Example sentences of "we [not/n't] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We all knew of your friendship with Korchnoi , he wrote , how could we not , the papers have been so full of it . |
| 2 | We have established , have we not , that the public house is not worthy of a celebration dinner . |
| 3 | Cameron began to wonder if Mr Menzies was identifying himself with Job , and when he ended ringingly on ‘ Shall we receive good at the hand of God , and shall we not receive evil ? ’ , the suspicion was confirmed . |
| 4 | Why should we not live there ? ’ |
| 5 | This sense of self is quite robust : when we wake up , we not only remember what we know , but also who we are . |
| 6 | Why can we not be told ? |
| 7 | How can we not fear them , and fearing them , how not hate them ? |
| 8 | 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 ? ’ |
| 9 | True independence and self-determination come from recognising that we not only have responsibility for ourselves , but also obligations to others . |
| 10 | Could we not have all guessed that Lt Col Custer ( he gave himself the rank of general ) came 34th out of the class of 34 at West Point . |
| 11 | In normal or right sexuality , argues Scruton , we not only give recognition to the other 's person in and through our desire tor him or her , we also accord them accountability and care in the process . |
| 12 | Why were we not left rounded off , and finished in ourselves , |
| 13 | Hooker , in a now famous passage , asked : ‘ see we not plainly that obedience of creatures unto the law of nature is the stay of the whole world ? ’ |
| 14 | Why did we not just stop and camp ? |
| 15 | Could we not argue that the plant or animal responds to the rhythms in its environment anyway ? |
| 16 | ( That , after all , is what is meant by the external cause of a daily rhythm. ) for example , could we not argue that the plant could move its leaves in response to the sun ; the shore-dwelling creature leave its burrow in the mud when the tide recedes ; or the diurnal or nocturnal animal respond to sunrise and sunset ? |
| 17 | Klaus , is n't it ? and Klara — Oh , of course — ’ corrected — ‘ Erika , Fritz , Rosa … we really ought to see you more often , ought we not ? |
| 18 | Could we not find out some means ? |
| 19 | Are we not sometimes benevolent towards our fellows ? |
| 20 | Not only are we not helped by scholastic logic to acquire knowledge of the forms , natures , or essences of things , and to see how other properties flow from them , but also it is extremely doubtful whether such knowledge is possible anyway . |
| 21 | The public at home would have been rightly outraged had we not taken this action , while the lessons that would have been drawn by other countries overseas were incalculable . |
| 22 | Surely , I thought , if we can do this with pensions can we not do the same with social security ? |
| 23 | Are we not being reminded in a very distinctive yet emphatic way that this ought to be the nature of the Church ? |
| 24 | I suppose we will have to take appropriate action will we not … . |
| 25 | Are we not presented in the stories of Christ 's passion and crucifixion with a picture of God at men 's ( and it is men 's , not women 's ) mercy ? |
| 26 | And since the blindness and brutality recorded in those accounts has in no wise disappeared from human society , have we not a crucified God still ? |
| 27 | 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 ? |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Hence , we not only need to eat and drink , but we also enjoy it ; and friendships not only give us the security of being in a group , but also pleasure . |
| 30 | From our point of view , empathy is the most valuable form of communication with the horse , for we not only have insight into how the horse feels , but we intuitively understand the horse 's other forms of communication , like verbal messages and body language . |