Example sentences of "we should not [verb] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 I think perhaps we should not speculate beforehand .
2 I see no reason why we should not accelerate again up to the average of the G7 countries .
3 We should not rely simply on price mechanism alone , but reduce output and link it to markets to balance supply and demand .
4 But we should not rely too heavily on that distinction .
5 There is good reason why we should not speak ill of the dead but no good reason why we should not think it , if it seems to be necessary .
6 In the first place , we should not paint too pessimistic a view of what was happening to the landed classes , since the experiences of this group varied considerably from region to region .
7 It 's our Party and we should not give up without a fight .
8 But if Sartre anticipates such later thinkers we should not assume too quickly that they have simply taken his insights further .
9 I would suggest that we can deal with these parties if they arise but that we should not hold up the negotiations with the top four .
10 Intuitively , we should not expect widely differing results from these two measures in the assessment of portfolios .
11 It is certainly right to hold the inquiry but we should not expect too much from it .
12 Just as we should not expect too much from those West German areas that have simply erected speed restriction signs without reinforcing the message with physical infrastructure , so design changes alone , though better than legal changes alone , are still inadequate .
13 Hart exhorts us that ‘ we should not cherish even as an ideal a rule so detailed that no new choices arise at the point of application ’ .6 Unger remarks that ‘ language is no longer credited with the fixidity of categories and the transparent representation of the world that would make formalism plausible in legal reasoning or in ideas about justice ’ .
14 It is important that constituents should be able to consult us about confidential matters , but surely we should not go so far as to give comfort to murderers and bombers , as has been suggested .
15 We should not go so far as to hold a referendum , but the people must have the final say .
16 We should not go too far and argue that the alleged conflict between the monied and landed interests was nothing more than a propagandist 's fiction .
17 Does the Prime Minister agree that although there is scope for compromise on many matters at Maastricht , the one issue on which it is impossible to compromise is the difference between those who believe that Britain could and should join in a single currency and those who believe that we should not do so at any price and that we should never even have joined the exchange rate mechanism ?
18 It is tempting to put this all down to a simple lexical ambiguity , but we should not do so before remarking that while question ( 44 ) can correspond to either version , ( 45 ) can only match the " unacquainted " version .
19 There is also the oft repeated argument that we should not sit down together at the table until after unity is accomplished .
20 Let us be clear that we should not think merely of the Europe of the Twelve .
21 That is one of the principal arguments of those on the Government Benches who say that we should not sign up , that we can not say at this stage whether we are capable , as an economy , of participating without damage in a single currency .
22 The concept of mind is such that we should not wonder how material objects can be present to it .
23 We should allow them to get on with their business and we should not interfere so regularly in what they do .
24 Different authors may define corporatism differently , but we should not worry too much about this since corporatism is a highly complex phenomenon and different dimensions , or aspects , of it are covered by these diverse conceptualisations .
25 I would simply suggest that we should not allow either sentimentality or a genuine concern for retaining decentralized powers in general to distract us from the major , and separate , task of attempting to determine a common policy for all education at all stages in the future .
26 In anthropomorphic terms , we should not ask why complex organisms have found it beneficial to be diploid , but why genes living in pairs should have found it beneficial to construct complex bodies to protect and replicate them .
27 If miracles were always taking place , there would be no order in the universe , and without the regularity of nature we should not know where we were .
28 For we should not become too carried away by Labour 's changed face and tone of voice , nor too dazzled by the Peter Mandelson image-conjuring .
29 The Secretary of State seems to think that we should be so grateful that the Government have promised that the poll tax will go that we should not look too closely at what will replace it .
30 The Secretary of State for Employment sought to protest when my hon. Friend the Member for Sedgefield suggested to him that we were near the bottom of the league tables , saying that we should not take too much account of them .
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