Example sentences of "we might [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | No such event occurs in Shakespeare , of course , and my use of this model is meant to stimulate thought about how we might classify the many shifts between verse and prose that take place in Shakespeare , most frequently in the middle-period plays . |
| 2 | They avoided our glances as if we might bestow the evil eye . |
| 3 | A brief account of Bourdieu 's notion of ‘ habitus ’ provides an example of how we might assimilate the apparent paradox of an external physical world which is nevertheless in a more immediate relationship with the unconscious than the world of articulate symbolism . |
| 4 | So we might reorganise the parts like this : introduction biographical details ( including career as a London playwright ) qualities as a writer — powers of description — humour themes — education — church — the divided self — most of all as an artistic movement centrally concerned with the relationship between the self and others . |
| 5 | Generalizing a little , we might plot the stress trajectories , that is the direction in which the stress is handed on from one atomic bond to the next , very much as in Figure 2 of this chapter . |
| 6 | Of course the parallel between ontogeny and phylogeny can not be carried the whole way through — prehistoric human beings did not look like newborn babies — but there are various reasons why we might expect the early stages of embryonic development to have some relation to the early stages of our evolution . |
| 7 | All we have to do is to find out what the brains of our common ancestors looked like to find out how similar we might expect the brains of mammals to be . |
| 8 | If there is any truth in the observation that , in many things , Britain tends to follow one step behind the United States , then we might expect the single interest group to have a real impact in this country in the future . |
| 9 | Alternatively , we might expect the predation- pattern to show a form of apostatic selection ( Clarke , 1962 ) : the dog-whelks choosing the most frequently encountered of the potential prey species . |
| 10 | We might expect the throne for some generations to be occupied by a more or less yellow king ; but can any one believe that the whole island will gradually acquire a white , or even a yellow population , or that the islanders would acquire the energy , courage , ingenuity , patience , self-control , endurance , in virtue of which qualities our hero killed so many of their ancestors , and begot so many children ; these qualities , in fact , which the struggle for existence would select , if it could select anything ? |
| 11 | Thus we might expect the instrument not to be sufficiently sensitive for these conditions and so not for a growth room . |
| 12 | In this second category we might place the first seventeen sonnets , with their persuasion to marriage , a sequence that may in fact draw some of its arguments and images from a model epistle , Erasmus 's Encomium Matrimonii , Englished by Sir Thomas Wilson as An Epistle to perswade a yong Gentleman to mariage , devised by Erasmus , in the behalfe of his freend . |
| 13 | For example in trying to increase the fuel efficiency of a car we might create the following sub-problems : better fuel consumption in the cylinder ; better timing of ignition ; use of exhaust gas heat ; reduction of weight of body ; less fuel consumption for air conditioners etc . |
| 14 | We might diagram the pitch movement as shown below , where the two parallel lines represent the speaker 's high and low pitch level : The prominence that results from this pitch movement , or tone , gives the strongest type of stress ; this is called primary stress . |
| 15 | ‘ Then , when you disinherited me on the spot — oh , I do n't blame you for that , do n't think it ! — when you said we might reap the just rewards of our flight and marry as paupers , he … he left me flat . ’ |
| 16 | And if time permits we might do the Medicis , and a basic roast chicken . |
| 17 | Before considering how we might do the job mathematically , let us just draw in a line by eye , to go through the centre of the data points . |
| 18 | Having rescued the powerful from ‘ abnormality ’ we might do the same for the powerless . |
| 19 | The first great motive for planting churches today is that we might reach the lost . |
| 20 | Interest has been expressed in both the Crewe Heritage Centre and Ironbridge among nearby centres and I have received a suggestion that we might visit the Gwili Railway farther afield . |
| 21 | For the purposes of the present discussion , the NCOAP and NFOAPA provide suitably contrasting examples : to the former we might attach the tag ‘ promotional ’ , to the latter a ‘ representative ’ label . |
| 22 | In deciding what we are going to settle for — or in choosing from alternatives — then we might set the priorities and satisfy as many of the most important ones as we can . |
| 23 | We might give the hospital a call , I think , and get the latest report . |
| 24 | In considering drama 's place in topic work , we have to start by thinking how we might dramatise the topic ; and that means seeking out human dilemmas , looking for the moments of change in a situation , or the moments when change might be possible ; we 're looking for those moments when people make choices . |
| 25 | ‘ We might make the odd administrative error , Detective Inspector , but releasing the wrong men does n't usually fall into that category . ’ |
| 26 | We might make the odd selective acquisition but not vast amounts of money going on acquisitions there either . |
| 27 | Or we might wear the radical ‘ reflexive ’ pair , whose lenses have been recently polished to a fine smoothness by those same trendy academics who have now entered a middle-age period of intellectual enlightenment ! |
| 28 | We were worried we might miss the mayor . |
| 29 | We might achieve the second task by altering our account of defeasibility so that instead of talking about some one other truth ( which caused the problem of piecemeal addition ) we talk about all truths whatever . |
| 30 | Or we might compare the way Philip II kept Phokis intact in 346 rather than make a present of it to Thebes . |