Example sentences of "[det] [noun] we do not [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 In this case we did not take sufficient care .
2 We need some money we can be sure of , some money we do not have to ask for either from men or from the Department of Health and Social Security .
3 Also , for this effect we do not require a single delay time .
4 Exactly how many rival organisations were established during this period we do not know .
5 For some purposes we do not need to know which modes of vibration are responsible for which IR or Raman bands , but sometimes we must go further , and assign the bands in the spectrum to particular modes .
6 At this juncture we do not wish to pursue in detail the issues raised by changing the budget date to November .
7 For this reason we do not believe in formal homework on a regular basis . ’
8 For this reason we did not work with families who had lost an infant : instead we investigated the ordinary patterns of beliefs about infants and their care in two different populations , mothers of Welsh and Bangladeshi infants in Cardiff .
9 For some reason we do not think in such simplistic terms and did not dismiss the Director of Licensing at the CAA from office when the pilot of a Vanguard trying to land in a snowstorm at Basle failed to carry out a successful instrument approach and killed all those poor housewives out on a day shopping trip .
10 It is impossible to doubt anything unless there is some thing we do not doubt — our own assumptions .
11 At this stage we do not know whether the " dayes ' are general ( which would imply that the missing verb is are ) or particular ; but we get a clearer picture when we come to the second clause " when I / Shin " d " .
12 ‘ When we hear such sounds we do not pay attention to things like pitch and timbre .
13 How long it took the different ancestors of these very different animals to evolve such tongues we do not know for there is no fossil evidence of any antiquity to tell us , but it must have been several million years .
14 proper returns adequate for our audit have been received from all branches we did not visit ;
15 There are too many forces we do not control — nor indeed seek to control .
16 Since the object of the session in the first place was to play a part in helping the patient to deal successfully with a problem which has been troubling him , provided the session fulfils that role we do not need to worry unduly about whether it was a real regression experience or not ( although , as I have already stated , I feel quite strongly that the majority of cases are indeed genuine ) .
17 Whether the ancient amphibians overcame those difficulties we do not know .
18 I should mention that if for any reason we did not go ahead or had to withdraw from publication , we reserve the right to give you adequate notice of our intention .
19 ‘ We do send crime prevention officers to halls of residence to give advice but at the same time we do not want to alarm them as the number of street offences is not increasingly dramatically . ’
20 As we explained in chapter 1 , for most variables we do not have such direct observations and can not therefore carry out the tests .
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