Example sentences of "we [vb mod] not [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We may not sleep through winter , but we huddle , and stiffen , and hoard the warmth of fires and hot food , until spring unbunches our shoulder muscles , and thaws our movements into fluency . |
| 2 | Like all his brothers , Charles was destined to outlive his wife ; and in a sense we may not wonder at that fact . |
| 3 | While we may not believe in everlasting life , while we have it , we do believe that our life is everlasting . |
| 4 | The rule is firmly established that we may not look at Hansard and in general I agree with it , for reasons which I gave last year in Beswick v. Beswick . |
| 5 | We may not ask for help by weeping , but our bodies may become helpless so that we have to be helped . |
| 6 | For that reason , conservatives who reject the idea of change , who cling to past ideas and ideologies , while we may not agree with them , are entitled to be understood and their reluctance to face the pain of change respected . |
| 7 | We may not agree with the intention of the words as viewed from the poem as a whole , but the words themselves must surely be admired . |
| 8 | Finally , it seems most plausible to suppose that this enforcement operated within very strict limits , so that we should not speak of a general power of enforcement of modus for public purposes . |
| 9 | Janet Hill ( 1973 , p.69 ) says that ‘ Reading is essentially a private , personal activity , and in our anxiety to make sure children are finding what they want , we should not intrude on their privacy ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ We should not talk of things like that . |
| 11 | I mean players we flogged during the height of their career , whom by rights we should not care about anymore , but who tugs at those little heartstrings still … |
| 12 | ‘ We should not joke about the unseen world , ’ said Leonard . |
| 13 | Eden also argued that we should not distinguish between the Soviet government and any other allied government , but his overriding conclusion was that : " It is most important that our own prisoners in Germany and Poland be well cared for and returned as soon as possible . |
| 14 | We should not aim at levels of US poverty as goals for our society . |
| 15 | When you come to internal democracy and how much , say , the pupils have , I agree with Bob that is a very tricky one and certainly you ca n't just transplant erm democracy onto what is really a rather authoritarian system , you 'd have to prepare and train pupils much more than we do and what I think is the most dangerous thing is playing at democracy which I am sure we should not do in schools . |
| 16 | McDowell objects that we should not think of what is really there in the world as something whose thereness has nothing to do with our responses to it . |
| 17 | But we should not conclude from this that they are therefore intrinsically objectionable and unworkable . |
| 18 | ‘ We are aware of the local feeling and have come to the view that we should not fight for the additional land requirement , ’ Mr Walker said . |
| 19 | The inductivist insists that we should not jump to conclusions . |
| 20 | We should not seek for precision where precision is an unnecessary and costly luxury . |
| 21 | We should not gamble with the quality of our air . |
| 22 | Especially when the applicant recently suggested , and I quote , we should not indulge in further procrastination in reaching an early decision on this application . |
| 23 | ‘ We should not wait for long , no . |
| 24 | In the last sentence erm my view is that we should not wait for an application to build on this site . |
| 25 | We should not have to anguish over what needs to be done to stop the physical and mental havoc which such racists wreak on black people . |
| 26 | Clearly , there are many breeds which we should not have as pets . |
| 27 | He told us that it was all right to study the evolution of the universe after the big bang , but we should not inquire into the big bang itself because that was the moment of Creation and therefore the work of God . |
| 28 | While rejecting the detailed application of management approaches from an industrial or commercial environment into schools , we should not fall into the belief that there is nothing to be learned from such experience — for in the right conditions there is . |
| 29 | Ma Pwa Sein , the stalwart headmistress of St Mary 's , Kemmendine , which had transferred to the Delta at the outbreak of war , was very emphatic that we should not fall into the hands of the Japanese . |
| 30 | This is not surprising ; and we should not fall into the obvious trap of righteous indignation after the event nor judge them too harshly . |