Example sentences of "we be not [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are not anxious to sell the company , but we are in discussion with a variety of people about co-operation and prospective linkages of various sorts . ’ |
| 2 | But Mr Talbot said : ‘ We are not anxious to sell . |
| 3 | We are not anxious to see the situation evolve . |
| 4 | We are not keen to go with one of the large companies . |
| 5 | But we are not obliged to join in a single currency if we do not want to . |
| 6 | We are not obliged to publish such information , and when we do we are entitled to make a reasonable charge . |
| 7 | We are not pressurised to work . ’ |
| 8 | We are not due to visit the hospital until six . |
| 9 | We are not free to deface and destroy the natural world . |
| 10 | Until we know who we are we are not free to become fully involved with others . |
| 11 | But we are not ready to dub it ‘ Guinness ’ yet . |
| 12 | ‘ But we are not ready to become a rubber stamp that only certifies the existence of reforms . |
| 13 | The job of communicating is very important indeed and maybe one of our problems is that we have been doing so much within the business that we are not ready to communicate to the outside world that it perhaps does n't understand sufficiently what our targets are . |
| 14 | We are not likely to want to return to such a severe division made between love and marriage . |
| 15 | There are plenty of these and we are not likely to get rid of them . |
| 16 | We are not likely to find a cause as precisely as the tubercle bacillus can be shown to produce tuberculosis . |
| 17 | In only a very few pages , we have left the twentieth century far behind and discovered that these two descend from the Lombardic heroes mentioned in the Old English poem Widsith ( Aelfwin and Eadwin ) ; and since Aelfvin means ‘ Elf-friend ’ , we are not surprised to find ourselves drifting further back to the times when elves still walked the earth , before Numenor ( the Atlantis of the Tolkien mythology ) had sunk beneath the waves . |
| 18 | We are not surprised to learn that over-specification is widespread , particularly for fill , hardcore and capping layers in road construction . |
| 19 | We are not surprised to learn that over-specification is widespread , particularly for fill , hardcore and capping layers in road construction . |
| 20 | There was always a close relationship between the Armed Forces and the railways so that we are not surprised to learn that many barracks were built by or for Service personnel . |
| 21 | We , society as a whole , must decide what we want school to do ; and if we can not agree on this we are not entitled to complain that schools , and teachers , fail to give us what we want , nor can we hope to find ways to improve the situation . |
| 22 | What we are not entitled to do is to assume that our own mythological conceptions of him are scriptural . |
| 23 | We are not entitled to introduce a new force . |
| 24 | Just as significantly , however , we are not entitled to infer the origins of social phenomena from their current functions . |
| 25 | Still , we are not slow to evangelize . |
| 26 | John Pitt , joint mangaing director of Anchor International , said : ‘ We are not willing to say anything which might prejudice our application . ’ |
| 27 | However his views seem split — ‘ but if we are not willing to rule in our turn , other men will rule out of theirs . |
| 28 | This and that that thing now the because we are not supposed to iron them too much . |
| 29 | It is most unlikely that Wordsworth ever thought of his philosophical ideas as a ‘ Creed ’ ; later he said that we are not supposed to take literally his reference to himself in Tintern Abbey as ‘ a worshipper of Nature ’ . |
| 30 | The Labour party in this county , values the role of small rural schools , but we are not prepared to see urban schools suffer to make sure that urb , rural schools are kept open for the sake of being kept open . |