Example sentences of "we [vb mod] [not/n't] [vb infin] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said too : ‘ I shall see if we may not go back to Nice in the autumn , or Austria or Switzerland . |
| 2 | We should not rely simply on price mechanism alone , but reduce output and link it to markets to balance supply and demand . |
| 3 | There is good reason why we should not speak ill of the dead but no good reason why we should not think it , if it seems to be necessary . |
| 4 | It 's our Party and we should not give up without a fight . |
| 5 | Hart exhorts us that ‘ we should not cherish even as an ideal a rule so detailed that no new choices arise at the point of application ’ .6 Unger remarks that ‘ language is no longer credited with the fixidity of categories and the transparent representation of the world that would make formalism plausible in legal reasoning or in ideas about justice ’ . |
| 6 | Does the Prime Minister agree that although there is scope for compromise on many matters at Maastricht , the one issue on which it is impossible to compromise is the difference between those who believe that Britain could and should join in a single currency and those who believe that we should not do so at any price and that we should never even have joined the exchange rate mechanism ? |
| 7 | It is tempting to put this all down to a simple lexical ambiguity , but we should not do so before remarking that while question ( 44 ) can correspond to either version , ( 45 ) can only match the " unacquainted " version . |
| 8 | Let us be clear that we should not think merely of the Europe of the Twelve . |
| 9 | ‘ But I shall be making it quite clear to the Government that we should not lose out in Scotland as a consequence of the possibility that only one Objective 1 area could be added from the UK . ’ |
| 10 | It would be good for the Hong Kong citizens , and it would be inconsistent for Thatcher not to do this , since she has said , for the Falklands , that a people should be able to choose their own government , and we should n't give in to dictatorships . |
| 11 | When we allow people into the country , be they middle class or poor , we must not run away with the idea of helping them . |
| 12 | There is truth , it is possible at least to advance towards it , we must n't sit down in what Hume called ‘ a forlorn scepticism ’ , erm it will require great courage to pursue it , but only by pursuing it shall mankind prosper . |
| 13 | We must n't drop off like that again . |
| 14 | ‘ Look , we must n't get on to chattering about your lurid past . |
| 15 | ‘ We ca n't burn it in the grate — Dad might come back , we might n't clean up in time . |
| 16 | The trouble was , we could believe in the Continent being overrun again , but we could n't face up to it happening here . |
| 17 | ‘ I mind we 've had snow , we could n't walk round in it , we had to dig tunnels ! |
| 18 | I , I do n't think I ever said that we could n't go ahead with it this year , I merely pointed out , I merely |
| 19 | And that would be one more bar we could n't go back to . |
| 20 | We could n't go home for a month . |
| 21 | We could n't see much from the window . |
| 22 | We could n't wait around for the magic day when the men turned to us and said , ‘ OK girls , now it 's your turn . ’ |
| 23 | When that happened , we could n't keep up with the mortgage payments so we lost the house . ’ |
| 24 | We could n't live there with it in that state . ’ |
| 25 | We had , we tried a union here years ago , we could n't get on with it . |
| 26 | As a family we could n't get away from school quick enough to try and earn a bob or two for to help my mother . |
| 27 | We could n't get out of our houses for two days . ’ |
| 28 | It was awful — we could n't get out of there quick enough ! |
| 29 | Well I had learnt shorthand and typing at school but erm the money was necessary at home you see , and er with my sister working there , at H and T Hornes , er she spoke for me and er I had an interview and and they put me up in the nursery , we used to call it the nursery see because we were all fourteens up there and er then they called it the cylinder shop and er my foreman was a fella name Archie and erm everything was very very strict indeed , we could not move away from our board you could n't speak to the next one that was working by you , and er there was a fella named Mr and he was he , I did n't work for him I worked for Mr , but some you cou you were afraid to move because of this man and he he he 'd stare at you and he 'd look at you and anyway erm they put me assembling and it was very interesting indeed , there was a tall stand on , we called it the bench , a tall stand with a screw on the top and then to as begin to assemble the locks you had to take what we would call the body , screw it into the er little on the stand and then we had tweezers , there were , in the body there were five springs and then you had to have five breast pins and when you got the springs in you .. we have to have a plug at the back so as we could put each pin and push the plug over that a dummy plug we called it and so that was five pins were in and then there was a ball er when that , when we came to put it in our vice , we had to put the V I C E not V O voice . |
| 30 | We could not agree more with that ; we proposed it on 13 |