Example sentences of "but we do not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Asked if the Russians had provided the Afghans with the latest MiG-29s , he said : ‘ Anything we desire will be given to us but we do not want to escalate the war . ’ |
| 2 | But we do not want planning in this sense . |
| 3 | ‘ There is tight security at our homes but we do not want to have to put bars over the windows . ’ |
| 4 | But we do not want any of it . ’ |
| 5 | But we do not realise this till Gandalf remarks on their near-meeting some thirty pages later . |
| 6 | It is precisely the same quality that makes them resist brutality in prisons but we do not applaud that . |
| 7 | ‘ But we do not handle them ourselves . |
| 8 | We have come to expect the premeditated dishonesty of Conservative Central Office to be reprinted in the Daily Mail , but we do not intend to allow it to go unchallenged in the columns of Hansard . |
| 9 | Provision has been made to include a general , but we do not specify that the general should be a particular Orc or Goblin warlord , the chieftain of a powerful tribe , or any given individual . |
| 10 | Provision has been made to include a general , but we do not specify whether this is the Emperor , an Elector Count , the Reiksmarshall of the Reiksguard , or whoever — any of these individuals can and have taken command of Imperial armies during the history of the Empire . |
| 11 | But we do not think the chancellor should raise taxes much next year because the recovery is too weak to accept that . |
| 12 | Believe it or not , but we do not tread all over each other to get where we want to go — or at least the majority of us do n't ! ’ |
| 13 | Crystals grow , but we do not feel that salt is alive . |
| 14 | We know vaguely what she means , but we do not feel it for ourselves . |
| 15 | Yeah , Mao said we support the peasants ' demand for equal distribution of land in order to help the masses of peasants speedily to abolish the system of land ownership , but we do not advocate absolute egalitarianism , whoever advocates absolute egalitarianism is wrong , such thinking is reactionary , backward and retrogressive in nature |
| 16 | But we do not need these sophisticated techniques to improve group effectiveness . |
| 17 | But we do not need any knowledge of the gene or its product to do this . |
| 18 | But we do not need to rely on actual mistakes in the past . |
| 19 | When we write to a bank manager asking for an overdraft , we will probably take all three into account if we wish to succeed ; but we do not need to know any other personal details . |
| 20 | But we do not need to solve this conundrum , for the picture painted is unreal . |
| 21 | There were 30,000 tuberculosis beds in this country before the war , but we do not need TB beds now ; we need day surgery and intensive care facilities , such as those that I opened yesterday when I visited a hospital in the constituency of the hon. Member for Peckham ( Ms. Harman ) . |
| 22 | My hon. Friend talked about the future , but we do not need to look into the crystal ball when we can read the book . |
| 23 | The answer on the calculator is four point seven O five double eight two three hours but we do not need that as that |
| 24 | We ordinarily say of causal circumstances and causes that they make their effects happen , but we do not say , and will deny , that effects make either of the two causal items happen . |
| 25 | We decided to put that none of our careers officers spend any time teaching careers lessons , that we deliver guidance through classroom situations and things like this , but we do not teach careers . |
| 26 | A spokesman for Cheshire Building Society said : ‘ We try to apply policies as best as we can but we do not have the right to vary conditions . |
| 27 | But we do not have to refer to the para-normal , our understanding of art and poetry and our experiences in mysticism are developments of new senses . |
| 28 | But we do not have , today , the same quality of expertise available all the time , especially for the night shift and holidays or when the expert is off sick . |
| 29 | But we do not have to go back to prehistoric times to witness the change in our diet . |
| 30 | But we do not have to follow him further , to the view that authentic Producers ' Co-operation is to be found in factories owned and ultimately controlled not by the men and women working in them , but by the members of the Consumers ' Co-operatives whose capital built and equipped the factories , and employed labour to work in them . |