Example sentences of "we [modal v] not say that " in BNC.
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| 1 | We must not say that integrity is a special virtue of politics because the state or community is a distinct entity , but that the community should be seen as a distinct moral agent because the social and intellectual practices that treat community in this way should be protected . |
| 2 | And then , I mean , 'cos we dare n't say that to accountant know , to have 'ouse valued , 'cos what 's point in , I mean , anybody said to us , er , get it sent off , you 'll find , you 're , somebody will insure ya . |
| 3 | Well , I mean actually , we would n't say that to him if he stuck something up in his front garden , that 's the reality ; people imagine that we have powers that we do n't have . |
| 4 | And perhaps , today we would not say that men actually hate women , but there are n't is n't much obli , er evidence of their respect . |
| 5 | While we ca n't say that we are in complete agreement with Barry Graham 's ‘ with one bound , IBM was free ’ analysis of the company 's manifold problems and its prospects , written up in today 's page two , there is no doubt that IBM Corp is suffering from a deep crisis of confidence , and his messianic defence of the mainframe makes it quite clear that the man who should be running IBM in succession to John Akers is — Barry Graham . |
| 6 | We ca n't say that it occupies the same addresses in all species , because we ca n't meaningfully compare address labels across species . |
| 7 | ‘ I suppose , ’ continued Rose , looking around hopelessly , ‘ we ca n't say that the top table had a different menu . |
| 8 | Without democracy we would n't be able to say who should rule , with democracy we can we can say these people because we voted for them and that 's it , we ca n't say these people interests we ca n't say that these people act in common good although if they do very badly we 'll try and recall them , all we can say is they 're there we need , what we need is authority structures , we need the structures more than the people occupying the roles , someone 's got to occupy the roles and this is the only way we 've got of appointing them . |
| 9 | Section er , I was very surprised indeed that er Hilary asking for a review of the service because in fact all one 's experience and I am sure as well tells us that this is a success story , it is something that petition after petition that we 've asking to keep it that way , shows that it is one of the services that the County provides which is very much appreciated by the recipients and we ca n't say that in all County Councils ' services but you can say it about er the section seventeen and I think you ought to acknowledge that Chairman . |
| 10 | We can not say that having faith in Christ makes life easy . |
| 11 | In the first place , we can not say that the coins recovered from a site , whether by excavation or otherwise , represent a cross-section of coins in use on that site , even though it is generally true that coins are dropped in proportion to the amount of times they are handled or passed from hand to hand . |
| 12 | Even now , almost a decade into the project , we can not say that the monster does or does not exist . |
| 13 | And we can not say that one way of perceiving things is more real than another . |
| 14 | We can not say that there is a separate , solid , objective world which different creatures perceive in different ways . |
| 15 | But yet we can not say that this notional world of human scientific description is the more fundamental physical reality to which all creatures relate . |
| 16 | Hence , although we can not say that every material ought to have the same strength , we can say that , very approximately , all materials ought to have the same elastic breaking strain . |
| 17 | However , she points out that ‘ from a linguistic point of view we can only say that speech and writing are different : we can not say that one is superior to the other ’ ( ibid . ) . |
| 18 | We can not say that " eight " is more precise , in the context , than " seven " ( nor vice versa ) . |
| 19 | In reality , such a debate misses the point of the parallelism : the question is not whether , taken in isolation , B is more precise than A , but whether " king of Moab " in B adds any precisions to what we already have in A. unquestionably it does ; however , we must admit that in the case of " Aram " II " the Eastern Hills " we can not say that B adds precision to A ( unless perhaps the poet knows something that we do not ) . |
| 20 | On the other hand , we can not say that people are making up their minds for themselves so long as they are largely unaware of the influences that are playing upon them , and so long as those influences are not essentially diverse and competitive , but generally combine to push their thinking , their attitudes and feelings in a single direction . |
| 21 | Now although it is true that we need to consider contextual factors to explain what it is that creates a feeling of unity in stretches of language of more than one sentence , we can not say that there are no formal links between sentences in discourse . |
| 22 | Therefore , we can not say that the environment elsewhere does not concern us . |
| 23 | For in the circumstances of ordinary politics the checkerboard strategy will prevent instances of injustice that would otherwise occur , and we can not say that justice requires not eliminating any injustice unless we can eliminate all . |
| 24 | By applying the Pareto condition , we can not say that the oil discovery improves actual economic welfare . |