sort of mini-Summa or encyclopaedia of theology . |
| 10 | Some of the early prisoners had regarded the Germans much as , afterwards in the pavilion , one might regard the football team to whom one had lost the match . |
| 11 | The proportion of any additional income that is saved ( the marginal propensity to save ) will tend to vary according to the tastes and preferences of the individual , and one might expect the proportion that is saved to increase as income increases . |
| 12 | In caricatures of the Coase-Williamson view , one might expect the firm to grow without limit , in the absence of the costs of overburdening bureaucracy . |
| 13 | One might expect the ad valorem duties to have risen with increasing prices . |
| 14 | Furthermore , of course , if the government did possess an important informational advantage there would be a strong incentive for the private sector to obtain the same information , so one might expect the advantage to be gradually eroded . |
| 15 | Like the values for Young 's modulus or stiffness , the figures vary a great deal between different substances , but then , so do the strengths of the chemical bonds within them and one might expect the engineering strengths to be proportional to the strengths of the chemical bonds . |
| 16 | One might compare the difficulty with that of trying to write rules for how one might indicate to someone of the opposite sex that one finds them attractive ; while psychologists and biologists might make detailed observations and generalisations about how human beings of a particular culture behave in such a situation , most people would rightly feel that studying these generalisations would be no substitute for practical experience , and that relying on a text-book could lead to hilarious consequences . |
| 17 | One might compare the position of Anatolian ‘ medisers ’ ( p. 19 ) . |
| 18 | One might compare the language of Thomas Hardy . |
| 19 | One might make the assumption that these are the same son of people who a few years earlier had enjoyed and had been moved by the pageantry of George V 's Jubilee and by George VI 's Coronation . |
| 20 | Once or twice , while the boy was squatting on the floor polishing the linoleum surround , he had playfully touched his head , as in passing one might pat the head of a dog . |
| 21 | And , as you frequently remind me , I do not know enough of the wicked world in which I live — so one might consider the Clarion Cry a useful means by which to educate me . ’ |
| 22 | So the only place to put such a black hole , in which one might use the energy that it emitted , would be in orbit around the earth — and the only way that one could get it to orbit the earth would be to attract it there by towing a large mass in front of it , rather like a carrot in front of a donkey . |
| 23 | ‘ I suppose , ’ Hawkins said , ‘ that that would be what one might call the grand-daddy of them all ? ’ |
| 24 | Yet if one observes this battle more closely one may see that it is waged around what one might call the ephemera of sex : what is seen , what is said , what is written rather than what is or is not concerned with sexual reality . |
| 25 | The anthropologist 's task is to map out this system , and , by using the tools of linguistic analysis , to draw up what one might call the grammar of the various cultures he encounters . |
| 26 | As Morton ( 1978 ) pointed out , a third input system ( for recognising pictures ) is needed : this kind of picture recognition system , which one might call the pictogen system ( or , more strictly , the input pictogen system ) was first discussed by Seymour ( 1973 ) . |
| 27 | Two were also Products of what one might call the orifice revolution , i.e. gaining entry to the inside of the body other than by cutting into it from the outside . |
| 28 | However there are no signs of a foreign policy debate being forced at the moment and one rather doubts there will be unless something dramatic happens so one might say the assassin failed … ’ |
| 29 | Throughout their married life she was a tremendous support , managing their everyday affairs , helping to organise his exhibitions on both sides of the Atlantic and allowing him the freedom — one might say the luxury — to paint without interruption . |
| 30 | To this one might add the comment that racism can compound the difficulties where Afro-Caribbean or Asian care assistants receive racist comments in their work from residents ( Norman , 1987b ) . |