Example sentences of "we [not/n't] be [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | Would we not be touching on areas that are sub judice , or which are the subject of possible legal action , which may or may not be taken ? |
2 | But would we not be calling |
3 | Is professional money advice still a subject creditors can afford to ignore , or should we not be moving towards full recognition and co-operation and all its implications ? |
4 | If we seek historically aware performances in this repertory , should we not be seeking to make informed decisions about tempos and their relationships ( and consequent effects on inequality ) by considering the available evidence of mensural traditions , time-words and notated timings , rather than ignoring it ? |
5 | Why can we not be told ? |
6 | Could we not be told that after Wellesley 's magnificent Arabian charger , Diomed , left him by a brother officer killed in a squalid duel , was piked at Assaye he insisted he should be nursed back to fitness and not put down like the other wounded horses ? |
7 | If it 's happening so often then should we not be having our own procedure for that to happen ? |
8 | Oh that 's November , December can we not be doing something in those five weeks on the environment ? |
9 | But let us not be led astray : the practice of homosexuality is anathema to all Christian people and not just in Europe . |
10 | Let us not be fooled by short termism met by silly schemes that somehow promise an Eldorado which does n't exist . |
11 | There will be many causes , James — let us not be speculating , and frightening ourselves . |