Example sentences of "we might [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Being honest about our motivation is crucial since , at this stage , we might discover that it is not our own Dream at all , or that our motivation is somewhat dubious : ‘ It will impress my friends ’ , ‘ It will be one in the eye for my parents ’ , ‘ It will ease my sense of guilt ’ , ‘ It will make me feel more secure ’ , ‘ It will give me power over other people ’ , ‘ It will make me feel special ’ , ‘ It 's what my partner keeps suggesting I do ’ , ‘ It 's the opposite of what my partner suggests I do . ’ |
| 2 | The ‘ heroic lays , which the Beowulf -poet knew and alluded to sound very fine from his allusions , but if we had them we might discover that the fascination came from his art , not theirs . |
| 3 | This is in contrast to the relatively high esteem in which data and information management is currently held , and if we are optimistic we might hope that by associating work on computer systems with the control of paper , we might raise the DROs ’ prestige within government . |
| 4 | We might conjecture that the general form of the solution for which we seek is as follows : |
| 5 | It is likely that this will make him more tired than usual and so we might guess that he will sleep longer . |
| 6 | It is difficult to be sure , but we might guess that they are becoming increasingly rare . |
| 7 | Given that usefulness was rated on an eleven-point scale ( 0 to 10 ) we might expect that relatively few would rate television and the press exactly equal . |
| 8 | * Comparing the scheme shown in fig. 5.11(b) with that of Fig. 5.11(a) , we might expect that the presence of the extra active a elements would produce more effective overshadowing of the c elements during training with A. Generalization to B would therefore be reduced . |
| 9 | In a survey of school-children , we might expect that the answers they give in an interview held in the headmaster 's study will be different from those they give at home , or out of doors . |
| 10 | However , if divergers are more unconventional , we might expect that some divergent girls would choose science , but this is apparently not the case . |
| 11 | We might expect that in condition B , where clauses ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) are syntactically related , verbatim recall of these clauses should be similar . |
| 12 | If there is no natural selection , therefore , we might expect that there would be no evolution . |
| 13 | We might surmise that the separations John experienced between the ages of two and seven years resulted in the development of an internal blueprint predicting that close relationships were unlikely to be sustained , and cautioning against becoming involved with others . |
| 14 | Looking back at 4 , we might surmise that teachers and pupils have a shared schema for the progress and structure of a school lesson and their roles and responses to possible events . |
| 15 | We might assume that perceptual experiences of some kind are directly accessible to an observer , but observation statements certainly are not . |
| 16 | Of course we might assume that in our stationary state every business remained always of the same size , and with the same trade connection . |
| 17 | As the poem progresses , we might assume that contextual or latent discourse referents are less likely to be introduced , for we read and interpret in the light of what has gone before — of previous elements in the utterance . |
| 18 | Since , in the case of the parents being separated , young children usually live with their mother in our society , we might infer that the woman 's children are in some form of institutional or educational care . |
| 19 | Alternatively , we might feel that people who took care to give different media sources exactly the same rating on an eleven-point scale were indicating quite strongly that they found them equally useful . |
| 20 | If that was all there was to it , we could be pardoned some uneasiness ; we might feel that we have n't been shown much reason for supposing that there are any sentences such that all who understand them will agree on their truth-value no matter what the circumstances . |
| 21 | We might observe that the instruction Be relevant seems to cover all the other instructions . |
| 22 | We might think that ‘ Naxos ’ in Cantos 2 , 24 , and 78 is the place of that name beneath Taormina , the site ( lately and partially excavated ) of the earliest Greek colony in Sicily , and thereafter the port whence the teams from all the Sicilian Greek cities made a ceremonial departure to compete in the Olympic Games ; but the Annotated Index is doubtless right to identify Naxos , on the contrary , with an island in the Aegean . |
| 23 | We might think that this change of life would bring joy primarily to the person who is redeemed . |
| 24 | But it includes the causal theory as a special case , since we might think that if the fact that p does cause a 's belief that p , then the two subjunctive conditionals will be true ( but not vice versa ) . |
| 25 | So we might think that the correctness of translation is always evidence-transcendent . |
| 26 | We might think that by the end of this fragment there is once again a single version for both speakers of ‘ what I think we 're talking about ’ . |
| 27 | We might think that any differences reflected poorer performance but it may just be that they merely reflect the different impact of specific price changes on drugs compared with books . |
| 28 | We might think that majority rule is the fairest workable decision procedure in politics , but we know that the majority will sometimes , perhaps often , make unjust decisions about the rights of individuals . |
| 29 | Given the pre-eminence and advanced economic development of Kent , we might conclude that the exchange of prestige items was directed towards the areas with the most marked social differentiation . |
| 30 | So we might conclude that there is no need to have stringent standing rules ( or , indeed , any standing rule at all ) if other means to weed out hopeless and vexatious cases are provided . |