Example sentences of "[adv] we might [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So we might reorganise the parts like this : introduction biographical details ( including career as a London playwright ) qualities as a writer — powers of description — humour themes — education — church — the divided self — most of all as an artistic movement centrally concerned with the relationship between the self and others . |
| 2 | For example , in our manufacturing example , increasing exports reduces home sales and so we might use the criterion that exports should be as close as possible to their goal : 12 . |
| 3 | Thus we might expect the instrument not to be sufficiently sensitive for these conditions and so not for a growth room . |
| 4 | Second , we might see something right about that theory of meaning or something wrong about it , and use this to determine our attitude to foundationalism in general ; thus we might avoid the need to consider all the different varieties one by one . |
| 5 | Thus we might propose the following broad arrangements within facets : |
| 6 | More generally we might ask the following : |
| 7 | He might not be quite the regal material the Tongan people were looking for , and as his wheezing old father — born in 1918 , still fit , but neither infallible nor immortal — tottered around the herbaceous borders , I fancied , or perhaps dreaded , that soon we might see the kingdom fall and a republic rise in its place , and the monarchy he represented fall victim to the spirit of the age , as ancient and outworn as Captain Cook 's old tortoise . |
| 8 | Who knows , someday we might see the Minsterley and Shropshire-Montgomeryshire lines restored as light railways to solve Shrewbury 's commuter problems ! |
| 9 | Equally we might accept the temporal regress caused by supposing that for each moment in time there is a moment that precedes it , or the causal regress derived from the propositions that every event has a separate cause and that every cause is an event . |
| 10 | The starting point is a redefinition of the goal of discipline , and here we might heed the words of Allan Fromme : |
| 11 | In the same way the Chief Superintendent of Police may be concerned to define strategic goals for the police force as a whole while the individual police constable may need to exercise leadership in an operational situation and direct others in that situation. , Here we might use the term ‘ street-level ’ leadership . |
| 12 | If there is any truth in the observation that , in many things , Britain tends to follow one step behind the United States , then we might expect the single interest group to have a real impact in this country in the future . |
| 13 | In deciding what we are going to settle for — or in choosing from alternatives — then we might set the priorities and satisfy as many of the most important ones as we can . |
| 14 | For example , if the category can take the values 1 to 7 , the factory number can be 01 to 11 , the product type can be 01 to 37 , and the number of products in the type can range from 001 to 999 , with 147 being the largest required at present ( the number varies with type ) , then we might have the following runs of continuous numbers made up of the digits representing the category , factory , product type and number of products : |
| 15 | If we are interested in young mothers , then we might try the Register of Births , and ask for a list of all recent births that have been registered . |
| 16 | Before considering how we might do the job mathematically , let us just draw in a line by eye , to go through the centre of the data points . |
| 17 | In considering drama 's place in topic work , we have to start by thinking how we might dramatise the topic ; and that means seeking out human dilemmas , looking for the moments of change in a situation , or the moments when change might be possible ; we 're looking for those moments when people make choices . |
| 18 | Here , we describe the range of activities commonly carried through by the Scotch Whisky companies before considering , in Section 3 , how we might measure the employment they support . |
| 19 | No such event occurs in Shakespeare , of course , and my use of this model is meant to stimulate thought about how we might classify the many shifts between verse and prose that take place in Shakespeare , most frequently in the middle-period plays . |
| 20 | Back on the country roads there was more time to play with the switches , and wonder how we might stop the heated seats giving us sticky shirts ( no luck , though Swedish efficiency doubtless means that this was our fault ) . |
| 21 | We wondered how we might stop the heated seats giving us sticky shirts . |
| 22 | A brief account of Bourdieu 's notion of ‘ habitus ’ provides an example of how we might assimilate the apparent paradox of an external physical world which is nevertheless in a more immediate relationship with the unconscious than the world of articulate symbolism . |
| 23 | Here we plotted how we might keep the peace when venturing beyond the wrought-iron gates . |
| 24 | Knowing that this is the explanation of the meaning of ‘ It 's afternoon ’ we can see how we might use the term ‘ afternoon ’ on another planet , such as Mars . |
| 25 | George finally saw this last week and agreed to buy a new one , although not until 1997 when we might have the money . |
| 26 | Of course the parallel between ontogeny and phylogeny can not be carried the whole way through — prehistoric human beings did not look like newborn babies — but there are various reasons why we might expect the early stages of embryonic development to have some relation to the early stages of our evolution . |
| 27 | I 'll tell her anyway otherwise we might have the sack . |