Example sentences of "we [not/n't] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the purpose is to protect the individual , why do we not sign the European social charter , as every other country is prepared to do ? |
| 2 | Then , her mouth full of hairpins , she asked , ‘ Why should we not go together , now , to the Lyceum ? ’ |
| 3 | Why can we not go down the same road ? |
| 4 | Why do we not mimic the professionals or their caddies in other areas of the game ? |
| 5 | Do we not owe it to community charge payers in each of those areas to ensure that the best value is obtained for their money and that they get the most efficient service ? |
| 6 | Can , can we Mr chairman can we not suggest erm the fact that , to the three executives , that the subscription stay the same for three or six month period until unison and members are balloted on |
| 7 | And why should we not think ill of the dead , she wondered suddenly , for they can not hear , word can not be passed to them , they can not be hurt . |
| 8 | Before we make any radical changes such as doing away with jury trials , should we not think very carefully indeed ? |
| 9 | Might we not accuse Sartre of the same ? |
| 10 | If a passage can be reduced to a set of elementary propositions of the kind approximately represented in [ 9 ] , can we not regard this as the neutral , " styleless " version against which all other paraphrases , such as [ 8 ] , are stylistically marked in varying degrees ? |
| 11 | While an acquittal does not falsify police results , may we not regard a conviction as verifying them ? |
| 12 | Who should we not embrace them as a general strategy for legislation whenever the community is divided over some issue of principle ? |
| 13 | Not only do we not talk about death , but we do everything we can to hide it from view and pretend that mortality is just a myth . |
| 14 | Well can we not talk about page one first ? |
| 15 | The lower classes — if we talk about upper and middle how can we not talk about lower ? — served tea , beer , gin and stodgy food , cut as often as not into hamfisted wedges , fit to fill the belly not the hand , and , understanding that the band was working for a living , treated it with respect and decorum . |
| 16 | Can we not talk the matter over later in private ? |
| 17 | Then we 'll see can we not set you next in line for chief of Clan Gillian . ’ |
| 18 | Should we not remind the House that that legislation was supposed to stand the test of time ? |
| 19 | ‘ May we not lend you a mount , Miss Abbott ? ’ |
| 20 | Can we not reach conclusions today which I sense has some possibility of consensus ? |
| 21 | Instead of erroneously portraying the social charter as a formula for increased unemployment and as a dangerous capitulation to the trade unions , should we not realise that a policy of co-determination that gives employees a say and a stake in the running of their firms is the very reason why the economies of so many western European countries have been so successful ? |
| 22 | ‘ No freeman shall be taken , or imprisoned , or be disseised of his freehold or liberties , or free customs , or be outlawed or exiled , or any otherwise destroyed ; nor will we not pass upon him , nor condemn him , but by lawful judgment of his peers , or by the law of the land . |
| 23 | So why should we not pass the benefits of these savings back to the members ? |
| 24 | Not only can we not recognize sounds as linguistic units unless concepts are attached to them ; we also can not entertain concepts independently of their physical manifestations , without , that is , evoking in our minds the verbal forms to which they are attached . |
| 25 | Would we not evaluate a one-off course , now completed and never to be run again ? |
| 26 | Why do we not throw off this hangover of socialism and instead celebrate a free enterprise day , a British export day or , better still , a low taxation day ? |
| 27 | Robinson detects ‘ a severe confusion of categories and contexts ’ , and he asks : ‘ Might we not distinguish in kind between literary promotion , such as Pound 's for Joyce , in war or peace , and advocacy such as Pound 's for Mussolini in war rather than peace ? ’ |
| 28 | Valensi , who had shown at the Section d'Or in 1912 , in a lecture given late in the following year asked : ‘ Why should we not invent pure painting ? |
| 29 | ‘ Could we not travel safely on the road now ? ’ she asked cautiously , as they forded yet another stream . |
| 30 | May we not waste our lives in jealousy and greed , but play our part in working towards a more just and equitable future where resources can be divided equally between all the peoples of the world . |