Example sentences of "we might [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By capturing it , we might hope to resolve sub-millimetre details of the solar surface ! |
| 2 | Or we might hope to define justification in terms of knowledge . |
| 3 | Third , and of more practical importance , we now knew where to look for any further changes ; by being able to concentrate on IMHV and LPO and discard ‘ irrelevant ’ tissue we might hope to magnify any effect we were studying by diminishing background noise . |
| 4 | We might 'ave 'ad another funeral , ’ she wept . |
| 5 | Similarly , the event that we might choose to label as ‘ the beginning of the universe in imaginary time ’ would be an ordinary point of space-time , much like any other . |
| 6 | Benjamin and Elizabeth and their family belonged , in effect , to what we might choose to call the ‘ comfortable working class ’ ; they benefited from the general rise in Britain 's prosperity in Victorian times — cheaper food and clothing , better sanitation , faster transport , more substantial housing — but their money still had to be earned , had to be worked for . |
| 7 | " I 've never seen her crying over her lot , Luke my lad — whatever we might choose to call it . |
| 8 | But if we change our own scarcity belief , so that money flows more freely into our own lives , we have reduced — by one — the number of people in the world who struggle over money ; and we might choose to use some of our wealth to help others — not out of guilt , but out of love . |
| 9 | It does n't look as though Steve 's going to get my job so we might start to have problems with things like your season ticket if we 're not careful . |
| 10 | Thus we might expect to move gradually to a more participative or laissez-faire approach . |
| 11 | This is in direct contrast to what we might expect to follow according to the inductivist view , namely , that in order to establish the truth of some problematic observation statement we appeal to more secure observation statements , and perhaps laws derived inductively from them , but not to theory . |
| 12 | Labour is said to be in terminal decline because we have failed to identify , let alone appeal to , a natural constituency we might expect to provide us with majority support . |
| 13 | If it is the simple physical characteristics of a stimulus that play the key role in generalizations about behaviour , then we might expect to find patients who have lost the ability to lip-read and lost the ability to judge expression , but not patients who have lost only one of these two abilities while retaining the other . |
| 14 | We might expect to find difficulty in relating , for example , the average length of prison sentences to the incidence of the crimes for which they are imposed ; but to be at a loss to trace any clear connection between the prospects of being executed for murder and the prevalence of the crime of murder is startling and impressive . |
| 15 | Thus we might expect to find that the giving of grades has a crop of side effects peculiarly its own . |
| 16 | As the young owls had fledged , he said that we might expect to find them anywhere in the area , and that the best idea was for us to fan out and scan the branches . |
| 17 | We might expect to find a source of order and sense of confidence in the home , but for these particular people this was just not so . |
| 18 | But we have noted ( 4.1 ) that creative users of language often overstep these limits to produce original meanings and effects ; and that the limits of the code are uncertain , even in grammar , where we might expect to find them determined by clear cut rules . |
| 19 | We might expect to find regularities in the roles team members play in relation to the visionary , but this has yet to be established . |
| 20 | Mother wept to see Father 's state , and proposed that we set out for Chiguana , the nearest town where we might expect to find a hospital , immediately . |
| 21 | In this category we might expect to find phonological and grammatical features which are sufficiently different from British English to be salient , but which do not involve , in J.C . |
| 22 | If I started on a catalogue of what is going wrong with the world , let alone what we might do to put it right , there would be no end . |
| 23 | A very tight rein was held on all staff , it was as if they were very nervous and suspicious that we might go made and accept a bid ! |
| 24 | We might decide to go to her house . |
| 25 | 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 |
| 26 | ‘ And then there was always the possibility that we might decide to keep Jane Pargeter after all . ’ |
| 27 | We might feel tempted to say that Wittgenstein 's account may be true of sensations ; but that there is no such thing as a sensation of blue , and so there is no reason why a private linguist could not start by naming the way things look to him before moving on to the more difficult talk of the way things actually are . |
| 28 | With the war now raging in the Middle East we might feel tempted to question such certainty . |
| 29 | If only we had something of the social sense they had in Germany , we might manage to give our young people the experiences they ought to have … [ in Germany ] the rambling movement … [ has ] reached enormous proportions — 2,500 hostels provide shelter for 6d per night … . |
| 30 | " 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 . |