Example sentences of "we [vb mod] [not/n't] be [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We should not be trying to create an image that school is little more than some form of elaborate and expensive ‘ Trivial pursuit ’ ( Sullivan 1988 ) . |
| 2 | I say this because I am anxious that having decided to reject the modernist notion that there is no Devil — and therefore no Christian dualism — we should not be tempted to fall into the opposite error of conceiving our adversary as no more than a fiend . |
| 3 | In Section 2 he rejects the suggestion , conveyed by the exclamation , ‘ Surely a similarity must strike us , or we should n't be moved to use the same word ’ , that some act must precede the act of using the word ; and in Sections 5 and 10 he talks about the ‘ mistake ’ labelled by the word ‘ to make ’ as it occurs in the question , ‘ What made you call this ‘ red ’ ? ’ ) |
| 4 | We should n't be allowed to present animals in this way . |
| 5 | And it 's rather a good thing this one did look like a tramp , ’ she added , ‘ because you might not have talked to him if you had n't mistaken him for a poor old man , and he would n't have learned anything about Brownies , and we should n't be going to continue to enjoy the use of his lovely Park . |
| 6 | Everything was argued round the premise that existing union members should not have to pay the price of an EOP , and we should n't be expected to do management 's job for them . |
| 7 | However , having won our laurels we must not be tempted to rest on them . |
| 8 | apart from anything else we might not be allowed to do anything like cooking or having sort of things to sell like that in the hall |
| 9 | we booked The Crunchy Frog which was a hippy commune/warehouse/community centre by the Thames in Rotherhithe down in South East London , but we could n't be bothered to go . |
| 10 | We could not be bothered arguing with him . ’ |
| 11 | we , we , we , we , we 've , we 've , we 've got one decision I think which we are making , which is that we should n't at the moment , make any recruitment until we 've got confirmation that we can guarantee employment next year , se , secondly I think we 're saying that the first appointment that we do want to make is of a complaint examiner , and that if further investigators leave us , then we would n't be seeking to replace them as investigators , we 'd be seeking to replace with the complaint examiner , that , that , that , |
| 12 | which had been occupied by soldiers , this was our first hut , well by then I was working for the Corporation and of course by virtue of my job with the chief architect I got this house and we were offered this house about two years later for two thousand pounds and we said oh we would n't be staying here for more than ten years in any case and we would n't be bothered to buy it , but then my husband started in business you see soon after he came back and we eventually got the shop and , of course it 's very convenient because we 're only a stone 's throw from the shop you see , so we stayed here |
| 13 | As the hon. Gentleman and I know , it is usual to ask questions of visiting heads of state , but I suspect that we would not be allowed to ask the Queen any questions . |
| 14 | It had to be done very quickly because once the tanks arrived we would not be allowed to go any further until they had passed through the city . |
| 15 | Like other companies we would not be allowed to buy or lease in our own right and so we would have to take on non-producing quota holders to encourage farmers who regularly lease quota themselves to join our supply pool , ’ said Mr Ross , whose aim is to secure some 15 per cent of Scottish milk production . |
| 16 | But something would still have been gained , for we would not be claiming to know on the basis of experience the nature of a world which is independent of experience . |
| 17 | If my neighbours ran up a bill and refused to pay we would not be expected to pay it . |
| 18 | There is nothing more annoying than a computer system that works beautifully , say , in a library , and then one goes in at nine thirty in the morning and you ca n't get books out because the power has gone off , and if we are sure to go on having a society with industrial disputes , we want a system that is not capable of being completely ruined by one small section of workers deciding not to work on a particular day , and so I think while we 're putting them in , while we want to put them in in a way which that is compatible , we also need to think of having a kind of fail-safe system , particularly in the sort of more serious applications such as medicine and transport and so on , whereby we ca n't be held to ransom by very a small group of people , or indeed by just some technical fault , such as a power failure or something of this kind . |
| 19 | ‘ We ca n't be expected to wait six weeks for another good performance . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Well , we ca n't be expected to look after it . |
| 21 | ‘ They are the things we ca n't be bothered doing anything about , but we should . ’ |
| 22 | We will not be allowed to forget it . |
| 23 | However , he said : ‘ We will not be held to ransom . ’ |
| 24 | We wo n't be trying to hide anything . |
| 25 | Looks like we wo n't be trying to buy a centre-half for a while . |
| 26 | Erm if that site does n't come forward , we wo n't be looking to transfer that allocation to the rest of the district . |
| 27 | We wo n't be getting married until we 've saved enough for our deposit . |
| 28 | We wait with interest to learn something of the results , and hope that in the future we wo n't be having to leave Beaulieu gas platform to starboard during Land Rover Cowes Week . |
| 29 | We 'll also have to ring grandma and tell her that we wo n't be coming to her house today cos we wo n't be going swimming . |
| 30 | ‘ This is a good test of our character and we wo n't be found wanting . ’ |