Example sentences of "is [conj] we [vb mod] [not/n't] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first one is John Stuart Mill 's objection which is that we ca n't leave everything to the people . |
| 2 | We spend a decade conditioning ourselves to act in a certain way , with a certain decisiveness , caution , thoroughness , and the result is that we ca n't shake it off at half past six and revert to some more natural state . |
| 3 | is that we ca n't move until we know what sort of structure is being offered , the general offer of structure is to take advice because we , we could then but unless we know what is forthcoming we do n't |
| 4 | ‘ The nice thing about fighting a seat like this is that we ca n't lose since we 're coming from rock bottom . |
| 5 | What 's so awful about this situation is that we ca n't have a funeral . |
| 6 | The biggest problem of all is that we ca n't look forward and that a lot of the problems , being problems are happening now , and happened since the er the first of January that should of happened they should of happened in th , in th , in the er at least the three months before the end of last year , if not more ! |
| 7 | It 's all classified , but what it amounts to is that we wo n't play the Great Game over here and they wo n't play it in the UK . |
| 8 | Yeah , what I like , the thing with this one is that we would n't have again would we ? |
| 9 | It has to be possible to dream and speak the unthinkable , for the only thing that we do know is that we shall not know what tomorrow 's world will be like . |
| 10 | Right , so that 's all we want to look at with regards learning styles I think the key thing to remember is that we must n't fall into the trap , because it 's our learning style if we actually put together our training which reflects our style . |
| 11 | The second important point is that we must not treat the institutional population as a single group . |
| 12 | Although erm his second idea second way of limiting the possibilities on is rather more difficult to accept now and his claim is that we should n't pay members of parliament , that people who go to parliament ought to be doing it out of duty and not out of er interest . |
| 13 | Apart from confirmation that in dictatorships , scientific corruption flourishes together with the more venal kinds , perhaps it is that we should not accept the recent predictions of Argentina 's early possession of an independent nuclear arsenal without some reservation . |
| 14 | Another reason that we should be against the Labour party is that we should not put them in a position to buck the trend . |
| 15 | In the last sentence erm my view is that we should not wait for an application to build on this site . |
| 16 | The lesson is that we should not judge people by their reputation , without knowing a great deal more about them . |
| 17 | The first is that we can not offer employment , as an LEA can if it decides , as ILEA and Havering have done , for instance , to recruit directly abroad . |
| 18 | ‘ The bad is that we can not expect sharp short term demand recovery , certainly not recovery pulled through by exports ’ , he explained . |
| 19 | The implication of our question is that we can not explain the decline of the Liberal party unless we mention the other factors . |
| 20 | As with problem solving , the difficulty with asking the right — questions is that we can not do so unless we already know the answer . |
| 21 | ‘ The problem with recycling is that we can not determine the colour of waste material in advance . |
| 22 | We can distinguish sceptical arguments which , although they attempt to deprive us of knowledge ( or even of justified belief ) still allow that we understand the propositions whose truth we are no longer allowed to know , from those which claim that the reason why we do n't know their truth is that we can not understand them . |
| 23 | I do n't expect the heartbeat award scheme to suffer , I will be in touch with Matthew fairly closely to ensure that , but I think the position of the labour group is that we can not support these recommendations as they are but we offer you a compromise solution . |
| 24 | The current problem is that we can not predict which of today 's options will become tomorrow 's mainstream . |
| 25 | But the plain truth is that we can not say what was really done for the children or what the results were . |
| 26 | The point is that we can not circumnavigate or dispose of these problems by resorting to the familiar logical ploy of treating questions about experiences as if they were simply questions about the logical properties of sentences in which we ordinarily talk about experiences . |
| 27 | The answer is that we can not know or , rather , that there is no simple solution to this problem . |
| 28 | Another thing we have to consider is that we can not afford to dispense with farm animals altogether . |
| 29 | My reply is that we can not afford not to do so . |
| 30 | Well the point is if we ca n't find enough players |