Example sentences of "we [modal v] not [vb infin] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We may not go on to assume that informed opinion then had already recognised the nature of the prospective problem , nor to attribute to the reforming Whigs a reactionary motive which depends on that assumption . |
| 2 | He said too : ‘ I shall see if we may not go back to Nice in the autumn , or Austria or Switzerland . |
| 3 | If we do not invest our oil reserves wisely , for the future , we may not get off so lightly next time . |
| 4 | It 's our Party and we should not give up without a fight . |
| 5 | I would suggest that we can deal with these parties if they arise but that we should not hold up the negotiations with the top four . |
| 6 | There is also the oft repeated argument that we should not sit down together at the table until after unity is accomplished . |
| 7 | That is one of the principal arguments of those on the Government Benches who say that we should not sign up , that we can not say at this stage whether we are capable , as an economy , of participating without damage in a single currency . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 9 | We must not move on until we have understood that this philosophical impetus to the modern age is the rise of a new humanism with man at the centre . |
| 10 | The consoling shrink tells George that , ‘ We must not rule out the possibility that you are a bird — a loony bird . |
| 11 | Dr Kalim Siddiqui , who heads the self-styled Moslem parliament in Britain , said : ‘ We must not fight over issues in the sub-continent . ’ |
| 12 | Unlike other tourists , we must not linger over these delights . |
| 13 | If we offer this kind of text to children , and if the gulf between the two languages is to be bridged , then we must not play down the magnitude of the learning task which children face . |
| 14 | And said , oh , let's go and find a cup of coffee but , have a bit of a walk and walk down to conference but we 'll not walk down the prom |
| 15 | The DUC found the group it was looking for in the Oxford-based Political Ecology Research Group : ‘ They more or less said to us , ‘ We 'll not take on your issue if we decide that in the upshot our report will be favourable to the mining companies . |
| 16 | Yeah well , when we go to Canada we might not come back ! |
| 17 | Without that money we would not carry on and we could not carry out our work effectively . |
| 18 | ‘ We could not move back home and we had reached the end of Palestine . ’ |
| 19 | We could not sit down and talk with him . |
| 20 | For example , we could not set up an experiment to test the effect on young babies of being left in complete isolation , except for being fed regularly . |
| 21 | ‘ The workload for both Barry Newbery and myself was tremendous , we both felt we could not go on much longer , and suggested that a third Designer be included on the team . ’ |
| 22 | I am afraid we could not agree over certain … artistic matters . |
| 23 | We could not take on a more difficult nation that Iran . |
| 24 | But almost as soon as our church team was formed , with the desire of being a marvellous example of love in action , we found we could not get on together , let alone with the world ! |
| 25 | Mr Blunkett , blind from birth , said : ‘ He was extremely rude and abusive — insisting we could not get in . |
| 26 | We could not get in to see Gracie Fields and , together with hundreds of troops , we stood outside and they relayed her performance , I listened to this glorious voice singing " Sally " and all the rest of her favourite songs , and then walking the other 11 miles back — in flying boots . |
| 27 | The long dark evenings , the unfinished building work , the awful autumn weather , and the fact that we could not get out made these interpersonal difficulties , for which I was not prepared , much worse . |
| 28 | Sadly , it was inevitable that we could not keep up the pace against Twitchit Albion , especially with so many of our squad approaching the twilight of their careers . |
| 29 | Secondly , the Government have evaded parliamentary questions by placing the Benefits Agency and other agencies beyond our reach : we could not find out the answers without going through ever more tortuous procedures . |
| 30 | But he said : ‘ We need not go on confirming that day after day . |