Example sentences of "we might " in BNC.
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| 1 | Telephone Janet Sutton during office hours if you would like to know more about us , and how we might be able to help you . |
| 2 | And , we might ask , what else could Conceptual Art be ? ’ |
| 3 | And perhaps we might imagine that they are the same but different . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | If only we could bring it into focus , he wrote , if only we could concentrate hard enough , we might be able to understand what it is . |
| 6 | Excuses not to do the work we think we might or should do , excuses not to be kind or considerate or whatever it is we feel we should be ? |
| 7 | With luck , we might have captured a little of the spit and spunk of the working class kids of Dublin 's Northside . |
| 8 | ‘ Well with us backing you we might be able to swing something . |
| 9 | I thought we might perhaps have lunch . ’ |
| 10 | It does n't look as though Steve 's going to get my job so we might start to have problems with things like your season ticket if we 're not careful . |
| 11 | In many ways these reflexive moments are invaluable in helping to explain the specificities of what Evans-Pritchard ( 1951 ) suggested we might consider as an ‘ anthropological history ’ , especially as these alternative periods and the movement through the liminal phase create points in a social process when aspects of structure seem to be made more clearly apparent to the analyst . |
| 12 | This undermined any pre-ordained police logic we might have employed to define them , so that pressures to produce a unidimensional model of ‘ polis — prig ’ were simply unable to be maintained , although we did home in on such facets as their long hair and frequently unwashed state to polarize them as binary ‘ animals ’ , in contrast to our human status . |
| 13 | I 'd have to take a few hundred and we might get one we both agree on . |
| 14 | And then just when we might not stop , oh my love , my virgin forest and me your virgin explorer , it is time , just like that , to stop . |
| 15 | Well — if she had taken kindlier to her a year ago , we might have been wed by now , and I would have escaped the list . ’ |
| 16 | Anything less and we might as well not do it at all . |
| 17 | We might as well be praying ! ’ |
| 18 | So : up there they are with us , some of them ; but here we might as well be among foreigners . |
| 19 | Understanding ‘ mythologies ’ thus , we might paraphrase his title : ‘ Symbols Of Life ’ , which has the additional benefit of thrusting forward his debt to the ‘ surrealist ’ poet Lorca , a natural child of the symbolist movement , whose ‘ super-realisms ’ had infatuated Leonard from his teenage years . |
| 20 | But there is nowhere else that we might get our conception of the physical world from , other than perception . |
| 21 | Or we might talk in terms of an ‘ inner world ’ , the world of mental tableaux accessible only to ourselves . |
| 22 | If that is what is intended , the objector would say , then constructivism is nothing more than a kind of behaviourism ( another attempt to replace the mental by the behavioural ) ; or perhaps we might lump it together with Marxist attempts to ‘ resolve ’ the mind-body problem in terms of ‘ praxis ’ . |
| 23 | If it is the simple physical characteristics of a stimulus that play the key role in generalizations about behaviour , then we might expect to find patients who have lost the ability to lip-read and lost the ability to judge expression , but not patients who have lost only one of these two abilities while retaining the other . |
| 24 | We might even feel that any financial loss is a small price to pay for the satisfaction which woodturning brings . |
| 25 | In the novel itself , where we might expect Marmeladov to speak of solace , respite , forgetting , companionship , he grasps the paradox that he drinks because he is in search of suffering , of ‘ tears and tribulation ’ . |
| 26 | Unsteady work , we might add . |
| 27 | We might be reading this morning 's dreary inconclusive state of play over secondary picketing . |
| 28 | Indeed , if we as a magazine were to reflect accurately the role of ‘ traditional ’ design relative to its actual usage , we might manage about one page per issue . |
| 29 | This is exactly the kind of picture which we might want to save from a screen paintbrush job ; lovely blends of colour , subtle shades and shapes , and not a straight line anywhere . |
| 30 | Accordingly , the most instructive gloss on ‘ externality ’ is to be found where we might expect it , in Pound 's 1916 memoir of the sculptor , Gaudier-Brzeska , where he writes of Gaudier and Lewis and other ‘ vorticists ’ , painters , and sculptors : |