Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] we [vb mod] [not/n't] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The group had had numerous discussions about whether or not they should have a rotating chairperson , some people arguing fiercely that we should n't imitate male structures , that we were developing genuinely new ways of relating , conducting political discussions ; we must all learn to be more sensitive , not interrupt each other , not talk for too long . |
| 2 | Its original function , according to Seth , was to make us feel bad , by briefly separating us from our sense of love and connectedness , so that we would not repeat a harmful act . |
| 3 | I suspect this is so that we ca n't talk back or properly assess their charges or claims . |
| 4 | Would he agree to support a review of the Reserve Forces Safeguard of Employment Act 1985 so that we shall not have in the future the rash of litigation that has been needed against employers who have declined to accept reservists back since the Gulf war ? |
| 5 | They hid the grave so that we could n't give the bodies a proper burial . |
| 6 | Me and all my friends ended up in this cult and the first thing this guy said we had to do was turn all of our friendships against each other so that we could n't trust anybody . |
| 7 | The hall was n't very big , and the individual microphones had been stolen , so that we could n't have individual chats , so you could n't hear what was going on . |
| 8 | For powders or microcrystalline samples , multiple external reflections among grains destroy polarization , so that we can not obtain useful data . |
| 9 | Finally , it seems most plausible to suppose that this enforcement operated within very strict limits , so that we should not speak of a general power of enforcement of modus for public purposes . |
| 10 | Merely that we would not support the application of such a policy . |
| 11 | These must be obtained personally and we can not accept responsibility for them . |
| 12 | Most of us have a tendency to underrate our own skills and experience , especially if we can not put a definite name to them . |
| 13 | Quite rightly so but we ca n't get complacent health and safety is one of the most important issues of all affecting our members . |
| 14 | Although some theorists , in their desire to reproduce the course of first language development , have scorned the relevance of these abilities to second language development , it seems foolish to take no account of them , especially as we can not stop older students from seeking awareness of the rules governing the material they are trying to learn . |
| 15 | The stair of my billet creaked , however , and no matter how carefully I tiptoed , in the morning I was always greeted with , ‘ We heard you come in last night ’ , and of course I felt guilty , especially as we could not defend ourselves , having to pretend that our work was of no account . |
| 16 | So as we can not predict human behavior , we may as well adopt the effective theory that humans are free agents who can choose what to do . |
| 17 | All right so we ca n't go that way it 's too hot . |
| 18 | They imitate us so badly that we ca n't respect them . |
| 19 | A sign of our having grown up is not just that we would n't listen to a Top Twenty single even if by any chance we could , but that we organize life so that we will never have to listen , by chance , to a Top Twenty single . |
| 20 | But we have already seen above that we can not do without an intensification of growth , the development of this petty-bourgeois farm . |
| 21 | We can not afford to turn work away and we can not afford to lose work , ’ a spokesman for Babcock Thorn , Rosyth 's management company , said last night . |
| 22 | We suspect that he was flying in light aircraft to lonely fields in Essex or Suffolk , but the time he was nearly caught his passengers got away and we could n't prove anything . |
| 23 | And just cos we could n't do some questions on the paper she says , Oh you 're not good enough then you should 've learnt it better . |
| 24 | He 's got dog to walk tonight cos we could n't bring him cos the car was full of gear . |
| 25 | Dobson and his mob just laughed you off the street tonight and we ca n't afford that . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ We 've had a flurry of enquiries lately but we ca n't find any file on why the village was evacuated . ’ |
| 27 | Well largely because we could n't afford a house in the area where we both grew up |
| 28 | ‘ Contrary to rumours circulating in the area , the Cambrian News is not in financial difficulties , and we are simply placing the contract for printing the paper elsewhere because we can not justify an investment of around 2m ( pounds ) for new machinery to go tabloid and bring in colour , ’ said Mr Read , whose great grandfather established the company in Aberystwyth in 1890 . |
| 29 | Granted all that richness and diversity , to talk of language as screen may well seem simply perverse , even ungrateful , but just as we ca n't attend to the patterning without also seeing the patterns , the scenes , so the whole virtuoso performance is counterpointed by a performance of a different kind , the intricately woven language screen . |
| 30 | As regards restoration , just as we would not dream of stripping out the original interior of the Blackfriar , by the same token we would not seek to preserve a Thirties estate pub which had long since ceased to address the needs of the community it was built to serve . |