Example sentences of "might try [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , an objector might try to press the fashionable distaste for the first-person perspective and say that the fact that I can not apply the theory to myself shows nothing except that one should not approach the philosophy of mind via the first person . |
| 2 | If we are sceptical that an evidential base with intrinsic credibility and a isolatable and justifiable conception of rationality can be found , then we might try to tackle the same problems non-reductively , in which case anti-naturalist scruples seem out of place . |
| 3 | He said : ‘ There are people who might try to take the law into their own hands if they find that the police and community leaders are not achieving results . |
| 4 | We might try to define the origin in terms of some other frame of reference . |
| 5 | Authorities have themselves acknowledged fears that ‘ counter-revolutionaries ’ , still at large despite a nationwide crackdown on dissent , might try to sabotage the anniversary . |
| 6 | By the end of the nineteenth century there was an almost perfect fit between the moral indoctrination pursued by the school and what was perhaps the most obvious way in which an individual boy might try to resolve the conflicting demands which the experience of school made on him . |
| 7 | You might try getting the games player a packet of Nintendo Breakfast Cereal from America . |
| 8 | Because there was no sign that Marian and Allen had regained the highway ahead of them the verderers agreed that there were three possibilities : the first , that the children would lie hidden for some time in dense woodland until it was safe for them to return to the ride ; the second , that they would try to work their way around the Swamp to the north but that since they would be away from paths this would be difficult and slow ; and the third , that they might try to reach the outlaws ' camp by passing the Swamp to the south . |
| 9 | He might try to justify the principle by appealing to logic , a recourse that we freely grant him , or he might attempt to justify the principle by appealing to experience , a recourse that lies at the basis of his whole approach to science . |
| 10 | Yes , would it be a possibility , perhaps , that Sir Edward Heath , might try to get the other European hostages out ? |
| 11 | Have you any suggestions as to what I might try to overcome the problem ? |
| 12 | Peter White , this instability could result as people have been warning in Civil War , that we 've already heard about venturism being er , suggested by the Russian leader Boris Yeltsin it , he might try to change the boundaries of the Soviet Republics . |
| 13 | He might try to play the occasion down , but inside he 'll be desperate to win . ’ |
| 14 | He had picked somebody he thought he could work with smoothly rather than somebody who might try to steal the credit . |
| 15 | Or that they might try to cross the Swamp and if so nothing more would be heard of them , for they would inevitably perish . |
| 16 | Physically , they might try climbing the Great Tower if they have Scale Sheer Surface skill and/or relevant equipment . |
| 17 | Apparently fearing that an increasingly angry president might try to disband the legislature , deputies also voted to continue their session into a fourth day today , ‘ to watch attentively that the executive observes the constitution ’ , in the words of the parliamentary chairman , Ruslan Khasbulatov . |
| 18 | In practice , he was likely to be related through descent and marriage to any parties to a dispute ; and as an elderly and respected man he might try to prevent the scandal of open quarrelling among close kinsmen . |
| 19 | The bunkers ate into the fairway at around the 240-yard mark to cool the aggressive ardour of the professional golfer who might try to cut the slight dogleg and set himself up for an easier shot into the two-tier green . |