Example sentences of "that we [modal v] not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We accept that we might not get very much for it , but on the other hand we could get more , ’ says Julie Widlake . |
| 2 | ‘ They are just black shadows in the vegetation , ’ he told me , increasingly worried that we might not get any shots at all . |
| 3 | If we were to add those provisions to the Bill , I fear that we might not fall within the long title of the Bill . |
| 4 | Campbell concluded that we may not see the effect of economic recovery for at least a year — perhaps not until 1993 . |
| 5 | We did not know what the future might hold and had to face the possibility that we may not see each other again . |
| 6 | The rule is firmly established that we may not look at Hansard and in general I agree with it , for reasons which I gave last year in Beswick v. Beswick . |
| 7 | It appears that we may not have long to go . |
| 8 | Well it 's against all training that we receive , there is no need for it it is just something that we would not do . |
| 9 | Her sons would often invite me to some remote corner where we hoped against hope that we would not disturb the siesta of the compound , though we were rarely successful . |
| 10 | To say we were physically exhausted does not begin to describe how we felt when we finally made it , and it was only a small consolation to hear that we would not start until 9 am the following morning . |
| 11 | As discussed at our initial meeting , you have asked that we would not inform your auditors of our involvement on this assignment . |
| 12 | The agreed position of the Government was that we would not move over to private health insurance but would seek to make the health service as effective as possible . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | just that issue was raised that we would not want to see demolition of Franklyns that block held up by this . |
| 15 | After carefully reconsidering the issue , may I say that we would not want , as a matter of practice , to publish the proceeds from each company sold . |
| 16 | Many parents would be shocked by rap songs about men mutilating female genitalia , with graphic descriptions that we would not reproduce in reporting a criminal trial let alone an article on popular culture . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Fully rational reasoning , then , would provide an objective , consensual determination of legal rules ( though not , of course , any guarantee that we would not break them ! ) . |
| 19 | Its original function , according to Seth , was to make us feel bad , by briefly separating us from our sense of love and connectedness , so that we would not repeat a harmful act . |
| 20 | At this meeting it was decided by the Committee to approve the Constitution of the European Federation of Funeral Services on behalf of the N.A.F.D. As we hold the Presidency of E.F.E.S. it was decided that we would not vote in favour of any one particular city for the location of the registered office for E.F.F.S. , but would endorse the decision of the majority over this matter . |
| 21 | Hermione Lee is admirably judicious about all this , pointing out both that we have a perfect right to say things about a writer that we would not have said in their lifetime , and that ‘ to account for Cather 's fiction by reading it as an encoding of covert , even guilty sexuality is , I think , both patronising and narrow . ’ |
| 22 | Erm a and f at first we had one or two people coming in , but then it , it , it dr it dropped off very quickly , and after about three months , I think , we decided we were n't getting enough take-up , w that we would not have the sessions in the flats any more , but that we would encourage people to come to the Law Centre if they had any problems . |
| 23 | If we did not have certain terms , for instance if we did not have a word ‘ orange ’ as well as a word ‘ yellow ’ , it is easy to imagine that we would not have a concept of the corresponding colours ; indeed the fact that there is nothing natural or necessary about colour terms is proved , as one of Saussure 's successors argued ( Hjelmslev 1961 : 52ff. ) by the fact that different languages divide up the colour spectrum differently . |
| 24 | I , I think that we should assume that we would not get paid time . |
| 25 | Some people had expressed the view that this trip came too close to the Central Wales Line excursion and it seemed clear that we would not get enough people to justify the expense of a coach . |
| 26 | Gravity is the weakest of the four forces by a long way ; it is so weak that we would not notice it at all were it not for two special properties that it has : it can act over large distances , and it is always attractive . |
| 27 | Merely that we would not support the application of such a policy . |
| 28 | There is , to put it crudely , a firm intuition that the self we can identify with our immediate consciousness is a unity , in that we would not count as being that self any part or module of ourselves which was put forward as a candidate for being a conscious entity . |
| 29 | No ! he would shout , and make it clear that we would not discuss it … he used an expletive that I have not used , indicating that he did not want me to raise that subject with him . ’ |
| 30 | Anne was not impressed , since she had predicted that we would not run out of cash ! |