Example sentences of "we [vb mod] not [vb infin] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A tough looker is not necessarily a tough fighter , and we should not do him the favour of allowing his warpaint to add to our problems . |
| 2 | What the right-wingers are saying is that we will have the trade unions ' money but we will not give 'em the right to vote . |
| 3 | It is hardly surprising that a tiny minority of the signatories are now beginning to say , ’ We will not do what the treaty calls upon us to do ; we will do what the United Kingdom does . ’ |
| 4 | Due to the constraints of the Trove system we can not show you the policies as they are actually printed . |
| 5 | We can not tell who the members of such a union might be . |
| 6 | But we can not smell what the dog can smell , nor interpret such scents , body postures and barks in the way our dog does . |
| 7 | Perhaps by contemplating you will find something that is wrong in your proposition … dig the gold and look at the country , but we can not give you the country you ask for . |
| 8 | We can not know what the future will bring ; nor did he . |
| 9 | We can not say what the outcome of a meeting of the Defence Committee might have been , or whether the course of events would have been altered if it had met in September 1981 ; but , in our view , it could have been advantageous , and fully in line with Whitehall practice , for Ministers to have reviewed collectively at that time , or in the months immediately ahead , the current negotiating position ; the implications of the conflict between the attitudes of the Islanders and the aims of the Junta ; and the longer-term policy options in relation to the dispute . |
| 10 | We can not say what the scope of such a review should be in respect of the machinery 's wider preoccupations , but we think that it should look at two aspects in particular . |
| 11 | We can not say what the occupation of Germany will involve at the moment , or what will be our obligations in the East and at home . |
| 12 | We can not allow ourselves the empty luxury of doubt . ’ |
| 13 | If we take such a " bat-detector " out to a clearing where a bat is feeding , we shall hear when each bat pulse is emitted , although we can not hear what the pulses really " sound " like . |