Example sentences of "might want " in BNC.
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| 1 | Enthusiasts for explanation , however , might want to explain that this ‘ darkness visible ’ tends to obscure and diminish what deserves to be understood , and that , for him , there are important countries and unimportant countries , and that the coups and riots of the latter are severely diminishable . |
| 2 | The District Council may offer to rehouse you if this is more suitable for you , and it is an option that you might want to consider . |
| 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 | Even an A-level student might want a little more in the way of interpretation . |
| 5 | In response to my attempts to historicize perversion it has been said : ‘ OK , we see how you might want to rescue homosexuality from the pejorative category of a perversion , but surely not incest or bestiality ? ’ |
| 6 | Also , whilst trade union leaders might want or need laws to strengthen procedures or ‘ conciliation ’ , this might well rebound , since the management side of the dispute supported by the misnamed National Association for Freedom ( NAF ) , will also be pressing for laws — but to curtail workers ' rights . |
| 7 | John Hancock , executive design engineer for the Engines Group division of Cosworth , said the engine received a lot of attention at the show in Detroit : ‘ We 've talked to a wide range of people who might want to use it , or derivatives of it , ’ he said . |
| 8 | Privacy ; Erika longed for it herself , often , but it occurred to her , for the first time , that her mother might long for it , too , might want it and , indeed , need it , and it dawned on her , also for the first time , that her mother had never had any privacy since the end of the War ; that all her life since then she had lived in small apartments , actually in one small room for long periods , and sharing even that room with others … . |
| 9 | But I do wonder whether it is really necessary for the London festival , or any other , come to that , to clear any South African film they might want to show not only with the ANC but also with the South African Film and Allied Workers Organisation . |
| 10 | About 10 per cent of solicitors — around 6,000 — might want to conduct cases in the higher courts , Mr David Ward , president of the Law Society , has estimated . |
| 11 | The Americans have long been eager for the Japanese to help Latin America 's economies , and mused that the Europeans might want to shoulder a degree of responsibility for Africa . |
| 12 | The uneasy feeling that , despite his claim to make things out of ideas , Berkeley has ‘ banished all that is real and substantial out of the world ’ , can be articulated by suggesting that , whatever philosophers might want to say about ‘ real things ’ , common sense will want to speak about them in ways which , at least at first sight , are not licensed by their being constructed out of ideas . |
| 13 | There were a lot of young drunks staggering about , too — most at that noisy and unattractive stage where they might want to be your pal or pick a fight or just throw up on you , so I gave them a wide berth . |
| 14 | Other seem to be trying to assuage a guilt known only to themselves , and a few are out to keep Ali a player , a lure to those who might want to use his name in business ; though the marketplace turns away from billboards in decline . |
| 15 | I might want to take one of me girl-friends out there one of these nights . |
| 16 | We Christians might want to interpret things differently , yet in his masterpiece , ‘ The Wreck of the Deutschland ’ , the Jesuit nineteenth-century poet , Gerard Manley Hopkins , found himself writing these lines : |
| 17 | ‘ I do n't want that cat in here , ’ Ma said , ‘ I might want to do all sorts of jobs and cat gets under my feet . |
| 18 | Mr Baker strongly criticised a call from Mr Ashdown for up to 4.5 million Hong Kong Chinese who might want to flee from a Communist regime after 1997 to be given the right to come to Britain . |
| 19 | Leslie thrust it into my hand , thinking that I might want to keep it — surely a prophetic gesture . |
| 20 | What the report does not mention is whether MI6 received any overtures from the KGB to exchange Blake , nor does it consider the possibility that the KGB might want to free an agent who served it so well . |
| 21 | The adoption should n't affect her , they should n't take her into account , but Kegan thinks they might want her token agreement , so I 've got to handle this right . |
| 22 | These too might want to alter priorities and wish to change the aims of the fund raising campaign . |
| 23 | I was afraid you might want out . |
| 24 | You might want that to happen one night . |
| 25 | These terms are only relative to the particular causal model in hand : in a different model we might want to explain what gave rise to the prior variable . |
| 26 | Oh yes , they might want to worship God but let's take one step at a time . |
| 27 | Of course you might want to take a very purist line and say that it is bad manners to remind others of their bad manners . |
| 28 | For example , heads might want to point out to governors : |
| 29 | We might , for example , find that in a particular residential area there are unexpectedly large numbers of households with ‘ lodgers ’ and so we might want to add this as a specific category in the household composition ; or we might find that on an attitude question views are rather more extreme than we had anticipated and so a new response category could be usefully put in to save us noting responses under ‘ Others , specify … ’ in many cases . |
| 30 | If somebody wants loving , pampering , I 'll pamper them , but the next day they might want to live as normal as they can . |