Example sentences of "we might [verb] a " in BNC.

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1 Although there were more than 100 British nationals killed in the accident there was no provision at that time for a State with such an interest to participate , but knowing that the minister was bound to be asked by MPs in the House what arrangements there were for investigating the cause of death of so many UK citizens I telephoned my old friend Michel Vigier in paris with a formal request that we might send a UK observer .
2 One disadvantage of the tokamak is that it has a pulsed discharge ( although there have been various suggestions as to how we might design a continuous tokamak ) while the stellarator and EBT are DC ( continuous ) toroidal configurations .
3 We might expect a clear relationship , for example , between the number of school children and the amount of spending on education .
4 Given what we know about the formation of new varieties of English in overseas colonies of Britain , we might expect a similar process to have taken place among Caribbean migrants living in Britain itself .
5 For instance , we might sort a group of Roman coins into groups by different emperors and then subdivide these groups by some further criterion , such as the type of portrait which occurs or the inscription found with it .
6 ‘ If so I 'll walk down with you , and then we might do a bit of visiting afterwards or even just go for a walk . ’
7 Five million , or if , five million , we might do a little bit of reinsuring on that one , do n't quote me .
8 In this section we shall begin to consider how we might estimate a macroeconomic model of the economy which includes rational expectations , but where the expectation of the variable is not directly observed .
9 You look ready to dance with rage , and although we might collect a few pennies from them in return for our providing such a spectacle I hardly think that we could put it on as a permanent entertainment ! ’
10 I wonder when we might arrange a meeting to talk over old times ?
11 We might give a superior smile at such a superstitious notion , and explain that the arranging was really done by the blind forces of physics , in this case the action of waves .
12 I remember Chapman was amazed when I told him we might make a million profit in 1982 .
13 ‘ Why , we might make a meeting-place in the woods , ’ cried Gillian excitedly — ‘ all our own ! ’
14 It considers the way in which we might make a reality of the observation ( by Keith Joseph ) that ‘ the curriculum should be relevant to the real world and pupils ’ experience of it' by considering the range of challenges and opportunities which people face in , say , the domestic environment , often regarded as too trivial for ‘ academic ’ education , but where arguably most important economic , technical and social decisions are made and acted upon : in the community where a host of issues require an informed public to exercise judgment and active commitment to ensure that the quality of the social and physical environment is constantly improved , and so on in other contexts which will require people to make an active and hopefully informed response , underlain by conceptual understanding of general issues to which , if taught effectively , geography , history , physical sciences and design , indeed all academic disciplines , can make a powerful contribution .
15 We might make a diagram of the mediation process in the following way :
16 A recent review of the IQ debate , commissioned by the Swann inquiry , concluded that the largest variation in IQ scores was caused by the social and economic conditions under which children grew up and pointed out , ‘ If , therefore , we wish to affect the IQ scores of children from ethnic minorities , or indeed their school performance , we might make a start by improving the social and economic circumstances of their families ’ ( Mackintosh and Mascie-Taylor , 1985 , p. 148 ) .
17 Looking forward , and viewing ourselves as contributing to the development of provisionally held theories , it seems to offer no more than the hope that we might make a contributions even if we do not really understand what , how , or to what .
18 But we might make a mistake with the title and someone .
19 The Macmillan era had aroused hopes in leftist hearts that we might achieve a mixed economy that made sense ; but the murkiness of political scandal and the absurdities of needless party discord rendered Mr Macmillan 's last months unhappy and confused .
20 How much more quickly does my hon. Friend think that we might achieve a balance between exports and imports when we introduce a minimum wage , increase taxes on investment , increase personal taxes and allow the trade unions to ride rough shod once again ?
21 There were even rumblings that we might represent a sort of Karmic return of this man — who had apparently shared our obsession for their sailing craft , as well as for Bira 's surrounding wildlife . "
22 For example , we might suggest a route for the mains , and specify carriageway , verge or footpath , based on the results of our own surveys .
23 ‘ We look like going out and that 's a shame because we might learn a bit more .
24 ‘ Well I do n't know , we might look a bit further …
25 so that the new flesh that we require will be a different sort of flesh than we 've got now probably in the new order or whatever it is , you know , we might require a different sort of flesh might n't we ?
26 So we look at this ten pound we 're going to put that ten pound on the table we might put a ten pound note or we might say we 'll have ten one pound coins .
27 To these we might add a final point , For the consummation of the Kingdom will be more compelling than the Church .
28 Remark If we wish to emphasise that we are demanding unc we might say a divides b in
29 We might wait a long time ! ’ he said .
30 In their nervousness they offered at once the gifts they had brought : tea , fruit , duty-free whiskey — ‘ It 'll be useful to have in the house even if nobody drinks it and we might need a glass ’ — a printed silk headscarf , thick fur gloves .
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