Example sentences of "[that] we [vb mod] not [verb] it " in BNC.

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1 We realize Lord , that we ca n't do it ourself we are totally dependent upon you and yet we thank you for this .
2 We spend a decade conditioning ourselves to act in a certain way , with a certain decisiveness , caution , thoroughness , and the result is that we ca n't shake it off at half past six and revert to some more natural state .
3 So why do n't we reply to the people who put this suggestion that in reprinting it 'll be taken into account but there are some reasons that we ca n't follow it completely and that , two chief of which are different , where colour is used for coding and erm , secondly what Richard has just said .
4 Scientists disavow the Space Station as irrelevant , but Capitol Hill tends to bunch these things together as ‘ science ’ , and insists that we ca n't have it all .
5 I 'm glad you asked that erm yes we did , we did give it consideration er er we decided against it , because it would have meant er to declaring the dividend on Friday for technical reasons and announcing our results erm today and this could have been in danger of misleading er the market er because this lower results and we have an increased dividend and that was erm probably the main reason why we decided that we would n't do it er the slight increase in net dividend in fact should compensate erm and this is coincidence er er f fo for the increased A C T on the
6 I therefore went into a meeting at in December and er we were presented with a report , we did n't receive it before the meeting , it was taken at the meeting and we said that we would n't discuss it if it related to night flights and again I wrote immediately back to the department of transport and I suggested that they should erm spend the report which I refer to , monthly figures of night flights so that the night flights could be monitored .
7 Well , yeah , I spoke to them like , on the telephone , erm and basically they er and we agreed that we would n't take it any further so it er happened to be a police officer 's view as against our view , and whilst we did n't agree with the view , er we sent enough references to make our point known anyway .
8 Gravity is the weakest of the four forces by a long way ; it is so weak that we would not notice it at all were it not for two special properties that it has : it can act over large distances , and it is always attractive .
9 No ! he would shout , and make it clear that we would not discuss it … he used an expletive that I have not used , indicating that he did not want me to raise that subject with him . ’
10 We know that we could n't earn our salvation , we know that we do n't deserve , that we know that we could n't merit it .
11 It was so disgusting that we could not eat it , so we left the dining-room with empty stomachs .
12 That is true , but it does not issue in the conclusion that we do not ordinarily have and use the given conception of a causal circumstance , or that we could not use it in the confirmation of causal hypotheses .
13 ‘ Miss Malcolm , I 'm surprised that such a powerful voice , such a powerful manner , that we should not hear it out of the chorus … ’
14 When we are young , the thought of death , whether our own or someone else 's , is so appalling that we can not face it .
15 We do not understand it , they say , by which they seem to mean that we can not set it out in everyday words ( though actually one can go some way towards doing so , as I tried to do in Chapter V of The particle Play ) .
16 The time interval between one bird stopping and the other starting is so short that we can not detect it , and the duet sounds to us like a continuous solo .
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