Example sentences of "we [modal v] not go " in BNC.
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| 1 | We may not go on to assume that informed opinion then had already recognised the nature of the prospective problem , nor to attribute to the reforming Whigs a reactionary motive which depends on that assumption . |
| 2 | He said too : ‘ I shall see if we may not go back to Nice in the autumn , or Austria or Switzerland . |
| 3 | It is important that constituents should be able to consult us about confidential matters , but surely we should not go so far as to give comfort to murderers and bombers , as has been suggested . |
| 4 | We should not go so far as to hold a referendum , but the people must have the final say . |
| 5 | We should not go too far and argue that the alleged conflict between the monied and landed interests was nothing more than a propagandist 's fiction . |
| 6 | ‘ We must not go too far , ’ said Holmes . |
| 7 | But perhaps we might not go there again — for a while anyway . ’ |
| 8 | Robert Carnwath feared that the Act was so confused that we could not go to court with a realistic chance of winning . |
| 9 | ‘ The workload for both Barry Newbery and myself was tremendous , we both felt we could not go on much longer , and suggested that a third Designer be included on the team . ’ |
| 10 | We could not go for a walk that afternoon . |
| 11 | My father , my mother and I were often asked to spend Sunday afternoons in the country , but sometimes , unless a horse and cart were sent to collect us , we could not go because the families who invited us lived too far away . |
| 12 | We dare not go a-hunting for fear of little men . ’ |
| 13 | Lévi-Strauss has rendered social anthropology an invaluable service in emphasizing the significance of such contrasting motifs ; although we need not go so far as him and turn our subject into an esoteric animal , vegetable or mineral parlour-game in which every card is a joker and can assume whatever meaning the player likes . |
| 14 | Though we need not go along all the way with this characteristically provocative view ( and even Keller found ‘ a few playable exceptions ’ ) , I confess to wondering whether this is not one of those issues motivated less by musical need than by the pious opportunism of which we saw so much in the bicentenary year . |
| 15 | For reasons we need not go into , Lord Exeter successfully prevented the main line from entering the town : it was taken through Peterborough instead . |
| 16 | But we need not go so far as that ; it will suffice to suppose that firms rise and fall , but that the ‘ representative ’ firm remains always of about the same size , as does the representative tree of a virgin forest . [ … ] |
| 17 | Now we need not go into too much detail about digestion and absorption , but a few basic facts should be noted . |
| 18 | But he said : ‘ We need not go on confirming that day after day . |
| 19 | We shall not go into the variety of psychological mechanisms which convert terrible actuality into pleasing imagination , but there is one of them , sado-masochism , which demands attention because it explains why tellers of harsh truths so often offend not only our sentimentality but our moral sensibility . |
| 20 | The debate on the definition of power is a long-running one in the social sciences , and we shall not go into it in detail here . |
| 21 | At this point Boswell records having experienced a qualm regarding Johnson 's continuance of the journey , because the previous night Johnson had said , ‘ If we must ride much , we shall not go , and there 's an end o n't . ’ |
| 22 | At all events we shall not go wrong in assuming that it is not without good reason that he tells us of so impressive a roll call of nationalities on the day of Pentecost ( 2:5–11 ) . |
| 23 | We shall not go there . |
| 24 | There are thus various regimes of the double diffusive convection in which different detailed patterns occur within the same overall picture , but we shall not go into these details here . |
| 25 | We shall not go into any of the general theory here . |
| 26 | Certainly , it is important to study bureaucracies as institutions in their own right , even if we would not go as far as the poet Alexander Pope who wrote : |
| 27 | thank you situation are appointed jointly by the County Council and the County and effectively these consultations and of that er appointment and the following the last Committee we agreed with the er detail and of the and we also agreed that we would not go ahead with the which until we have seen the result of the consultation and therefore there still outstanding as whether we wish to action the not . |
| 28 | er , I 'd believe in theory we could because the lease provides us or gives us the opportunity to do so , but we would not go against the wishes of the residence |
| 29 | He left no doubts about BMW 's position : ‘ We will not go back to F1 . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ If we play like that in our last four games we will not go down . ’ |