Example sentences of "what we might [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We will need to keep a run going until Easter and , if we can do that , you never know what we might achieve . ’ |
| 2 | It is much harder to move from a visual , qualitative appreciation of what can be seen under the microscope to more quantitative measures of how much or how many of any component is present ; yet unless something entirely new was being synthesized as a result of training , then what we might anticipate observing would be small changes in the number , pattern or distribution of existing structures , particularly synapses . |
| 3 | The wholly negative tone of the passage is only what we might expect from the rest of the chapter . |
| 4 | It adds up to just what we might expect , in fact , from a talented , energetic and fashionably leftish folk-rock group . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 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 | What we might think of as a process of deliberation and choice about our desires is , for him , simply the interplay and jostling of desires amongst themselves ; and what we call ‘ will ’ is simply the desire that wins . |
| 8 | Sometimes , moreover , experience can show that our reasoning is superficial and incorrect , as when we learn from it that , despite what we might think , an arrow fired upwards from a moving ship will not fall behind but back on to it . |
| 9 | experiment are what we might think of as optional inferences . |
| 10 | There is also evidence in favour of the view that what we might think of as pragmatic factors influence language comprehension . |
| 11 | okay I think what we might think about doing is maybe just having a meeting for an hour one evening on that one subject |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Paolo Guidi , president of Sprint International , said only that his company makes ‘ partnerships with people ’ , and Randall Tobias , chairman of AT&T International , said , ‘ I wo n't put constraints on what we might do . |
| 14 | What people said , the things that happened , what we might do next Saturday night — that kind of thing . |
| 15 | I bring the conversation round to our prisoners , but he does n't know where they were taken , or what we might do when someone finally comes . |
| 16 | I undertake to examine all these matters to see what we might do . |
| 17 | I 'd be much more impressed by some positive suggestions of what we might do cos I th you know , months ago I was browbeaten outside church over a lot of similar issues and I said then , you know |
| 18 | this is a structural change , what you could do or the easiest thing would be to do was just to incorporate a dummy variable , right , if you incorporated a dummy variable to a erm and to explain the and to take out the effect of structural change , right , er in that dummy inclusive model , right , all the diagnostic test statistics were okay , right , you would use , you would , therefore , use that , that particular model what we might do is just see if that is the case erm so if you come out of er diagnostics , work towards the data processing environment and generate a dummy variable right , so if you go into the erm data processing environment if it 's in the er sort of process plot option what we 'll do create a dummy variable call it D and let D pull zero press the return key and then edit D oh and if you just set erm observations for |
| 19 | B : Say , what 're you doing [ implication ; " I 've got a suggestion about what we might do together " ] A : Well , we 're going out . |
| 20 | So I says what we might do , we might buy his off him . |
| 21 | What we 're looking at in this half hour is why and how we use drugs and what we might change . |
| 22 | It must also be remembered that the working life of what we might regard as identical batteries tends to vary . |
| 23 | To Chaucer , as to the old countryman , what we might regard as broad or even bawdy is a plain fact of nature , as neutral or objective as — to use Chaucer 's own word — the engendering of the simple flower . |
| 24 | Presumably , what we might term this ‘ post word identification ’ effect of context is also present in the perception and comprehension of spoken language as well as written language . |
| 25 | This is to recapitulate briefly what we might term the cultural , as opposed to the natural , history of the ego and the superego . |
| 26 | Finally , it is worth pointing out that , if my account of neoteny in man is correct , even the relatively ego-less citizen of the totalitarian state is the possessor of what we might term the neurophysiological substrate of the ego and the superego , which almost certainly comprises some of the most recently acquired elements of the human brain . |
| 27 | This will constitute what we might term the Prolegomena to the inquiry proper . |
| 28 | But during our holiday visit we found exactly what we wanted , helped by the way Jonathan used his imagination about what we might like , even though we had n't specified it . ’ |
| 29 | But what he has to say in his tale may represent what we might like to believe such a character 's ribald attitudes towards women , towards his fellow men , and towards conventional morality would predictably be . |
| 30 | if I do that you 've all got to scatter and we were really worried about what we might find . |