Example sentences of "one might [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One might distinguish three kinds of policy areas in which a country either is or is not sovereign . |
| 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 | One might think such recordings would demand competent replay equipment for the listener to appreciate fully these touches of purist engineering — but systems do n't have to be ‘ high-end ’ and costing thousands of pounds to be able to hear a difference . |
| 7 | Ageist policies are sometimes advocated on the basis of compassionate and humanitarian concerns — perhaps one might regard this stance as reasoned ageism . |
| 8 | Accepting even a weak Whorfian view that language used influences thought and representation to some degree , then one might expect great differences in the way that deaf people structure information . |
| 9 | Developmental norms are an attempt to provide an indication of the ages at which one might expect ordinary children to show evidence of certain skills or abilities . |
| 10 | However , one might expect such opportunities to become more widespread as the number of such children supported in mainstream continues to grow . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | So one might expect chemical sensitivity to run in families , if enzyme defects are a common cause of the problem . |
| 13 | While one might expect eventual decisions to be made purely on the merits of the case , earlier evidence indicates that some objections are more likely to succeed in influencing decision-makers than others . |
| 14 | Where both husband and wife have substantial commitments to the job world , one might expect domestic responsibilities to be shared . |
| 15 | With such differences in the quantity and quality of mosaics one might expect different levels of stylistic affinity — and combinations of these levels — to be prominent . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Because of transport costs one might expect heavy building materials , such as cement , to be non-traded . |
| 20 | Even in these circumstances , where one might expect unemployed people to be net receivers , McKee shows that they give as well as receive and the list of what they give looks remarkably similar to the list of items which they receive . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | In consequence , one might make two predictions . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Thinking this to be the case one might infer that pleasure was the only good thing . |
| 25 | As one might imagine this method was maddeningly inconvenient and very inaccurate . |
| 26 | He writes : ‘ Speaking generally , one might pronounce these islands entirely destitute of wood . |
| 27 | One might focus particular attention on stress points in the day , perhaps where a mismatch of perception between individuals or even outright conflict occurred . |
| 28 | Mr Charsley 's prose owes a lot to the Open University — what one might call bearded functionality or poly-correct . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 ) . |