Example sentences of "we might [vb infin] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although there were more than 100 British nationals killed in the accident there was no provision at that time for a State with such an interest to participate , but knowing that the minister was bound to be asked by MPs in the House what arrangements there were for investigating the cause of death of so many UK citizens I telephoned my old friend Michel Vigier in paris with a formal request that we might send a UK observer . |
| 2 | ‘ We might send an official to have a chat with Mr Cackett but more likely we will talk to the athlete about defacing her uniform . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They avoided our glances as if we might bestow the evil eye . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | One disadvantage of the tokamak is that it has a pulsed discharge ( although there have been various suggestions as to how we might design a continuous tokamak ) while the stellarator and EBT are DC ( continuous ) toroidal configurations . |
| 9 | We might expect a clear relationship , for example , between the number of school children and the amount of spending on education . |
| 10 | Given what we know about the formation of new varieties of English in overseas colonies of Britain , we might expect a similar process to have taken place among Caribbean migrants living in Britain itself . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ? |
| 16 | Thus we might expect the instrument not to be sufficiently sensitive for these conditions and so not for a growth room . |
| 17 | Energy is thus dispersed and so we might expect an increase in entropy and not a decrease . |
| 18 | For instance , we might sort a group of Roman coins into groups by different emperors and then subdivide these groups by some further criterion , such as the type of portrait which occurs or the inscription found with it . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ If so I 'll walk down with you , and then we might do a bit of visiting afterwards or even just go for a walk . ’ |
| 24 | Five million , or if , five million , we might do a little bit of reinsuring on that one , do n't quote me . |
| 25 | And if time permits we might do the Medicis , and a basic roast chicken . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Having rescued the powerful from ‘ abnormality ’ we might do the same for the powerless . |
| 28 | In this section we shall begin to consider how we might estimate a macroeconomic model of the economy which includes rational expectations , but where the expectation of the variable is not directly observed . |
| 29 | I had thought we might reach an early agreement on our target . |
| 30 | The first great motive for planting churches today is that we might reach the lost . |