Example sentences of "we [vb base] not [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , if we say not ‘ dog ’ but ‘ My — dog-Rover-with — the — white — spots- and — the-stumpy-tail ’ , there can be no doubt that we intend not only a specific but a unique reference . |
| 2 | Worse than this , we tend not only to limit ourselves to looking at faces , but also to be preoccupied with whether they smile or not . |
| 3 | She also conceded , however , ‘ We tend not routinely to inform GPs . |
| 4 | By ‘ real labour costs ’ we mean not just the real wage , but the total cost of employing labour , including the employers ' National Insurance contributions , deflated by an appropriate price index , and with an allowance being made for changes in labour productivity . |
| 5 | We delight not just in surfaces , |
| 6 | If we chronicle not how Eliot 's reputation was advanced , but how Eliot 's poetry ( and all modern poetry ) came to be understood , the part played by Allen Tate bulks very large and honourably . |
| 7 | It is salutary to learn how we appear not simply through our own eyes , but through the eyes of an objective assessor . |
| 8 | As human beings we consist not only of physical bodies but of minds , emotions and spirits too . |
| 9 | We export not only form and content but western economics-based theories of media regulation that serve the interests of transnationals rather than those of peoples . |
| 10 | We plead not simply that God will change our circumstances , but that he will change us so that we can become catalysts , through whom his plans can be implemented . |
| 11 | We indicate not only the location and amenities , but also the number of bedrooms in the hotel , and whether it has a lift . |
| 12 | Foxes were ‘ humanely snared ’ ( a contradiction in terms ) and handed over to ‘ various voluntary welfare organisations ’ ; they were then ‘ transported we know not where ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ Draw them under shadow ’ may mean no more than ‘ pull them out of the hall and into the dark ’ , but it implies also ‘ going we know not where ’ , dying and being handed over for ever to the powers of evil . |
| 14 | What Tolkien wanted to concentrate on , obviously , was death : more precisely perhaps on why people love this world and want so strongly to stay in it when it is an inescapable part of their nature ‘ to die and go we know not where ’ . |
| 15 | Locke aroused considerable controversy with his suggestion that ‘ since we know not wherein thinking consists ’ , it may be , for all we know , that nothing more than matter is necessary for thought , and that God might have ‘ given to some systems of matter fitly disposed , a power to perceive and think ’ . |
| 16 | Where we have records of such official recognition within the central social organization , we find not only — as we might expect — differences between different societies but also historical differences , between different forms of a continuing society . |
| 17 | As consumers , we pay not only for labour but also for land . |
| 18 | It is important to understand that language is used , in fiction , to project a world " beyond language " , in that we use not only our knowledge of language , the meanings of words etc , but also our general knowledge of the real world , to furnish it . |
| 19 | In a profound sense we doubt not only because we are ignorant of something but because we are absolutely certain of nothing . |
| 20 | If you find that the results are likely to be disastrous , and that the principles underlying it , which we detect not only from the official utterances of members of the Government but also from the more indiscreet explanations of so-called supporters of the government are pernicious and that the whole matter is one that has never been duly referred to the people of this country , then I venture to say that your Lordships have a clear duty before you — not to decree the final extinction of the Bill — because that is not what we propose , but to insist that before it becomes law an authoritative expression of the opinion of the electors of the United Kingdom shall have reached us with regard to it . |
| 21 | But the rapport between us and the women in the group was instantaneous , probably because we share not just a language and culture but a common experience of racism . |
| 22 | We are disjointed in ordering , and we laugh not in meant mockery , but nevertheless irritatingly . |
| 23 | Nobody understands us : we do n't even understand ourselves . |
| 24 | … we do n't even have the elementary conditions to start to develop our national economy on a large scale . |
| 25 | We do n't even do soundchecks now ! |
| 26 | Often we do n't even know the brand name of the bass we 're using . |
| 27 | We do n't even talk among ourselves . |
| 28 | We do n't even discriminate against those who send in their entries in their own handwriting , however much I have been urged to do so by the typesetters . |
| 29 | We do n't even know what ‘ it ’ was . |
| 30 | We do n't even have sex on holiday , when from what some of my friends with young children say , that seems to be a time when they catch up . |