Example sentences of "we might find " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead , we might find that performance is improving just before bedtime , and deteriorating after sleep . |
| 2 | It seems to allow that , although we must begin and end with appearances , we might find it possible and advantageous in doing so to interpose conjectures about their hidden causes . |
| 3 | We might get the nod there and stay or we might find nothing going on . ’ |
| 4 | We might find it hard today to agree on a description of the differences between women and men — and perhaps they are less marked than we used to think . |
| 5 | However , we might find the same relationship among all sections of society by 2006 ; breaking unjust laws might become the hallmark of the less educated of all ages . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Hence we might find instances of accuracy in the production of such formulas as fixed phrases but it does not follow that the learner can transfer the accurate production of forms to a wider range of constructions and contexts . |
| 8 | The situation was changing so fast and we hoped we might find ourselves in this situation . ’ |
| 9 | When they discovered a pair of woman 's shoes they decided to hunt for more clues , even joking that ‘ we might find a body . ’ |
| 10 | It was once thought that tool users might have a more complex and sophisticated nervous system than other animals , and that by studying them we might find out something of significance about the human race itself . |
| 11 | For example , we might find that the experiences of children in care differ according to the circumstances surrounding their entry , so that grossly abused children may stay longer and occasionally be adopted , while offenders might return to their parents after a relatively short spell in a residential establishment . |
| 12 | We carefully skirt the small island of Kayholm where I know there are a couple of otter holts , and if is a lucky day we might find one out fishing . |
| 13 | We might find , for instance , that ‘ analytic thinking ’ of the kind they describe , free of interpersonal bias and meaning what they say with little or no room for interpretation' is no more apparent within university institutions and the formal school system than within other social institutions . |
| 14 | In a practical case , we might find an intermediate form for the matrix C of ( 3 ) to be ( we shall discuss the meaning of x and y ) unc Now suppose |
| 15 | if we sort through all the work sheets we 've got we might find you know |
| 16 | I mean we might find that we 've got a problem with members generally getting paid |
| 17 | We might find an account of what knowledge is which would suffice to undermine crucial sceptical moves , and hence confirm the possibility that some of our beliefs are justified ; the account to which I give tentative support in chapter 3 has pretensions in this direction . |
| 18 | We might find that it is indeed the case that the use of ‘ But ’ at the beginning of a paragraph as described by van Dijk ( 1977 : 139 ) , is a very general marker of topic change . |
| 19 | On the Corniche we asked a traffic policeman in a white booth where we might find a hotel . |
| 20 | Tell me , child — ’ he concluded mildly , ‘ — is there a chance that we might find some alternative mode of address towards one another , or does your capability for restraint exclude all the intimate forms usual between parent and child ? ’ |
| 21 | If we manage to sort out the syntactical problems , we might find that in the end the other issues will get sorted out of themselves . |
| 22 | But er who knows we 're probably here for another two years , we might find a dead body somewhere . |
| 23 | if I do that you 've all got to scatter and we were really worried about what we might find . |
| 24 | We buy theatre tickets and have the restaurant booked when , if we stopped and checked what we actually wanted to do , we might find we would much prefer to stay at home and have an early night . ’ |
| 25 | We enquired at the bar as to where we might find a sailmaker . |
| 26 | Within the same department we might find more than one of these criteria in evidence . |
| 27 | In local government we might find groups composed of councillors , officers , local businessmen and women , client groups , voluntary agencies , all attempting to get their views accepted . |
| 28 | On the gain side we might find that a choice which seems very attractive does actually miss out on an important priority . |
| 29 | ‘ We might find the other exit . |
| 30 | Models provide the possibility of predicting where we might find settlements and indicate some ways in which the contemporary landscape might have been exploited . |