Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] we [vb mod] [not/n't] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is our task to attempt to specify the constraints on spelling under which they were working , always admitting that even after we have done this , there may well be residues of apparent randomness that we can not explain . |
| 2 | The majority of people accept this because the state , by excluding these killings from the murder category , has signified its intention that we should not treat them as capital offenders . |
| 3 | Er so obviously there is a lot of undetected crime that we would n't know about . |
| 4 | The recognition that we can not give complete holist explanations of social phenomena does not undermine the centrality of the intuition to which the doctrine , in its various forms , is a response : the sense that many properties of individuals , whether tastes , aspirations , beliefs , expectations or habits , are to an over-whelming extent formed by society . |
| 5 | In the north-west , we will continue to encourage domestic and inward investment and we will not discriminate against it . |
| 6 | In Kempe 's case the problem is slightly eased by the fact that even she recognised her state after the birth of her first child as a sickness of mind and we should not regard this as an isolated episode of ‘ puerperal psychosis ’ that was unconnected with her continuing aberrant behaviour . |
| 7 | It can be , yeah we had a stop for lunch , we had to have cups of tea , we had to go to ou , out the back and have a fag cos we ca n't smoke in the office . |
| 8 | I was there a few days and then me and me friends barricaded ourselves in a cell and we would n't come out because there was nowt to do . |
| 9 | I 'm sure that if I was still living in England we would n't have got the push that we had on the last album and we would n't have got nominated for a Grammy . |
| 10 | The work of the Commission is , however , quite long term and we will not see quick decisions — those caught up in the process may find in time that the cost of conversion to unitary authorities is too prohibitive . |
| 11 | We may have mixed feelings about scientific triumphs which have included nuclear weapons as well as electric light but we can not deny the comprehensive debt we owe to the emergence of scientific method . |
| 12 | ‘ We know we can get the inhibitor genes into a cell but we ca n't tell whether we 'll be able to produce this inhibitor efficiently enough until we test it . |
| 13 | Meanwhile there 's growing violence as I 've said and we want to end the violence but we can not wait to end the violence before we have the elections and you can imagine at what great disadvantage the democratic forces will work when they try to have elections in a violent atmosphere which is determined by the state structure . |
| 14 | We will carry out a full defence review but we ca n't promise where the cuts may be reversed |
| 15 | And er we had a plan for to build a building with er dressing accommodation and er this was gon na cost seven thousand pound when we could n't face it , we thought that there were far more important things to deal with than that when we had housing , we had just had a housing report which said that two thousand houses in the town were not up to the modern standard . |
| 16 | As the quotations above show , there is a recurrent recognition by the great minds of the Christian faith that we can not separate the knowledge of ourselves from the knowledge of God . |
| 17 | To define the different forms of theism and atheism is no easy task , and it requires from the start a degree of modesty and admission that we can not hope to cover everything ! |
| 18 | At the last minute , when the stern hit the swollen water and the dinghy 's progress flattened out I jumped in myself and simply hoped against all reasonable hope that we would n't sink at once . |
| 19 | Her sons would often invite me to some remote corner where we hoped against hope that we would not disturb the siesta of the compound , though we were rarely successful . |
| 20 | Hermione Lee is admirably judicious about all this , pointing out both that we have a perfect right to say things about a writer that we would not have said in their lifetime , and that ‘ to account for Cather 's fiction by reading it as an encoding of covert , even guilty sexuality is , I think , both patronising and narrow . ’ |
| 21 | A parallel-group study with 24 children given half the dose of evening primrose oil that we used for 4 weeks , demonstrated a significant difference between active and placebo groups , a finding that we can not explain . |
| 22 | I mean , it is n't as though we have to operate a policy in which we heavily advertise the availability of grants , it , it can develop via word of mouth , if we advertise anything , we would be inundated with demand for to a level that we could n't cope with . |
| 23 | K : ‘ I am disappointed because although I bought a freezer there is only one power point in the kitchen so we ca n't use it — an extension lead would be dangerous with Chloe toddling about . |
| 24 | Well I think , probably ought to make it clear of course that we wo n't have available to us the greenbelt local plan enquiry , so |
| 25 | And the result was of course that we could n't build the centre of the town . |
| 26 | ‘ Ballroom Blitz ’ , ‘ Hell Raiser ’ , ‘ Little Willy ’ , ‘ Wig Wam Bam ’ , ‘ Blockbuster ’ and a lot of self-penned and inferior shit that we wo n't mention here . |
| 27 | Well before I got married I had this I had this fucking dream that we could n't get our hairs done , all the girls could n't their hairs done because nowhere was open . |
| 28 | Jason and I made a pact that we would n't discuss hairdressing at home unless we had to and we think that is even more important now that we have the baby . |
| 29 | It was such a bizarre twist that we could n't see how anyone would find a way around it . |
| 30 | It is a pity that we can not spend more time just looking at some of the issues — for example , clause 28 , which is quite important — which affect adult education . |