Example sentences of "we do not say " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Clark Brundin of Warwick University said : ‘ We did not say at our meeting in Leeds — and this is where we have shot ourselves in the foot — that no government is going to meet the cost of higher education . |
| 2 | For example , in answer 4 we did not say ‘ Mr and Mrs Smith will keep their home nice and clean ’ for by whose standards would we judge them to have met the goal ? |
| 3 | ‘ We did not say you have got to come to Darlington or Newcastle of Teesside , we said look at the North and here is the help that you can get . ’ |
| 4 | Well that 's actually what we said so we did not say , and I |
| 5 | we did not say that Newark was closed , I |
| 6 | we do not say that the Government has been defeated by the General Strike , for it was not directed against the Government . |
| 7 | Pericles , in the funeral speech attributed to him by Thucydides , was clear that a withdrawal by the citizen from public life into privacy was not acceptable : " Here each individual is interested not only in his own affairs but in the affairs of the state as well … we do not say that a man who takes no interest in politics is a man who minds his own business ; we say that he has no business here at all . " |
| 8 | We ordinarily say of causal circumstances and causes that they make their effects happen , but we do not say , and will deny , that effects make either of the two causal items happen . |
| 9 | We do not say that the phrases listed above should never be used . |
| 10 | We do not say that workers who have clocked in 35 or 40 years should not retire early , but we are emphatic that their departure should create new promotional opportunities and , most importantly , should create job vacancies for young school leavers who will add a great energy and enthusiasm in the enterprise ’ . |
| 11 | She drives me in my car and we do not say much . |
| 12 | We do not say that if a house is worth eight times as much as another the tax bill should be eight times as much . |
| 13 | We do not say this lightly , nor have we absorbed right-wing media propaganda on this issue ; our view is based on study and checking the original sources of feminism , whether this be radical , revolutionary or any other variant . |