Example sentences of "one might [vb infin] a " in BNC.
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1 | For example , one might face a situation in which the fact that water more readily gave the desired values of the governing parameters ( its lower kinematic viscosity is often advantageous in this respect ) had to be set against the practical difficulties of containing it in an arrangement with movable probes . |
2 | However , in practice at present , there are certainly intermediate flows of which one might give a detailed description for one purpose and a statistical one for another . |
3 | With a 75 pence pricetag these brightly coloured necklaces are the sort of gift one might give a child . |
4 | One might prefer a priest or minister and sometimes retired clergy have both the experience and time for this sort of ministry . |
5 | Almost , Sara thought , one might detect a certain amount of satisfaction in her tones . |
6 | Some of the students look up at the word ‘ castration ’ , admiring the cool poise with which Robyn pronounces it , as one might admire a barber 's expert manipulation of a cut-throat razor . |
7 | On the other hand , concurrent developments in semantics have isolated intractable phenomena of a parallel kind : presuppositions , speech acts and other context-dependent implications , together with troublesome phenomena like honorifics and discourse particles that had long been given short shrift in the work of generative grammarians Further , thought about the nature of the lexicon , and how one might construct a predictive concept of " possible lexical item " , has revealed the importance of pragmatic constraints ( see Horn , 1972 ; McCawley , 1978 ; Gazdar , 1979a : 68ff ) . |
8 | One might expect a docile or sensible horse , or even a friendly one , to be willing . |
9 | Thus , one might expect a similar kind of opening of the iron-free structure to expose charged ligands and to allow entrance of ferrous ions . |
10 | As with chimneys , so with synapses ; if they are constructed — or even reconstructed — during learning , one might expect a brief increase in the rate of synthesis of proteins over the time when an animal was being trained and memory was being formed . |
11 | He says , One might expect a big man to have big bottles , but if you are giving a big dinner party its very practical to have magnums . |
12 | One might go a step further . |
13 | Or ( as cited above ) , one might hold a particular performance as a ‘ reference ’ , which gradually exerts such an influence that any newcomer simply does n't stand a chance . |
14 | He placed his hand on the plinth as one might lay a hand upon a sacred object so that its virtue might flow from it to oneself . |
15 | I had another good horse , and I thought well I 'll stick with that one , I think that one might stand a chance . |
16 | As the bears go after salmon , not sticks , one might make a powerful ally in the Fishermen 's War . |
17 | Otherwise one might make a statistical correction or even hope that its effect is small , i.e. discrimination might be good enough even when light is lost due to blocking . |
18 | Danish war the wars in Denmark and Austria and Prussia one might imagine a rather short- lived er war . |
19 | One might write a witty and savage review for The Observer . |
20 | Say nr is the number of positions in this row where one might put a piece , according to the rules . |
21 | This illustrates how one might use a game : 1 . |
22 | Rather , he asks for what one might term a systematic study of the structural constraints of ‘ seeing-as ’ , a study which would illuminate our own subjective life as well as enabling us to say something about the experiences of alien creatures . |
23 | The scene shifted and I found myself at the head of a stairwell , aware that yet another place might be reached but only by somersaulting over the banister and walking my feet down the opposite wall as one might descend a defile in a crag . |
24 | To reiterate the point , the main concern of this discussion has been to locate certain strategic possibilities , as well as constraints , in relation to the currently dominant structures of capitalist property , or in other words to argue the mutability of the economic class relations of possession and separation from the conditions of production in what one might call a ‘ non-millenarian , manner . |
25 | So it is very difficult to achieve what one might call a set pattern in life . |
26 | ’ 'That 's what one might call a loaded question , Miss Lightbody . |
27 | There was no attempt by either Salisbury or Kilmuir to use what one might call a prefect 's influence on the opinion of those they interviewed . |
28 | That was what one might call a pre-poll tax consensus . |
29 | One must be worthy , an intense purity and refinement of thought is required , even one might say a kind of holiness . ’ |
30 | One might add a further definition of ‘ triple jeopardy ’ — they are old , mostly women and black , or in some way culturally distinct . |