Example sentences of "one might [verb] [art] " 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 | She hoped that one might eat the duck with the lovely hair . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | With a 75 pence pricetag these brightly coloured necklaces are the sort of gift one might give a child . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | On Charles Lyell 's side at first there was none of similar stature , though one might mention the great Goethe in Germany who was a keen amateur geologist and liked the gradual peaceful processes preached by the uniformitarians . |
| 10 | One might mention an object or a locality , and sepulchral silence would descend . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | One might prefer a priest or minister and sometimes retired clergy have both the experience and time for this sort of ministry . |
| 13 | Let us begin by considering how one might analyse the attitudinal function of intonation . |
| 14 | Here the customer can browse through picture boards devoted to each artist , selecting a style and price to suit , much as one might choose an haute couture outfit . |
| 15 | Almost , Sara thought , one might detect a certain amount of satisfaction in her tones . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | On one level , for example , one might cite the case of Molla Husrev 's appointment as kadi of Edirne . |
| 19 | As an instance of the former one might cite the case of Molla Ahmad b . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | In view of the potential benefits to be gained by local communities from providing food and accommodation and other requirements , one might expect every small town and village throughout rural Scotland to be demanding a long-distance recreational route on their doorstep . |
| 24 | One might expect a docile or sensible horse , or even a friendly one , to be willing . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | On analogy with subject access in social services and housing one might expect the governors to seek the consent of the person compiling the report and for such consent normally to be forthcoming since otherwise the record may clearly be incomplete . |
| 29 | Equally one might expect the full-time paid CAB worker , who normally eschews the middle-class volunteer , to cheer the broadening of the CAB volunteer base . |
| 30 | 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 . |