Sentence examples for hypothetical construction from inspiring English sources

Use the subjunctive "were," not "was," for this hypothetical construction.

"Let's say hypothetically, I say the mayor has to be in control, the governor has to be in control," Mr. Cuomo said, using a hypothetical construction that was intended, he explained, to make sure that he does not divulge this early what he promised will be "a very big news story" in his campaign.

Use the subjunctive for a hypothetical construction like this: "If a meteor were found …" Of the five million stops in New York that the police have recorded since 2004, some 88 percent of those encounters ended with the person's walking away without a summons or an arrest.

A hypothetical construction work order (Figure 17 and Table 5) was assigned to the avatar.

This study compares the performance of PBA with that of BA and PSO for hypothetical construction engineering of CSL problems.

Comparative studies are performed by simulating the hypothetical construction schemes of two conventional excavation methods that were proposed for the investigated case.

The idea is clear: namely, to avoid hypothetical constructions, and the use of logic they require, by insisting that a construction be supplied that proves the antecedent.

But, as Van Dalen also notices, it is also in effect a rejection of the hypothetical judgement in the general case where one does not know whether there is a construction for A. On this reading, Brouwer's explanation of the hypothetical judgement avoids hypothetical constructions and the concomitant use of logic by considering conditions on constructions instead of constructions themselves.

These examples are hypothetical, and construction of such models would require knowledge of all elements of the chain, and prior hypotheses about how such chains could occur.

A study in Dane County, Wisconsin, estimated a benefit-cost ratio of 1.7 for a hypothetical countywide sidewalk construction project.

The predictive act would involve the construction of hypothetical models of the way the world might be at some future point.