Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] we [vb mod] [not/n't] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we want the situation to be as realistic as possible , we have to accept that we can not control all the variables , and can therefore never be sure that the cause and effect relationships we identify are , in fact , correct . |
| 2 | We would do better to accept that we can not say precisely how much of the book dates from this last stage , although there were , no doubt , changes of various kinds , including deletions . |
| 3 | We 'll have to look into it to see if we ca n't manage it . |
| 4 | We wish to suggest that we can not assume an a priori aggressive drive in humans . |
| 5 | If we did not have certain terms , for instance if we did not have a word ‘ orange ’ as well as a word ‘ yellow ’ , it is easy to imagine that we would not have a concept of the corresponding colours ; indeed the fact that there is nothing natural or necessary about colour terms is proved , as one of Saussure 's successors argued ( Hjelmslev 1961 : 52ff. ) by the fact that different languages divide up the colour spectrum differently . |
| 6 | Pressing , as her distresses are , if I did not think her heart was rightly turned , I should be afraid of proposing such a measure , lest it should unsettle the sobriety of her mind , and , by exciting her vanity , indispose her for the laborious employments of her humble condition ; but it would be cruel to imagine that we can not mend her fortune without impairing her virtue . |
| 7 | To say we were physically exhausted does not begin to describe how we felt when we finally made it , and it was only a small consolation to hear that we would not start until 9 am the following morning . |
| 8 | But er er going beyond that , I think it would be wise for us to assume that we will not get paid time off for this even if we do attempt to disguise it as something else . |
| 9 | ‘ Of course we want him to play but we ca n't do any more than wait . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'll have to keep them open tonight ; we 're expected to win but we ca n't take anything for granted in World Cup football . ’ |
| 11 | We all have experienced inability to sleep when we can not settle down and problems occupy our minds . |
| 12 | If it were possible to diminish the use of gas , to increase British coal production and to erect trade and tariff barriers to ensure that we can not import foreign coal , what would the consequences be for those who want to use the power that is generated ? |
| 13 | In the real world we have to recognize that we can not convert customers to only use the database . |
| 14 | We do n't use sites , we do n't make planning applications , applicants do but we have to consider that we ca n't say we do n't like it , go elsewhere . |
| 15 | You 've got to understand that we ca n't count on the Shah any more . |
| 16 | ‘ We want to run but we will not risk her unless the going is right , ’ said trainer Clive Brittain . |
| 17 | I must point out that this is not the correct way to stand , it is merely an exercise to demonstrate that we can not rely upon our feelings alone to inform us about what we are doing to ourselves . |
| 18 | We have come to appreciate that we can not expect children to live by our adult standards too early , or too quickly , without doing them harm ; but nor should we expect them to socialize themselves . |
| 19 | In a way , I 'm interested at the Engineering Prize Federation and C B I have also began to realise that we ca n't survive , and I 'm sorry if you 're retailers , ca n't survive on the service in this country , we got ta survive on a manufacturing industry in this country and the only way you can do that is by having , really a pool of trained people . |
| 20 | ‘ Chimpanzees are so like us intellectually and physiologically , it 's absurd to think that we ca n't have some kind of rapport . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ It makes me sad , though , to think that we sha n't see Donald Bailey again . ’ |
| 22 | But then her voice softened as she whispered , ‘ Now you must rest , only rest , for there will be much for you to learn and we can not say how quickly or slowly time will pass . ’ |
| 23 | Er , a knowledge but erm , I would have to move that we can not accept this recommendation because , it 's not that we do n't er support the scheme within this paper , but it 's that we can not accept . |
| 24 | Well I would , I would , I would just comment that there er in profits have er have it does n't mean to say that we wo n't have some profits from our estate at Thurrock because there are other areas of land involved , but they wo n't be so substantial and for B-Sky-B I would turn to Frank . |
| 25 | to say that we could n't go all er go er tt all go to her house and I was just about to ask Sam if Jenny knew and she put the phone down and she had n't told Jenny . |
| 26 | My dad always used to say that we could not afford lunch , although , I have to say , this did not stop him eating it . |
| 27 | In our January issue , we omitted to say that we could not have taken the photographs of readers in all the colours of the rainbow without the cooperation of Debenhams in Western Road Brighton . |
| 28 | ‘ This is a promise that God gave to Abraham , ’ North said Reagan had told him , in the slightly hectoring tone he always had in the North dreams ; ‘ Who am I to say that we should not do this ? ’ |
| 29 | The objection involves the feeling or perhaps the conviction that we can never state or explicitly describe such a thing as a causal circumstance is said to be , which is to say that we can not do something like give a complete enumeration of its elements : we can not give particular or individuating descriptions of all of them . |
| 30 | We never meant this to happen but we ca n't help ourselves . |