Example sentences of "we [vb past] not [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm certainly we 'd not anticipated that it would outweigh existing structure plan policies or outweigh existing Policy E two . |
| 2 | We decided not to wait and to content ourselves instead with the street exhibition that day . |
| 3 | For the last few years it was held up by 20 players of outstanding international standard and we did not realise that technically we were dying ’ . |
| 4 | We did not speak until we were back in our garret above the gatehouse . |
| 5 | We did not expect or intend that the project should address issues of this kind . |
| 6 | There would be no point to developing or applying principles of group responsibility if we did not assume that these were connected to judgments about how real people must now act . |
| 7 | Given the diversity of tribunals , commissions , authorities , ministers and inquiries which constitute our administrative system , it would be surprising if we did not conclude that in some instances the rational basis test was the correct stance and in others a test of substitution of judgment . |
| 8 | In respect of in public services , it was a minefield for a long time and perhaps we did not react as we should have done in the early eighties . |
| 9 | We gave them two addresses to which they could write in case we did not return and told them where our more precious belongings were . |
| 10 | We did not claim that there had been any cases of poisoning in Britain , but referred to the numerous American cases ( FDA Drug Bulletin 1977 , vol 7 , p 26 ; New England Journal of Medicine 1979 , vol 300 , p 238 ) . |
| 11 | We did not imagine that our task was going to be easy , but we are angry for being penalised for maintaining our service . |
| 12 | Unfortunately at the press conference our careful recommendations about the importance of Standard English were presented in such a way that many journalists came away with the false impression that we did not mind if children spoke dialect rather than Standard English . |
| 13 | we did not say that Newark was closed , I |
| 14 | Within the inner-city study , we believed that the language might show patterns of differentiation between older and younger speakers and between the sexes , but we did not know that it would , or if it did , what the precise differences would be . |
| 15 | We felt pretty helpless in the train , as we did not know whether any arrangements had been made to meet us at Canton , but at the station we were welcomed by a Min. of Education official , together with a teacher-interpreter from Canton university , who surprised us with his urbane manner , excellent English , and his knowledge that David Owen had just been made the substantive Foreign Secretary to replace Anthony Crossland ( and that , incidentally , is about the last news we have heard about affairs in the U.K. ! ) . |
| 16 | As the train stood on the platform we did not know if we would ever board it . |
| 17 | Now we know differently , having opened our door after dark to persons we did not know or recognise . |
| 18 | For this reason , we did not propose that knowledge about language should have its own profile component . |
| 19 | We did not believe that any of these should be the subject of charity or whim on the part of people more privileged than ourselves in this society . |
| 20 | ‘ We did not believe that we were getting the best range of stock into Dillons , ’ says Adrian Bourne , group managing director for sales . |
| 21 | We did not believe that the issue should have come within that particular article . |
| 22 | Since the colonic tissue was to be analysed by x ray diffraction for another study , BrdUrd could not be used in all animals as we had not established that the label had no effect on x ray scatter , therefore similar segments of colon to those described above were taken from all 40 rats and the DNA content of the epithelium analysed by flow cytometry . |