Example sentences of "we might be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These people , the pubescent schoolkid , the 45-year-old English professor , the dim college girl , we have met before , and we might be pleased to see them again , but neither they nor their predicaments quite justify so uncritical a veneration . |
| 2 | Lord , as we look around we see a a tremendous harvest and we just pray that we might be honourable and faithful in the task that you give to us . |
| 3 | ‘ We might be stationary on the launch pad ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ There is only one whom we might be inclined to compare with Jesus : Buddha . |
| 5 | We might be inclined to reject the arrangement because it seems unattractive and not what we want . |
| 6 | There is in fact a sceptical tendency in foundationalism of this sort , just because it leads us to see as problematic everything other than our knowledge of our own sensory states ; it acknowledges the danger that we might be unable to construct the superstructure which the foundations are intended to carry . |
| 7 | It is quite a small world , and sooner or later we might be lucky enough to get someone really close to Leeds on the list . |
| 8 | The idea that we might feel , that we might be angry , that we might care , that we might even have what are disparagingly known as ‘ gut feelings ’ rather than hard scientific evidence , is held to be something of a problem if you are an environmentalist on the road to success . |
| 9 | I think it was overspeculated in the press that we 've sold the premises and it , it well gave the impression that perhaps we might be open you know , some people might not think we 're open even . |
| 10 | Judging from this we might be missing entertainment if not instruction . |
| 11 | We certainly do n't want to do without it if others have it , for fear of what we might be missing , but if we all gave it up — Mr Vansitart , because the human race has invented TV does n't mean we have to put up with it . |
| 12 | If the hon. Member for Oldham , West or I wrote to our local tax inspector and claimed that someone had put a form through our letterbox requiring only our signature for the taxation officer to open up our tax affairs for the past 30 years on the offchance that we might be entitled to something , that would be farcical . |
| 13 | Why why do you think we might be interested in carbon ? |
| 14 | Or was she just telling us she 's having one because she thought we might be interested ? ’ |
| 15 | Thus , we might be interested in the relationship between the politician and the official ; the relationship between the different parties particularly where there is a hung council ; the role of interest groups and their relationship with departments and so on . |
| 16 | In some cases we might be happy for courts to do the weighing exercise involved and , to the extent that we are , we could have a ‘ common law ’ of public law compensation . |
| 17 | Thanks to you we might be dead . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ We might be dead tomorrow , Matt , so let's do it now . ’ |
| 19 | And we might , we we might be wrong . |
| 20 | But we might be experimental enough to spring people into other ideas , which is what it was all about in the first place . |
| 21 | Telephone Janet Sutton during office hours if you would like to know more about us , and how we might be able to help you . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ Well with us backing you we might be able to swing something . |
| 24 | If it were not for Section 8 of the Contempt of Court Act , we might be able to make reforms more rationally on the basis of , at least , a minimal sample of the recorded deliberations of informed and unidentified jurors . |
| 25 | By the end of the year we might be able to look back and prove it , but we ca n't do it today , ’ he said on BBC radio . |
| 26 | We might be able to design other viruses that deliver tumour suppressor genes to prevent cancer . ’ |
| 27 | We might be able to pay for Jason Donovan , but only by cancelling the new computer stuff … ’ |
| 28 | ‘ If it is alive we might be able to help . ’ |
| 29 | But it just may be that now , when we 've got rid of so many wrong ideas , now , at last , is the moment when we might be able to frame — an answer . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I think we might be able to afford some quince as well , ’ said Charles . |