Example sentences of "[pron] we might [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 're nothing , of ourselves we might have thought we had but it was of no value whatsoever , but he took us , he says , now you 're something because you belong to me . |
| 2 | There are three points at which we might invoke questions relevant to portraiture as a genre by way of establishing parameters for a discussion of Auerbach 's JYM series . |
| 3 | This is exactly the kind of picture which we might want to save from a screen paintbrush job ; lovely blends of colour , subtle shades and shapes , and not a straight line anywhere . |
| 4 | " Power " , for example , is an ordinal attribute in which we might want to talk about individuals having " more " or " less " power than others and to reflect this in using the power of numbers to reflect " more " or " less " of some attribute in the same way that a higher number score on a test signifies a greater ability to do the test than a lower number . |
| 5 | On the basis of experience then , we recognise types of communicative events which take place against the background of a mass of below-conscious expectations also based on past experience which we might summarise , following van Dijk ( 1977 : 99 ) , as ‘ the ASSUMED NORMALITY of the world . |
| 6 | In the case of hearing and touch this is clear ; strictly speaking , what we hear is not a coach in which we might travel , but rather its noise . |
| 7 | However , a few such are heavily elaborated culturally , and I propose that an examination of these is one means by which we might achieve an understanding of Chewong ‘ peacefulness ’ . |
| 8 | This is not merely a question of allocative efficiency , which we might answer by considering the resources tied up in looking after the sick or the extra output that healthier workers could produce . |
| 9 | It considers the way in which we might make a reality of the observation ( by Keith Joseph ) that ‘ the curriculum should be relevant to the real world and pupils ’ experience of it' by considering the range of challenges and opportunities which people face in , say , the domestic environment , often regarded as too trivial for ‘ academic ’ education , but where arguably most important economic , technical and social decisions are made and acted upon : in the community where a host of issues require an informed public to exercise judgment and active commitment to ensure that the quality of the social and physical environment is constantly improved , and so on in other contexts which will require people to make an active and hopefully informed response , underlain by conceptual understanding of general issues to which , if taught effectively , geography , history , physical sciences and design , indeed all academic disciplines , can make a powerful contribution . |
| 10 | The Saturday Review described the scheme as the ‘ sort of meagre and crude distribution of all the allotted space — and of a great deal more besides — into parallelograms , which we might expect from the speculative projector of Great Franklin Pierce City , Nebraska ’ . |
| 11 | As I have already indicated , there are broadly speaking two kinds of insight of potential relevance to language teaching which we might expect linguistics to provide . |
| 12 | In these circumstances to talk of the inner city may be to accept a vocabulary which we might prefer not to endorse but it might also use the only language in which we can be heard . |
| 13 | We 'd be very grateful if you 'd let us know what you think of the magazine and the ways in which we might improve it . |
| 14 | Recall that we assumed that the nominal quantity of money in the economy , m t , was determined in the following simple way : where g is a known constant ; and v t is a random , serially uncorrelated variable with mean zero , which represents the unpredictable component of the quantity of money , and which we might think of as arising because of , say , faults in the government 's monetary control techniques . |
| 15 | For instance , if we happen to witness the fall from the cliff-top proposed above , there are many other ways in which we might think of the action apart from using the word acrobatic ; we might describe it as athletic , agile , amazing , swift , cat-like , or we might employ any of an indefinitely large number of similes along the lines of with the speed of a gibbon . |
| 16 | After much study Hahnemann came to the conclusion that the basic underlying causes of chronic diseases were what he termed the inherited miasms , a term which we might translate into modern parlance as inherited predispositions . |
| 17 | Studies of cognition which seek to elucidate the nature or that cultural order which we might impose upon or recognize in the world may well be concerned with the classification of objects , but they generally fail to acknowledge , let alone address , the difference between artefacts such as cutlery which already incorporate categorization in their manufac-turer , and objects such as trees which do not ( e.g. Rosch 1978 : 30–5 ) . |
| 18 | It is therefore necessary to use some sort of classification to sort out the various ways in which we might approach the problems of observation . |
| 19 | The next possible commemorative year on which we might hang an Open Day and other celebrations would appear to be 1999 , marking 300 years since the Royal Charter was granted to James Sutherland ( 12 January , 1699 ) . |
| 20 | However , although he says this , partly to emphasise that the truth of the matter is quite independent of the question whether we know it , it would seem reasonable to expect that , if there is a real truth here into which we might have rational insight , careful attention to just what is at issue will bring about convergence . |
| 21 | To which we might add the question whether the book he read is still there . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Bibliotherapy , which we might define as the systematic and informed use of reading in the treatment of psychological problems , requires a volume to itself and will not be developed here . |
| 24 | That night over a pretentious dinner ( ‘ delicate strips of milk-fed veal on a bed of herbs and accompanied by a tangy aromatic sauce specially prepared by our chefs ’ ) in a pretentious modern hotel and fortified by a bottle of local plonk , my Producer John Reynolds and I resolved to telephone the Palace Chamberlain in the morning , say that owing to a technical fault the film was not usable , and did the king have a spare hour in which we might shoot the interview again ? |
| 25 | One was a range of curious vases shaped like birds and animals , amongst which we might include the Myrtos Goddess vase . |
| 26 | Naturalists shower us with intriguing accounts , both anecdotal and experimental , and their range tends to put in perspective the sense , if any , in which we might wish to claim that some were consciously purposive and others not . |
| 27 | Wait for a suitable moment and say : " That is a very interesting point you have raised , Mr R. , which we might wish to take up at a later meeting , but I really do n't think it helps our problem at the moment . " |
| 28 | The sort of applications which we might wish to make in the future would be for an example that an interim payment be made out of the money in court or that the money be transferred to the public trust office , we do n't know how we should proceed yet , but if we are at liberty to apply generally |
| 29 | Faults which we might see as trivial would create the same scandal and outrage as criminal behaviour does in our society . |
| 30 | Nor does he consider that animal behaviour might provide us with prototypes of human understanding on the basis of which we might consider something akin to different language-games , reflecting both the similarities and the differences implicit in the respective cases . |