Example sentences of "we may wish " in BNC.
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| 1 | Words are not the only type of information we may wish to include in a computerised record of museum collections . |
| 2 | His conversion to Islam , his rejection of that faith and the subsequent , troubled period , when the disease had made him all but unrecognizable to any but a few close friends , are things we may wish to pass over today , but — ’ |
| 3 | Secondly , because proportions are bounded numbers , we may wish to distinguish differences between proportions in the middle of the range from those between extreme proportions . |
| 4 | So , although we may wish that the monster would stop sprouting new heads , it is entertaining to look at some of the blind alleys of the past , most of which were investigated quite seriously at the time . |
| 5 | In some circumstances we may wish to solve unbalanced problems ( ) . |
| 6 | Now we may wish to assume that an accuracy order is the same as an acquisitional order , but such an assumption is not warranted by the evidence , it is based on the speculation that language learners will reveal what they know , that their performance will be a reflection of their competence . |
| 7 | In some cases we may wish to compare the categories themselves such as the advanced/underdeveloped dichotomy , in order to illuminate any evolutionary aspects of industrial relations . |
| 8 | In relaxation we may wish to monitor brain wave activity using an electroencephalograph ( EEG ) and would expect to find a shift in brain wave pattern toward synchronized high voltage , low frequency waves as the client relaxes . |
| 9 | If they do , then we may wish to explore this issue of ideology to see whether socially dominant groups use their power to impose ideas and patterns of behaviour on their subordinates . |
| 10 | Word-order patterns fulfil a number of functions in all languages : syntactically , they indicate the roles of subject , object , etc ; semantically , they indicate roles such as actor , patient , beneficiary ; communicatively , they indicate the flow of information ( however we may wish to represent this : in terms of theme/rheme , given/new or communicative dynamism ) . |
| 11 | Since we may wish to use our laws to transform an inefficient program to an observationally equivalent efficient one , our notion of equivalence will be independent of the times at which events occur . |
| 12 | However , we can by no means stick slavishly to such a rule , for good harmonic flow needs variety in spacing intervals , and in any case we may wish to avoid smooth harmony and have something pungent , harsh , and bitter . |
| 13 | However , we may wish to use a different set of criteria : |
| 14 | A political culture — given that government takes place within a political context then we may wish to consider the political dimension as the most important . |
| 15 | We are concerned about some issues and we may wish to raise them again later in the Bill 's progress to safeguard the position of all nurses throughout the 1990s . |
| 16 | It could be that at some future date we may wish to consider running DOS-based PCs from a Unix file-server , but it is preferable that we leave this as a possible option at the moment , rather than a definite commitment . |
| 17 | Apart from incurring onerous legal fees , we may wish to change our name with the resultant costs of redesigning and reprinting stationery followed by the marketing of our new title . |
| 18 | with the caveat that , in the light of your Lordship 's judgement we , we may wish to and change , erm first of all with regards to the commission , your Lord , your Lordships taken |
| 19 | For example , we may wish to pass both the retail price and the discount percentage . |