Example sentences of "[vb mod] we [not/n't] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Must we not understand by socialization of the means of production that the means of living and working belong to everyone ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ And what must we not say to Feargal ? ’ he asked from the doorway . |
| 3 | So why should we not pass the benefits of these savings back to the members ? |
| 4 | Then , her mouth full of hairpins , she asked , ‘ Why should we not go together , now , to the Lyceum ? ’ |
| 5 | Who should we not embrace them as a general strategy for legislation whenever the community is divided over some issue of principle ? |
| 6 | We scoff at the pretentious person who buys the Tatler to exhibit it on the coffee table , so why should we not view with less than admiration the newspaper which bribes its readers to buy it for reasons other than its content ? |
| 7 | Valensi , who had shown at the Section d'Or in 1912 , in a lecture given late in the following year asked : ‘ Why should we not invent pure painting ? |
| 8 | If the use of human subjects could promote dramatic advances in research into hazardous surgery , such as liver transplantation , or the search for drugs to reverse Alzheimer 's disease , angina , or AIDS , but with possibly lethal side effects , why should we not offer long-term criminals the choice of undergoing such tests in exchange for a commutation of their sentence if they survive ? |
| 9 | And why should we not think ill of the dead , she wondered suddenly , for they can not hear , word can not be passed to them , they can not be hurt . |
| 10 | Before we make any radical changes such as doing away with jury trials , should we not think very carefully indeed ? |
| 11 | Should we not remind the House that that legislation was supposed to stand the test of time ? |
| 12 | Instead of erroneously portraying the social charter as a formula for increased unemployment and as a dangerous capitulation to the trade unions , should we not realise that a policy of co-determination that gives employees a say and a stake in the running of their firms is the very reason why the economies of so many western European countries have been so successful ? |
| 13 | Therefore , should we not use our strength and influence to try to organise throughout the west a Marshall plan , similar to the one after the second world war , to strengthen the hands of those who are doing their utmost to stave off anything approximating to anarchy ? |
| 14 | ‘ Should we not submit the decision to some neutral assessor and abide by his judgement ? ’ |
| 15 | Why should we not derive from them an understanding which includes a knowledge of both the individual causes of particular social phenomena and the holistic forces underlying them ? |
| 16 | Should we not include people who regularly travel through the area by car , who must have an opinion about the difference it has made to their journey ? |
| 17 | Should we not consider controlling numbers ? |
| 18 | Given the tremendous wealth in the far eastern regions of the former USSR , should we not consider them part of Europe if we are to try to expand the European Community for the benefit of all mankind ? |
| 19 | If in the end we wish to locate God in the destruction of Jericho , should we not search for him lying in the dust with the rest of his people of that city , like them hacked to pieces ? |
| 20 | If military methods were as aimless as they may appear , should we not concentrate on those moments , perhaps the decisive moments , of violent action when the armies of the two sides clashed in battles which have become part of national myth ? |
| 21 | Since the musician works with notes , why should we not accept that colour by its intrinsic force is capable of expressing a painter 's thought ? ’ |
| 22 | Should we not accept an original |
| 23 | Should we not ask ourselves whether the adulteress had a bad family upbringing , lacking in love , that she reacts in this way ? |
| 24 | Should we not ask whether it is right for people with high salaries to give up some of their income to give to pensioners the means to live with dignity ? |
| 25 | Given that the decision of the Department of the Environment and of the Scottish and Welsh Offices will have huge implications for the levels of poll tax that people will be expected to pay next year , should we not have an early statement in the Chamber on those issues ? |
| 26 | Why should we not live there ? ’ |
| 27 | We all pay the same towards the NHS ; should we not get equal benefits ? |
| 28 | Might we not accuse Sartre of the same ? |
| 29 | Robinson detects ‘ a severe confusion of categories and contexts ’ , and he asks : ‘ Might we not distinguish in kind between literary promotion , such as Pound 's for Joyce , in war or peace , and advocacy such as Pound 's for Mussolini in war rather than peace ? ’ |
| 30 | Might we not learn something from a closer look at our rivals ' activities ? |