Example sentences of "[subord] we do not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those messages like ‘ Little boys do n't cry ’ , ‘ Keep a stiff upper lip ’ and ‘ Maintain a brave face ’ make it very difficult to describe experiences where we did not feel in control and did not appear invulnerable . |
| 2 | It may reflect the thought that although we do not aim at the ‘ truth ’ — i.e. our immediate aims are for simple solutions to empirical problems — nevertheless , the truth is what we end up with . |
| 3 | May we therefore put the Government 's tax policy into context : although we do not wish to raise VAT above its present level , what we have done reflects further taxation on those who can afford to spend more ? |
| 4 | It would be more accurate to say that although we do not have a right to such things we do have freedom to do them . |
| 5 | Although we do not have a satisfactory explanation for the U/Pb fractionation , it must have occurred at shallow depths in the mantle , near a spreading ridge ; and the resulting enriched source regions have since remained fixed relative to the migrating lithosphere . |
| 6 | Although we do not have a written constitution there are many Acts of Parliament relevant to constitutional laws . |
| 7 | Although we do not have such specific documentation for Louis I , married to Marie Mauger , and his sons Jacques ( -Jean ) , Louis and Jean they too would have manufactured under a single family mark . |
| 8 | For example , although we do not have in English the grammaticalization of the levels of respect that exist in Javanese , we do have means of expressing degrees of respect , largely by choices in the use of expressions : thus ( 31 ) would generally be a more polite request than ( 30 ) : ( 30 ) I want to see you for a moment ( 31 ) I wondered if I could possibly see you for a moment So by taking at first just the grammaticalized or encoded features of context in the world 's languages , we would have both something like a " discovery procedure " for relevant functions of language , and a constraint on the relatively vacuous theorizing that often attends speculation about the " functions of speech " . |
| 9 | Although we do not need to reconsider all the issues relating to the corporatisation of local government during the 1970s , it is important to remind ourselves of the widespread adoption of policy and resources committees , consisting of the senior elected members ( with sub-committees specialising in land , finance , personnel and performance review ) . |
| 10 | Thus although we do not know how the DNA controls development , we are reasonably sure that it does carry almost all the information which has been produced by selection , and which is needed to control development . |
| 11 | Miracle in the figurative sense , since although we do not know how cells evolved , quite plausible scenarios have been proposed . |
| 12 | The observed maximal effect was reached in the fourth hour although we do not know whether secretion would still have been higher in the fifth or sixth hour . |
| 13 | ‘ Although we do not consider Mr Gray 's conduct to have been either dishonest or intentionally misleading , nonetheless the discharge of his responsibilities as company secretary was , in these respects , most unsatisfactory . ’ |
| 14 | The property of a circumstance that ( 5 ) it necessitates its effect , although we did not pause to consider the matter , is in a way essential to a final element in a definition of a causal circumstance , more particularly a specification of what is included in such a circumstance . |
| 15 | ‘ Although we did not measure this in our study , I can say from other work the average German sees his doctor 13 times a year , the average Swiss sees his doctor 7.5 times a year and the average Briton 3.5 times . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ We wanted to make the Cabaret Voltaire a focal point of the ‘ newest art ’ , although we did not neglect , from time to time , to tell the fat and utterly uncomprehending Zurich philistines that we regarded them as pigs and the German Kaiser as the initiator of the war … |
| 17 | Although we did not study any patients with severe symptoms , our findings seem to be clinically relevant . |
| 18 | Although we did not appear to have a direct hit in any vital part ( and the engines were spared ) as soon as we dropped our bombs , and the photo-flash meant we had a picture of where we had left our load , we turned for home . |
| 19 | ‘ He claimed to be a expert on child abuse and once even offered his services to the Metropolitan Police — although we did not use him . |
| 20 | In fact the Germans were firing into the air , although we did not realize it at the time , so there were no casualties . |
| 21 | More than usually generous credit terms may have to be offered , and although we did not allow for introductory discounts in our example , these may have to be offered to induce custom , with the degree of generosity perhaps varying by assessment of likelihood of payment and repeat orders . |
| 22 | On this occasion , in fact , a reply of sorts did occur to me as I stood up there on the ladder ; a reply to the effect that those of our profession , although we did not see a great deal of the country in the sense of touring the countryside and visiting picturesque sites , did actually see more of England than most , placed as we were in houses where the greatest ladies and gentlemen of the land gathered . |
| 23 | Although we did not attend it , we had visited St Stephen 's , Gloucester Road , together , no doubt out of forgivable curiosity , though Eliot might not have thought excusable any curiosity he had been the means of exciting in that sphere . |
| 24 | Although we did not foresee any difficulties , we were astonished to hear that the Secretary of the Cabinet , Sir Robert Armstrong , had asked for the programme on the Suez operation of 1956 , in which Mountbatten had been First Sea Lord , to be deferred ‘ possibly for some months ’ . |
| 25 | Although we did not know it at the time , the next census figures were to show an over-all drop of more than 11% . |
| 26 | ‘ On 16 April we left Greenock on the old aircraft carrier ‘ Argus ’ with twenty-four Hurricanes , twenty-five pilots and an appropriate number of fitters and riggers for Gibraltar ( although we did not know our precise destination at the time , of course . |
| 27 | We tried to keep those as well , in memory of them , although we did not know which part of the year they had their twelve days . ’ |
| 28 | Although we did not know it , we were the first white men he allowed into his home other than on business . |
| 29 | None of these sections was apparently bottomed if the drawings are to be believed , so we do not know what underlay the burnt layer . |
| 30 | This has not yet been discovered and we do not know what the machines are for — rather as nineteenth-century people did not know about plutonium and nuclear reactors — so we do not know what such developments will lead to in terms of aesthetic and economic considerations , and eventually the effects on the landscape and the settlements in it . |