Example sentences of "we be not [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If we are not to waste the two days , we ought to focus on something concrete . |
| 2 | This is vital if we are to continue to lose weight and inches at a satisfactory rate , and essential if we are not to return to our previous shape . |
| 3 | We are not to suppose of this machine that when a chocolate bar does not come out there exists a causal circumstance which necessitates the failure . |
| 4 | We are not to argue , though , that since ‘ I ’ does not refer to the man René Descartes it has some other , more intangible , thing to refer to . |
| 5 | Geach says : ‘ We are not to argue , though , that since ‘ I ’ does not refer to the man René Descartes it has some other , more intangible thing to refer to . ’ |
| 6 | We are not to argue that ‘ I ’ refers to an intangible , invisible , inaudible Cartesian spiritual substance . |
| 7 | Can comparison of uses of ‘ I ’ with uses of ‘ here ’ help us to see why we are not to argue thus ? |
| 8 | It is Joe Lawley 's opinion that we have no option but to dismantle it , but this has to be done with very great care if we are not to compound the damage done by sixty years of weather and so destroy it . |
| 9 | We should know something about the periodicity of the variables we are monitoring if we are not to risk either unnecessarily detailed data collection or aliasing of trends ; |
| 10 | When ‘ man ’ , ‘ stone ’ , or ‘ living creature ’ is said to be ‘ universal ’ , we are not to understand that ‘ man , stone ’ , etc. ever was or can be universal , but only that these words , ‘ living creature ’ , ‘ stone ’ , etc. , are universal names , that is , names common to many things . |
| 11 | The impersonal imagery is essential if we are not to think of God as a person like ourselves . |
| 12 | Those Conservative Members and the electorate know that we are not to blame for the mess that we are in . |
| 13 | Whilst legislative reforms such as changes in the abortion laws and the law governing homosexuality are viewed as essentially liberal measures , we are not to assume therefore that this was indicative of a period of unproblematically increasing sexual liberation . |
| 14 | The Government must recognise that there needs to be a positive approach to young offenders if we are not to encourage them to grow into hardened and repetitive offenders . |
| 15 | It is the South-east that needs new settlements , if we are not to end up with a town-and-country muesli of interest to no one . |
| 16 | They represent , in Russell 's colourful phrase , the realm of " logical fictions " , and while the life as we know it obviously would be inconceivable without great many of such " fictions " ( they include , among other things , all the spatio-temporal objects of our everyday experience ) , there are a large number of others which are neither very useful nor indispensable and should be carefully guarded against if we are not to end up with an ontology crowded with all sorts of phoney entities . |
| 17 | When we have cares , we are not to look to pagan religious practices and philosophies for respite , but we are to be as the Apostle Peter put it ‘ Casting all your care upon him , for he careth for you . ’ |
| 18 | The regent has said , even if it takes all day , we are not to appear at the royal palace or the Savoy until we have something more to tell him ! ’ |
| 19 | We are not to know that new methods of correlation will not he developed ( as spores , hystrichospheres , etc. , have been developed in recent years ) to correlate the least promising.looking formations , Ultimately perhaps we shall have a little black box into which we only have to pop our rock specimen for its age to he read automatically on a dial . |
| 20 | If we are not to infer from Anderson 's breach of Grice 's Co-operative Principle that he is deliberately being rude ( unlikely , when McKendrick is a complete stranger to him ) then it is most likely to be seen as evidence of his vagueness or , less favourably , his self-centredness . |
| 21 | ‘ How silly we are not to have thought of that before , ’ she said . |
| 22 | If we are not to have too few choices at some point , then we are bound to have too many at others . |
| 23 | Looking back and sorting out are essential if we are not to experience the pantomime dame 's discomfort . |
| 24 | Largely unprotected and little understood , these populations of small whales need immediate investigation and protection if we are n't to repeat the dreadful and potentially catastrophic mistakes we 've already made with large whales . |
| 25 | Sladen waited nervously for somebody to say something , then asked tentatively : ‘ Well … if we are n't to discover who , is it possible to find out something about why ? ’ |
| 26 | Well I think it 's an important issue , we need to sq we need to squeeze every , every pound out that we can if we 're not to if we 're not to affect our service level . |
| 27 | And now , ’ he went on curtly , ‘ if we 're not to continue discussing your family heirlooms , do you think you could spare a moment to run through some figures with me ? ’ |
| 28 | But we do need the slave trade if we 're not to go under . |
| 29 | We 'll need somewhere dry to spend the night if we 're not to go down with pneumonia . |
| 30 | He said we 're not to go any more on our own . |