Example sentences of "we might be [verb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I joked about a jockey needing a large port and brandy to do that sort of thing cold in the morning — and besides we might be risking the horse suffering a mishap . |
| 2 | The re-emergence of feminism in the 1960s is important for women because whatever other political struggles we might be engaged in , our subordination to men individually and collectively is a condition we share with all women irrespective of class , race and sexual preference . |
| 3 | It was once believed to be a very young star , still condensing ; then it was suggested that we might be dealing with a Black Hole ; now it seems more likely that the eclipsing component is a hot bluish star surrounded by a cloud of opaque material . |
| 4 | In no. 15 indeed , we might be dealing with a prefabricated panel ( Neal 1976b , 249 ; Neal 1981 , no. 75 ) : this is suggested by the cutting of the lion 's tail by the bordering line . |
| 5 | I used to discuss with my brother ways and means of becoming martyrs , and we agreed to go together to the land of the Moors , begging our way for the love of God , so that we might be beheaded there … . |
| 6 | ‘ Do n't you think we might be missed ? ’ |
| 7 | What we might be seeing on the extreme right is not the last stages of antisemitism , but its continuation in a climate without Jewish issues , or , to be precise , without the son of Jewish issues which can mobilize the support which the extreme right seeks . |
| 8 | So we might be looking for an ornamental dagger , then ? ’ |
| 9 | Er , I 've seen other papers where there is a hint that we might be looking for a contribution , er , out of the general budget , er , of that difference , that two hundred and fifty thousand . |
| 10 | If we can get that , then five or six years down the track we might be producing players who can do something at world level . ’ |
| 11 | Because however much we might be reassured by Parliament that Charles 's constitutional position will be unaffected by his separation , most of us believe that the Prince will finally have to give up his right to the throne — just as his Great Uncle did in the Abdication of 1936 . |
| 12 | With the pick-up truck , if we learned to smoke roll-ups and wore denim jackets over our fleecy tops , we might be mistaken for locals . |
| 13 | ‘ Anyway , we might be mistaken about the registration number . |
| 14 | After Warrington they 've got to be careful or we might be blown up in smoke . |
| 15 | If they do not express the concept of multiple points of view in a way familiar to those schooled in western ways , we might be justified in exposing the limitations of their expressions and of the thought system within which they operate , but this would not tell us anything about the individuals or groups themselves as thinkers . |
| 16 | Certainly , we might be justified in assuming that whatever kind of superego a person had it might have some controlling , drive-inhibiting aspects , and consequently that anarchy , which is equivalent to a more or less complete absence of controls , is an unlikely outcome . |
| 17 | I guess he thought it safer to ask me there over the noise of the engine and in the babble of conversation than in some quiet spot alone , where we might be bugged . |
| 18 | Well I 've got a feeling that if you do a video we 're gon na reorganise anyway in the light of er what 's going to happen in near future , getting rid of chief superintendents and things like that , we might be wasting money again . |
| 19 | Add to this the possibility that by eating organic produce we might be filling the cornfields with poppies once again and I suspect that mere flavour often takes a back seat . |
| 20 | The very limited opportunities for disabled people to take part in all forms of the arts as spectators , creators or participants raises questions about whether or not we are an oppressed and marginalised subgroup and what we might be trying to do about this . |
| 21 | Of this matter we thought very meet to certify your honor less otherwise we might be suspected of fraudulend dealing towards the Company , from which the God defend us . |
| 22 | ‘ Seems like we might be made redundant . ’ |
| 23 | We might be reading this morning 's dreary inconclusive state of play over secondary picketing . |
| 24 | Certainly they talk of other gods , but the nature of these gods is so different from that of the god whom Jews and Moslems are to follow that we might be tempted to deny that these others are gods at all . |
| 25 | Caught inextricably in that cycle , with pregnancies to confuse and exacerbate the situation , Elizabeth Titford 's body finally gave up the struggle in June ; with tragic inevitability , we might be tempted to say , looking back with the advantage of hindsight . |
| 26 | After Falstaff or Malvolio or Parolles , we might be tempted to think that dissimulation can lie known , exposed , or controlled , without much harm being done . |
| 27 | On such occasions we might be tempted to write{ x : P(x) } where P is a property characterising those and only those elements of the set in question , P(a) indicating that the object a has property P and hence lies in the set . |
| 28 | Confronted with such a situation , with no sure indication as to how , if at all , a satisfactory clarification of particular identity might be found , we might be tempted to think that the best course to follow is to try and see if we can make do without relying on this awkward and intractable concept . |
| 29 | This is such a formidable list that we might be tempted to assume that research and higher education must at least be species of the same genus of activity , even if not actually identical . |
| 30 | We might be tempted also to say that other benefits of depreciation accounting would ensue , such as producing a charge in revenue accounts for the use of assets , rather than as at present for the financing of assets . |