Example sentences of "we might [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We might distinguish three possible answers . |
| 2 | ‘ Was it your impression , ’ he asked Meh'Lindi , ‘ that Carnelian was performing a lightning calculation as to whether we might stand any chance of still saving Stalinvast if we jumped back into normal space ? ’ |
| 3 | We might explain this by saying that whether the natives will assent or dissent to S will depend normally not only on their present situation but also on the other beliefs which they bring to that situation . |
| 4 | Or we might move this forward here |
| 5 | If , then , we define the first aim of college as being to provide an intellectual training in the useful arts , we might leave both schools to continue their debate on what exactly constitutes usefulness in a rapidly-changing economic and social world . |
| 6 | We might expect that aggressive fighting would be common in nature , because natural selection will favour the most successful animals in competition , and the strongest animals are probably the most successful in fights . |
| 7 | As Foresman ( 1986 ) suggests , we might expect remote sensing technology to play a major role . |
| 8 | We might expect such a king to have been beatified upon his death ( his ancestor had been St Arnulf ) but Charles ' indifference to Christian morality prevented this . |
| 9 | Having seen that there is an a priori case for some governmental interference , we will pass on in chapter 3 to applications of the theory of the firm to regulated situations — how we might expect such firms to behave . |
| 10 | First that , in the absence of special strengths , and on the basis of external restraints , we might expect such companies to perform worse than a plc . |
| 11 | We might expect such a recognition to be especially difficult in strong cultures , where investment of self in the work of the firm is most profound . |
| 12 | If true , we might expect male peeking rates to increase as the number of females in the flock increase . |
| 13 | We might expect this to be lower than the effect of being in the service class . |
| 14 | Theoretically , we might expect this to be so , since the same environment tends to support the same kind of organisms , but in fact the persistence of some fossils appears to go far beyond what we know at the present day . |
| 15 | Thus , using a plural in a continuation based on the verb + with conditions , where we might expect some sort of strain , does indeed produce a reliably higher number of continuations using both . |
| 16 | Not surprisingly these features are principally confined to the cities of the province , though we might expect some form of provision at those sites where water transport clearly played a part in moving bulky products like building stone or pottery ( p. 43 ) . |
| 17 | The net effect will vary according to the cost conditions within the particular industry under consideration , and within the real world we might expect considerable variation from one industry to another . |
| 18 | If this is true we might expect paired males to be more vigilant than bachelor males . |
| 19 | We might extend this in many church investigations to state that even when the statistics prove your point , your next course of action is to gather yet more statistics . |
| 20 | When we 've actually given you the full thing in , the minutes , the mights , and where and whatever , you can look at it and say hey , there 's too much of that but what we 're addressing is the moral aspect of a child 's upbringing that perhaps we should be and say well right fine er , it might , I 'm just taking on environmental , right , now the year children to do environment there , but it 's really happening down there , I feel that these children in the past have n't he so can we take that out this year and bring in something totally new , totally different that you feel should go in erm so that it is more rationalised it 's not just my people doing what they want when you see the , the whole thing you can make suggestions and we come back and go back through it again we actually say to the form teachers this is what this will definitely happen for this term but when we 've looked at the whole five year sa side we might change some things . |
| 21 | We were allowed to take the boat out ourselves by then as long as we wore life-jackets and we thought we might do that , later ; get in some fishing or just some pottering around . |
| 22 | We might do one day or see |
| 23 | And that 's what 's happening at the moment , because we 're not sitting down and saying , I mean , this is my worry about oh we might do this there , that 's why I want it tightened up because at the end of the day we start , we have various modules at a later date , two , three years time whatever we might decide to sling out but it should really be designed , worked upon so that the incoming person can use it as a basis given their limitations |
| 24 | What people said , the things that happened , what we might do next Saturday night — that kind of thing . |
| 25 | I thought we might do some studying together . |
| 26 | Rather , we might infer first that the potential of collaborative tasks needs to be more fully exploited ; second , that the conditions in which children are expected to undertake solitary tasks may frequently be inappropriate . |
| 27 | We might feel inclined to say : Well , that is a pity , but it would be a greater evil to interfere ; it would be worse to make the law uncertain than to leave a particular hardship unredressed . |
| 28 | but you know we , we might feel cold when we get in at first , oh we have n't been in long before it 's warm is n't it ? |
| 29 | We might pay some of the mortgage off and er er , if there 's any you know , we sort of keep some in there . |
| 30 | I think we might manage that . |