Example sentences of "might say " in BNC.
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| 1 | Art is not alone in failing to conform contentedly to such chronological schemes , indeed , some might say that poetry or music are even less amenable . |
| 2 | The reverse of the coin is internationalism , a feature , some might say , of twentieth-century art ; not so uncommon either in other periods , where art historians struggle heroically to identify differences between the art of one country and another . |
| 3 | Except that ( and this is decisive in regard to the situation of the one-idea painter ) his format was private — almost , one might say , the framework of another self , or of himself in another form — and unavailable to others . |
| 4 | A bit gladiatorial , I suppose one might say — a sort of us and them feeling . |
| 5 | UK Fire Certificates might say hotels must have a warning system but might not specify the means , Mr Kidd said . |
| 6 | Quite the reverse you might say . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Out of character you might say ? ’ suggested the inspector . |
| 8 | If you put your tailplane on first , you might say , quite rightly , that this will not happen with your equipment . |
| 9 | Well , he might say that one mental sentence is , as it were , ‘ upfront ’ ( for example ‘ The spectacles are broken ! ’ ) , but that this sentence has a network of connections to other sentences in the mental architecture ( ‘ They are made of glass , ’ ‘ They were purchased ’ , ‘ They are not unique ’ ) . |
| 10 | Well this is all very admirable , you might say , and is n't the climbing world just as helpful and welcoming to one newcomer as the next ? |
| 11 | Yet these matters , it has been suggested , lie deep — indeed , unutterably deep — in every American psyche ; and it is good that from time to time the unutterable be uttered — it is , one might say , one of the things that we look to poets for . |
| 12 | The poem , we might say , is in two minds about itself and its own meaning . |
| 13 | It is , cynics might say , exactly the conclusion one would expect from scientists in the pay of the CEGB . |
| 14 | ‘ She is a qualified international referee and although the players are entitled to their opinions , I think they might say something different in the morning , ’ Foo said . |
| 15 | Some might say that typical annual percentage rates of around 24 per cent are crippling . |
| 16 | It is not entirely without foundation : holidaying on the cheap in such places as super-smart St Moritz , Zermatt and Gstaad is next to impossible , whatever the tourist offices there might say . |
| 17 | Next door , two elderly ladies from the Esperanto Society smiled more in hope than expectation at every preterpasanto — or passer-by , as you or I might say . |
| 18 | ‘ I might say this in closing , ’ he said , ‘ … as far as foreign policy goes , Mr Kissinger ( Mr Ford 's secretary of state ) has been the president of this country . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ Poetry begins , I dare say , with a savage beating a drum in a jungle , and it retains that essential of percussion and rhythm ; hyperbolically one might say that the poet is older than other human beings … |
| 21 | The sexuality of Rochlin 's youth is clearly governed — one might say overdetermined — by his relation to other males . |
| 22 | We might say that the narrator is being fucked by the same in the position of the other — a formulation intentionally ambiguous as to who exactly is in the position of the other , since it is both : the narrator is in the position of the woman being fucked by the other of woman ( man ) . |
| 23 | We might say that Love 's Cure produces transgression precisely in order to contain it , and in the most insidiously ideological way : the deviant desire which initially appeared to contradict nature is reconstituted by nature in accord with her ( ? ) order . |
| 24 | One might say that in him an old cultural dream — exoticism — donned progressive clothes . |
| 25 | Historians might say that in the twentieth century in Britain only the reforming administrations of 1906 and 1945 provided a major change in direction to be followed by administrations which consolidated the changes . |
| 26 | All very well , you might say , but there is nowhere to bloody well go . |
| 27 | In fact , a gadget like that turns chores into pleasure , you might say . |
| 28 | In practice we distinguish between the external cause of a rhythm , which is caused by our life-style or environment , and another internal cause , which we might say is due to a clock within our body . |
| 29 | There was no denying that the Soviet Embassy was large , enormous , one might say , making lilliputian a convoy of Russian lorries parked outside from which , mysteriously , soldiers in olive green and red were taking canteens of food . |
| 30 | Their range includes an Anti-Blemish cover-up cream — because , despite what they might say to the contrary , boys like to hide their spots , too ! |