Example sentences of "do we not " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , why do we not nowadays extensively see remedies causing ‘ more harm the larger the dose ’ ? after all the average dose from a tablet used today is approximately 50 times the dose of Hahnemann 's small granule . |
| 2 | Not only do we not enjoy what we eat ; in many instances we do not even notice what it tastes like . |
| 3 | Why then do we not take the same laid-back attitude if someone says ‘ I am in pain … ’ ? |
| 4 | Instead of agonising over an indefinable concept of pain , why do we not simply study the individual 's efforts to stabilise its internal environment and then aid it or , at least , not intrude on those efforts without good reason ? |
| 5 | Do we not all accept ‘ progress ’ , ‘ democracy ’ and ‘ liberty ’ ? |
| 6 | Do we not only die , but go to hell for what we have suffered ? ’ |
| 7 | Why do we not insist that presuppositions be proved too ? |
| 8 | Why do we not query everything , even the act of querying itself ? |
| 9 | So why do we not see more Killies in dealers ' tanks ? |
| 10 | We do assume , do we not , that the Saudi government will still be there next April ? ’ |
| 11 | Today we are supposedly living in the first great secular age of history ( though do we not still worship our own pagan idols — of money and success ? ) . |
| 12 | Not only do we not get from the Enlightenment an understanding of human nature that is under the curse of the fall , neither do we get a true understanding of men and women made in the image of God . |
| 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 | But how do we not give up ? |
| 15 | Not only do we not usually think of Snell 's law when we try to net a fish or tickle a trout , but we could not use it to help us do so even if we did . |
| 16 | Do we not , in supplying technology to the USSR , make it easier for her to free resources for military purposes ? |
| 17 | Is not social work the application of skills picked up in the ‘ University of Life ’ and do we not all know what deprived infants and troublesome adolescents need ? |
| 18 | Do we not all face the same loss , namely death ? |
| 19 | And do we not all have the same right to be saved ? |
| 20 | But here also we can not predict how the couplet will proceed ; not only do we not yet know the grammatical or syntactic pattern of the next line , or its lexical contents , but , more importantly , we do not know what kind of a relationship what we have read will bear to what we have yet to read . |
| 21 | Why do we not add them to the list of axioms given above ? |
| 22 | Why do we not take yesterday as the causal circumstance for last night ? |
| 23 | We may make an easy start with the short circuit and a bit more , but do we not then have to include in the circumstance the absence of a burst in a water pipe at the right moment ? |
| 24 | Do we not have to specify the particular condition which was the absence of a torrential rainstorm and an open window ? |
| 25 | Do we not have to include there having been no general power failure in South-east England , and the absence of an earth tremor that would have shifted whatever it was that first ignited , and the earth 's not being destroyed by a nuclear explosion ? |
| 26 | Do we not immediately , and quite naturally , set about constructing some circumstances ( i.e. a ‘ context ’ ) in which the sentence could be acceptably used ? |
| 27 | Therefore , before any policy conclusions are drawn from the figures recently published , do we not need to be sure ( i ) that we can predict with some success which defendants are likely ( at more than 50 per cent . |
| 28 | And we also have Monsieur Tran Van Lung here to thank , do we not , for reminding us of the great and unshakable dignity of the Orient . " |
| 29 | ‘ We are all men of the world ’ — he excluded the Archdeacon from eye contact and addressed himself exclusively to the Dean — ‘ so of course we know , do we not , that problems of that sort for young clergy bring with them all kinds of undesirable connections . |
| 30 | ‘ Do we not have a lovely daughter ? ’ |