Example sentences of "not [vb infin] that we [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do not think that we shall . |
| 2 | That being so , I do not think that we ought to attempt beforehand to classify all the occasions upon which it may be proper to make such an order … |
| 3 | I do not think that we should be against such moral principles . |
| 4 | For reasons to which I shall refer later I do not think that we should do that . |
| 5 | Clem Attlee nationalised the Bank of England because he did not think that we should have rule by central bankers . |
| 6 | I do not think that we should either underestimate or understate the magnitude of its consequences . |
| 7 | ‘ The Commission does not think that we should expect an increase of prices … |
| 8 | I do not think that we can turn back the tide of secularisation altogether in the area of dying , but we can call a halt to it by giving some serious thought to practices within our society and churches . |
| 9 | I do not think that we can achieve more in this forum . |
| 10 | With regard to the need for direct and close contact , I do not think that we could have had a clearer example of that than the visit of President Yeltsin and the very straight talking between my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister and the president . |
| 11 | So she smiled on and stood there and in exasperation Mrs Browning said , ‘ I do not know that we should continue this discussion , Wilson . |
| 12 | It does not show that we can not start , but only that our initial moves will need to be reassessed later . |
| 13 | A spokesman for Telecom Eireann said : ‘ The law does not provide that we can do anything to stop this . |
| 14 | We had the opportunity to make a fundamental change , and I could not believe that we would allow that opportunity to slip away . |
| 15 | I do not believe that we should cast aside at all lightly the all-party support for these methods . |
| 16 | But I do not believe that we can assemble a majority for anything as negative as ‘ get the Tories out ’ . |
| 17 | I certainly do not believe that we can win anything by a formal arrangement with the Liberal Democratic Party . |
| 18 | Rommetveit does not believe that we can understand meaning by paring an utterance down to its ‘ core meaning ’ and then following up variations on it , as the formal linguists are attempting to do . |
| 19 | Whilst recognising that the worship of a small , dispirited congregation is of importance to God , it does not believe that we can acquiesce in despair or even discouragement . |
| 20 | I do not believe that we can because there is no authority to do so . |
| 21 | I do not believe that we could in any event disclose the existence of the GEN groups . |
| 22 | If inflation is too much money pursuing too few goods , it does not follow that we must — as we have been doing in this country — reduce the supply of money all the time and thus have the disastrous consequences for industry that have occurred . |
| 23 | Admittedly most of us become egoists in a struggle for mere physical survival , — starving men fighting for food , drowning men climbing into an over-weighted boat ; but it does not follow that we can become egoists from principle in conditions where basic human needs are satisfied . |
| 24 | But it did not follow that we could now relax , least of all in Britain . |
| 25 | The convergence I have been exploring does not suggest that we should collapse materialism and psychoanalysis into each other . |
| 26 | William the Conqueror was a cruel and harsh ruler , and I do not suggest that we should harry the north ; but during his reign , although people were fearful of the monarch , they were not fearful of their fellow citizens . |
| 27 | Even if we do discover a complete unified theory , it would not mean that we would be able to predict events in general , for two reasons . |
| 28 | In the past , this did not mean that we would not move from company to company , it most certainly did not mean that we ha that we thought we had a job for life , but it did mean that we expected a degree of permanence and improvement as part of the reward for our endeavours and labour . |
| 29 | This does not mean that we shall shy away from tackling difficult subjects that may cause offence . |
| 30 | When I say we must accept " the general outline of Darwinian theory " I do not mean that we must accept the dogma of gradualism which Darwin felt to be crucial but which is now becoming increasingly suspect . |