Example sentences of "that we [modal v] [not/n't] [verb] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | erm Many of the problems of what are usually called ‘ advanced capitalist industrial economies ’ are similar , erm and I think it is increasingly the case that we find that we ca n't tackle them on our own , we need to consult , we need to learn from each other . |
| 2 | It is fortunate that we ca n't hear them , incidentally , for they are immensely powerful and would be deafeningly loud if we could hear them , and impossible to sleep through . |
| 3 | They imitate us so badly that we ca n't respect them . |
| 4 | They know me and Paul and Steve 'cos we 've been around here in this bit of the London Road for three seasons now and they know that we would n't let them down . ’ |
| 5 | Fully rational reasoning , then , would provide an objective , consensual determination of legal rules ( though not , of course , any guarantee that we would not break them ! ) . |
| 6 | Erm you did what I did actually Bill , you actually called them referrals and I think I , I feel that we should n't call them referrals we should call them introductions , I think it , it 's probably less confrontational |
| 7 | But it is important that we should not forget them . |
| 8 | The majority of people accept this because the state , by excluding these killings from the murder category , has signified its intention that we should not treat them as capital offenders . |
| 9 | Another reason that we should be against the Labour party is that we should not put them in a position to buck the trend . |
| 10 | There is only one road over the mountains and down to the desert , so it was stupid to assume — as I had done , without really thinking about it — that we should not see them again . |
| 11 | I think that we should not call them M********r Utd ( sorry for swearing ) but either Scum , or Stretford Utd . |
| 12 | As Locke says , ‘ in some of our ideas there are certain relations , habitudes and connections , so visibly included in the nature of the ideas themselves , that we can not conceive them separable from them , by any power whatsoever ’ . |
| 13 | Their world views are so different that we can not treat them as participants in the same world . |
| 14 | The American expression for this position is to say that the resources of a local authority are not ‘ fungible ’ , meaning that we can not treat them as one mass . |
| 15 | ( In practice , however , the calculations required for systems containing more than a few electrons are so complicated that we can not do them . ) |
| 16 | We can distinguish sceptical arguments which , although they attempt to deprive us of knowledge ( or even of justified belief ) still allow that we understand the propositions whose truth we are no longer allowed to know , from those which claim that the reason why we do n't know their truth is that we can not understand them . |
| 17 | Lieutenant John Tenwolde , who is leading the investigation in the US , said : ‘ The allegations surrounding the Spiros are so serious that we can not discount them . |