Example sentences of "[noun sg] we [adv] do not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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1 | If we choose not to attend to the higher-level activity during cycling we simply do not notice our surroundings and may take an incorrect route . |
2 | It has been classed as an R Coronæ star , but it is certainly atypical , and it is wiser to admit that at present we simply do not know . |
3 | The Trinidad crashed near Madrid , and to this day we still do not know for sure what happened . |
4 | Also it is disappointing that despite these improvements in performance we still do not understand properly the physics of thermal insulation and we did not expect that increased density ( up to the limit when particle collisions take over ) would have quite the favourable effect that we have found in many machines . |
5 | Everybody knows how forward they are in this regard in North America , but in my experience it 's just the same in Australia , Argentina , the Soviet Union and elsewhere : for a rain soaked water girdled nation we really do not come very high in the league of comforts and efficiency . |
6 | At this distance in time we simply do not know in detail how the clerks did their jobs , for there were no manuals of office procedure , and the functional tasks gradually evolved so that they bore little resemblance to their forebears . |
7 | They are talking a language we probably do not understand , and which they hope will impress us and befuddle us and increase their status . |