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 mention an object or a locality , and sepulchral silence would descend . |
| 5 | One might prefer a priest or minister and sometimes retired clergy have both the experience and time for this sort of ministry . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Almost , Sara thought , one might detect a certain amount of satisfaction in her tones . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | One might expect a docile or sensible horse , or even a friendly one , to be willing . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | They have fired this interest by spending £44m on the issue , aiming it primarily at the retail investor when one might expect an issue of this sort to be more suitable for institutions . |
| 15 | Or one might expect an aggressive horse to be mean and uncooperative , but this is not necessarily true either . |
| 16 | An interesting possibility is that , with a wider tropical belt than at present , one might expect an equatorial hyper-tropical belt around the equator , with minimum temperatures not known in modern seas . |
| 17 | One might go a step further . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I had another good horse , and I thought well I 'll stick with that one , I think that one might stand a chance . |
| 21 | As the bears go after salmon , not sticks , one might make a powerful ally in the Fishermen 's War . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Danish war the wars in Denmark and Austria and Prussia one might imagine a rather short- lived er war . |
| 24 | One might write a witty and savage review for The Observer . |
| 25 | Say nr is the number of positions in this row where one might put a piece , according to the rules . |
| 26 | This illustrates how one might use a game : 1 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | So it is very difficult to achieve what one might call a set pattern in life . |