Example sentences of "we might [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Philosophically , we might comment on the extraordinary qualities of Wordsworth 's perceptions . |
| 2 | In which case we might move into the shade and partake of some wine ? ’ |
| 3 | We might conceive of the aside as occupying a zone midway between the play and the audience ; we continue to experience the play , but we do so via the new information or attitudes given us by the character or characters speaking the asides . |
| 4 | As we might speak of the culture of the Hebrides , or as W. H. Rivers wrote of the culture of Melanesia , so we speak of the culture of the European West to describe a set of outlooks , aims and ways of life , which has a history in the past of Europe and has spread to other parts of the world . |
| 5 | The wholly negative tone of the passage is only what we might expect from the rest of the chapter . |
| 6 | The Saturday Review described the scheme as the ‘ sort of meagre and crude distribution of all the allotted space — and of a great deal more besides — into parallelograms , which we might expect from the speculative projector of Great Franklin Pierce City , Nebraska ’ . |
| 7 | Everything is suddenly in flux ; there are the physical changes — starting periods , changing shape and size , wondering what kind of figure we might have — and there are the changes of the outside world towards us : one day we might walk down the street and feel like a little girl ; the next , almost overnight , it seems impossible to avoid the glances , remarks and acknowledgement that we are somehow , in our mother 's words , ‘ becoming a woman ’ . |
| 8 | I have n't really asked you very many questions so I 'll , I 'll ask you a question which sets us up for a programme we might do in the next series , having discussed the wedding , next the honeymoon ! |
| 9 | I thought we might go to the War Memorial . ’ |
| 10 | I mean , Blackbeard must know we could 'ave recognized the man from the newspaper photograph , and that we might go to the police about it . ’ |
| 11 | Killing then might be regarded as a moral duty in certain circumstances in spite of the instinctive horror we might feel about the destruction of living beings . |
| 12 | We might think of the real essence of a triangle , ‘ three lines enclosing a space ’ , as instructions for making such a figure : it is how that figure is constituted . |
| 13 | Similarly , to take another case , we might think of the real essence of a circle , a figure which bears a constant relation to some one point , as an indication of how , along Hobbesian lines , to generate or construct one . |
| 14 | For instance , if we happen to witness the fall from the cliff-top proposed above , there are many other ways in which we might think of the action apart from using the word acrobatic ; we might describe it as athletic , agile , amazing , swift , cat-like , or we might employ any of an indefinitely large number of similes along the lines of with the speed of a gibbon . |
| 15 | And if this seems an exaggeration then we might refer to the aims of a document entitled ‘ Information skills in the secondary curriculum ’ which was the result of the recommendations of a working group sponsored by the British Library and the Schools Council , and which embodies most of the current thinking on user education in schools . |
| 16 | As a further illustration of an attitude almost indistinguishable from the principle of identity in Western thought , we might refer to the mystical approach to nature of the poet Wordsworth , who claims to have felt in nature : |
| 17 | We might refer to the former as ‘ classroom-oriented research ’ ( see Seliger and Long 1983 ) and the latter as ‘ classroom-centred research ’ ( see Allwright 1983 ) . |
| 18 | She is the sort of girl we might meet in the pages of a Barbara Pym — , a bit of a scholar , leading a spinsterly existence in a middle-class house in an English country village . |
| 19 | But I was determined to get her ready for anything we might meet in the great outdoors . |
| 20 | ( Just in passing we might reflect on the likely reaction in Curzon Street or around the Euston underpass if our own citizens took it into their heads to peer behind MI5 's muslin curtains . ) |
| 21 | If in five years time Middlesbrough are the richest club in the North but Darlington , Scarborough and Hartlepool have gone to the wall , we might reflect on the formation of the so-called superleague with some bitterness . |
| 22 | Here we might look at the question why Gandhi should lay so much stress on the interrelation of Truth and ahi sā . |
| 23 | And it is the exciting part of my job is to make these links work , start to build on them , and over our links in the city on the environmental and group with Tony Benn , that 's that 's doing a very good job , he is a platform for this , for each other , but I think there 's a lot more we can do locally erm within the city to build those links , and to work together for better answers for the city , and I hope that , on a practical level , one of the things that interested me was your grants team for local organisations , and I would like to think myself here today , we might look at the health authority , and try to join with them to make some erm practical contribution , particularly to those many carers , and groups of people who have problems , and we 're not all just professionals best able to put over during our normal nine-to-five or eight-to-eight days , we we can . |
| 24 | In this essay , I have attempted to suggest some ways in which we might look beyond the conceptual dichotomy between ‘ us ’ and ‘ them ’ , villagers and bureaucrats , to ask how the dynamic of interaction across the boundary is played out . |
| 25 | So we might add to the tripartite analysis the fourth condition that nothing can be known which is inferred from a false belief , or from a group of beliefs of which one is false . |
| 26 | For all that we might say about the relevance of performance indicators in financial reporting , a fundamental and seemingly intractable problem remains : performance can not be judged in terms of output alone , economy , efficiency and effectiveness must be judged together . |
| 27 | The pure flame of radical Christianity , we might say with the example of the Titfords before us , would be lucky indeed if it burned brightly for as many as three generations . |
| 28 | Can I Can I anticipate what er we might say in the bad taste bit then , did anybody think one was in in bad taste ? |
| 29 | My right hon. Friend will be aware that most Conservative Members accept that , while some taxes may fall on income and others on spending , there is scope for a modest tax to fall on what we might describe as the amenity of property . |
| 30 | The level at which this is pitched and the textual content naturally varies depending on the course and the contexts range widely : one day we might focus on the language of a rape victim in Panjabi ( which we roleplayed in Bedford Police Station ) , the next a simulated interview in Arabic on child abuse , and the next a Vietnamese patient explaining her persistent earache to the doctor , a symptom masking the deeper one , i.e. the trauma of being a refugee . |