Example sentences of "what we might " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this respect , it is useful to pay attention to what we might now term the human rights ' issue as one examines the handling of public — private morality in the Irish constitution . |
| 2 | We fell asleep wondering what we might be missing . |
| 3 | We talked about the wildlife of the area and what we might see . |
| 4 | The more what we might call trendy or eccentric or showy technique has tended to become in the last few years , the more I have felt I wanted to try and make films with as much simplicity and as much directness as possible . |
| 5 | The second US reaction was to reassure the West Germans that Washington was happy to leave the details about what we might now call the eastern provinces in Bonn 's hands . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The wholly negative tone of the passage is only what we might expect from the rest of the chapter . |
| 9 | This former schoolmaster and magistrate of 18 years has sat with 50 mediums 130 times to further his quest for knowledge about what we might call ‘ the other side ’ . |
| 10 | The desire for improved services was centred among Congregationalists and Baptists while what we might call a larger search for dignity pertained to all the major denominations ; the Congregationalist , Dr George Barrett , told a 1900 meeting of the Free Church Council that ‘ Nonconformists have not yet enlisted the imagination as a handmaid to faith … |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | It adds up to just what we might expect , in fact , from a talented , energetic and fashionably leftish folk-rock group . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In most of the examples discussed in this chapter , the finished product is a smooth curve which resembles what we might have drawn if we had smoothed the raw data by eye ; looking from the smooth back to the rough we could usually see the trend in the raw data . |
| 15 | Each of these may be further subdivided and the typology shown in Fig. 10.1 draws upon the classic work of Burton and Kates ( 1964 ) in separating geophysical from biological hazards and Zeigler et al. ( 1983 ) in distinguishing public ( or what we might call societal ) hazards from private ( individual ) ones . |
| 16 | One would tend to put these down to human error — annoying and misleading — in most cases ; what we might call sloppy work . |
| 17 | But many interviews carried out in social research are of samples of what we might call ‘ ordinary ’ people — people who have characteristics , opinions and knowledge of a much more general nature . |
| 18 | One can see from this that random sampling is not at all the same as what we might call ‘ personal choice ’ . |
| 19 | As we have seen previously , Bukharin distinguished between arithmetical sums and what he called ‘ real aggregates ’ , or perhaps what we might call totalities . |
| 20 | Many of the champions were suffering from what we might call post-championship blues . |
| 21 | It must also be remembered that the working life of what we might regard as identical batteries tends to vary . |
| 22 | We become insensitive to what we might call the ‘ once and might have been ’ of faith . |
| 23 | Originally 254cm ( 100in ) and since made at 3/4 size 198cm ( 78in ) , the Spinoff also contributed to the arrival of what we might call third generation stunters by its eventual introduction of stand-off struts . |
| 24 | ‘ We will need to keep a run going until Easter and , if we can do that , you never know what we might achieve . ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | With respect to the lexical item bet , analysis reveals the descriptive fact that what we might call the canonical meaning of the word , ‘ to lay a wager ’ , is relatively rarely attested as compared with its very frequent informal occurrence as a modal marker indicating conviction as in expressions like ‘ I bet he 'll turn up tomorrow ’ , ‘ There 's no milk in the fridge , I bet ’ . |
| 27 | The vigorous characterisation of his early style , as witnessed in Flora Macdonald , gave way to what we might now call a more subtle psychological penetration . |
| 28 | They reproduce what we might call Harding 's ‘ Spanish village syndrome ’ or Carol Gilligan 's ‘ different voice ’ , constructing women to function best in the private domain and men in the public one . |
| 29 | Yet neither does what we might call ‘ the economists ’ Pacific' . |
| 30 | The first is what we might call the ‘ technical Pacific ’ — that immense body of water lying to the seaward of all the island arcs and groups within the Ocean 's obvious continental margins . |