Example sentences of "we might want " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | There are a number of reasons why we might want to omit the subject . |
| 5 | However , for us to improve our ability to control corporate crime , it is first necessary to grasp just what it is we might want to control . |
| 6 | If a yogi could tell us at any given moment what his digestive organs were doing , in chemical terms , and some constant monitoring apparatus attached to his intestines confirmed everything he said , then we might want to say yes ; for the performance would seem to show just that immediate awareness of goings-on that we think of as intuitively necessary for a Conscious process . |
| 7 | The fact that the Wolof turn out to be less ‘ logical ’ when in their own environment than when in contact with European influences just happens to follow from the tests , whatever we might want to believe . |
| 8 | There are many contradictions therefore in the relationship of women to housing , and in the demands that we might want to make . |
| 9 | Regarding international aid , we might want to observe that the International Fund for Ireland has only recently produced a ‘ disadvantaged areas initiative ’ . |
| 10 | Such a store address is a new type of information that we might want to deposit as the contents of a word . |
| 11 | Or we might want to know how cold it is to the nearest °C , in which case we have no choice . |
| 12 | When we are reading Ant ; s pants on page 102 we might want to know why Ant tries to trick Fatty and Louise instead of just telling the truth . |
| 13 | And I told him we might want him again this afternoon . ’ |
| 14 | It is difficult to say where we might want to purchase land . |
| 15 | As I understand our responsibilities and obligations in Europe , we no longer have the freedom of movement that we might want in terms of banning imports . |
| 16 | " 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 . |
| 17 | Right so there 's a thought that somehow democracy ought to be self-justifying erm the well I mean quite a long way actually two types of justification of democracy , instrumental and erm Mill is defending democracy surely instrumentally and we might want to say democracy has its justification of freedom and equality . |
| 18 | Now , there are good reasons why we might want to do that , but in economic terms you 'll reduce the net welfare of the economy , or the world simply because you 're diverting resources away from efficient modes of production into inefficient modes of production . |
| 19 | For example , where pragmatics is construed as the study of grammatically encoded aspects of context , we might want to say : ( 18 ) f(s)=c where c is the set of contexts potentially encoded by elements of S i.e. f is a theory that " computes out " of sentences the contexts which they encode Or , alternatively , where pragmatics is defined as the study of constraints on the appropriateness of utterances , we could say : ( 19 ) f(u)=a where A has just two elements , denoting the appropriate vs. the inappropriate utterances i.e. f is a theory that selects just those felicitous or appropriate pairings of sentences and contexts — or identifies the set of appropriate utterances Or , where pragmatics is defined ostensively as a list of topics , we could say : ( 20 ) f(u)=b where each element of B is a combination of a speech act , a set of presuppositions , a set of conversational implicatures , etc. i.e. f is a theory that assigns to each utterance the speech act it performs , the propositions it presupposes , the propositions it conversationally implicates , etc . |
| 20 | What this approach makes especially clear is that while we might want to say that the meaning of ( 17 ) remains constant across different occasions of utterance , the proposition that it expresses if Joe Bloggs utters it is different from the one it picks out if Sue Bloggs utters it . |
| 21 | Now I was talking to your Doctor who was wondering whether we might want to go out for a few beers at some point |
| 22 | that this will happen , people will come to us occasionally and say , do you need money for what specific and I think , as a committee we must have a future , a list for the future of things we might want and also of ideas we have . |
| 23 | . O K anything else that we might want to say around those things , that go off . |
| 24 | An and he 's taking up what might , we might want to or , or what could be portrayed as restorationist as being revolutionary where I , I 'm not sure that it fully was a revolution er a and I you see what Mao is saying is that there would have been a class basis for all of this , they were doing it as a class of peasant , they might not have been , they might have been doing it just for restorationist purposes . |