Example sentences of "what we [verb] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | The erm what we 've not erm what has not been er challenged is the argument that it is a good thing for North Yorkshire and for the region and for the United Kingdom and possibly for the European Union , that footloose inward investment , sorry footloose investment , of erm strategic importance should erm be capable of being attracted to this county . |
| 2 | As for his colleagues , Mr Smith said : ‘ We 're all agreed that we can not spend what we have not earned and we intend to earn it before we spend it . |
| 3 | It quotes John MacGregor , Secretary of State for Education , in support , and John Smith , the Shadow Chancellor , as saying : ‘ We can not spend what we have not earned and we intend to earn it before we spend it . ’ |
| 4 | What we have not yet considered is where the body clock is and how it is adjusted by external time-cues . |
| 5 | What we have not previously considered is that a cultural trait may have evolved in the way that it has , simply because it is advantageous to itself . |
| 6 | What we have not changed is what has made the book so popular with your students , in particular the themes which combine so well the requirements of the exam with the interests of students at this age . |
| 7 | What we have not done is to describe ‘ what really goes on ’ . |
| 8 | What we do not know passionately , offers us no resistance , we pass through it as through air . |
| 9 | What we do not need is another socialist experiment starting next Thursday . |
| 10 | What we do not want is lessons laid down by law . |
| 11 | What we do not tend to agree about , and what I should reassure you about , is that food is also safer than it was . |
| 12 | Of course , it is true that outside the small clearing of what we know lies the unexplored forest of what we do not know . |
| 13 | The deeper reason for our doubt — and faith — is that even what we know rests only on the foundations of what we do not know . |
| 14 | There is a grey area for all of us , a philosophical no-man's-land between what we know and what we do not know . |
| 15 | There are many things that we are certain of and , although it might be useful to try to doubt these certainties , we should not pretend to doubt what we do not doubt in our hearts . |
| 16 | No the only thing to regret is what we do not do , which is what happen ! |
| 17 | What we do not yet know is how women 's changing opportunities for paid work have affected their relative risk of poverty . |
| 18 | What we do not see , except in isolated cases such as that found in Leeds LEA , is an attempt to bring the enabling qualities of these environments into the education system . |
| 19 | In modern times we have effectively eliminated possibility 3 by incorporating it within our scheme : Quantum mechanics is essentially a theory of what we do not know and can not predict . |
| 20 | What we do not know is who came to power in Northumbria during Ceolwulf 's temporary deposition nor whether there was any connection between the controversies surrounding Wilfrid and those now involving Acca . |
| 21 | A question is a way of defining what we do not know . |
| 22 | One could avoid this difficulty of having to describe what we do not and can not know only if the histories satisfy the no boundary condition : they are finite in extent but have no boundaries , edges , or singularities . |
| 23 | What we do not know is how it squares those beliefs with its later beliefs in market forces , the EC and industrial efficiency . |
| 24 | of what we do not mean , up against the skin , |
| 25 | What we do not know is how far these were typical , but it is worth remembering that the letters of both the Pastons and the Stonors are largely concerned with family concerns rather than national politics . |
| 26 | One key feature of her method was to differentiate between ( 1 ) what we know ; ( 2 ) what we can guess or infer ; ( 3 ) what we do not know ; ( 4 ) what we would like to know in order to carry the enquiry further . |
| 27 | So information sources can stand in for what we do not automatically know . |
| 28 | The difficulty of expressing what we think adequately in matters concerned with assumptions and beliefs means that it is often easier to say what we do not agree with than what we do . |
| 29 | What we did not know , he said , was the effect of strenuous exercise combined with the wrong kind of stress . |
| 30 | What we did not see were any examples of pupil-centred enquiry methods being employed by teachers and using materials specifically purchased for this purpose with project funds , as predicted in the proposal documents . |