Example sentences of "we [vb mod] [not/n't] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Britain , though we may not think it , has one of the smallest rubbish-per-head rates for industrialized countries in the world . |
| 2 | We may not present quite as many , but we plan to continue to be lively . |
| 3 | The progression associated with ionization of a strongly bonding level may show a maximum ( the vertical ionization energy ) well down the band , and we may not detect the ( 0 → 0 ) level ( the adiabatic ionization energy ) . |
| 4 | We may not go on to assume that informed opinion then had already recognised the nature of the prospective problem , nor to attribute to the reforming Whigs a reactionary motive which depends on that assumption . |
| 5 | He said too : ‘ I shall see if we may not go back to Nice in the autumn , or Austria or Switzerland . |
| 6 | ‘ We may not choose to come , ’ he blustered . |
| 7 | On the one hand , it is clear that we depend for survival upon our bodies , whereas we may not want to say that God depends upon the world for survival . |
| 8 | Furthermore , the above is transcribed into fine-class phonemes and , as we saw in the previous section , we can not expect the front end to be so accurate , and indeed we may not want it to try . |
| 9 | We may not want it but the government is going to demand it and we as custodians of the services on the part of the people of Cambridge , are going to have to do as sensibly and sensitively as possible . |
| 10 | We may not expect consumer behaviour , right , to be the same at all prices and quantities basically but er , nevertheless , you will probably see more linear demand curves than nonlinear ones because they are somewhat simpler . |
| 11 | These we may not entertain . |
| 12 | We may not possess the same mind structure , the same subtle energy anatomy and function , but enough similarities are present for some sort of meaning to be conveyed . |
| 13 | And we 're looking to , to do similar transactions in the U K , but of course with the lack of , or the reduced competition in the U K we , we may not do quite as well . |
| 14 | ‘ We may not bring them down but we can undermine their authority . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | This too is research , even though we may not honour it with the name . |
| 17 | In fact , we are all familiar with franchises , although we may not realise it . |
| 18 | John has found much to do which will not require to be again done in N.S.W. I still hope we may not exceed two years in our absence and I think John is as anxious as myself on the subject . |
| 19 | To suppose , as Levi-Strauss and others have done , that rules about exogamy " those we may not marry " and rules about incest — " those with whom we may not have sexual intercourse " — directly match up , so that one kind of rule can serve as an explanation for the other , is an ethnographic mistake . |
| 20 | We may not see this place again for a long time . ’ |
| 21 | Campbell concluded that we may not see the effect of economic recovery for at least a year — perhaps not until 1993 . |
| 22 | We did not know what the future might hold and had to face the possibility that we may not see each other again . |
| 23 | Like all his brothers , Charles was destined to outlive his wife ; and in a sense we may not wonder at that fact . |
| 24 | She I said , we may not ring them back |
| 25 | ‘ Yes , a pattern , of course we may not find it at once — ’ |
| 26 | ‘ There are times when we may not find each other attractive . ’ |
| 27 | He was quite prepared to argue the case that savage practices might be integral to a culture : ‘ We may not like the notion of cannibalism or head-hunting , but that it formed part of a distinct and tenable form of culture in Melanesia is indisputable . ’ |
| 28 | The counsellor may not be able to find the reason readily , or we may not like or agree with what we find , but nevertheless the reason will exist . |
| 29 | We may not like what fans do and we may view aggro leaders and their like as unhappy reminders of a violent society in which we live . |
| 30 | We may not like or respect our superiors , for example , but they will have power over us just because they occupy a position above us in the organisational hierarchy . |