Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [conj] we " in BNC.
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| 1 | If that is right , the difficulty to which we have referred does not arise and we need not grapple with the implications of sub-rule ( 3 ) . |
| 2 | THE North-South divide may not exist as we thought . |
| 3 | The beliefs which , he suggests , play this special role for us now include the belief that I have two hands , that men do not fly to the moon , that the sun is not a hole in the sky , that the earth has existed during the last century and that our hands do not disappear when we are not paying attention to them . |
| 4 | He does not think that we need to have studied , in moral philosophy , the reduction of the ‘ motions of the mind ’ to natural philosophy in order to understand , in political philosophy , the causes of ‘ the civil duties of a subject ’ . |
| 5 | Mr Pearse said : ‘ Do not think that we have not been fighting for the price of Midland shares that we have just received . |
| 6 | I do not think that we can turn back the tide of secularisation altogether in the area of dying , but we can call a halt to it by giving some serious thought to practices within our society and churches . |
| 7 | ‘ Do not think that we are lovers , Mr D'Arcy . |
| 8 | I do not think that we should be against such moral principles . |
| 9 | I do not think that we have yet succeeded in taking in fully what quantum mechanical non-locality implies about the nature of the world . |
| 10 | The cost of rehabilitating a patient after a heart attack is somewhat less than being in a hospital bed for a third of a day , so I do not think that we are denting the NHS 's resources by providing this for everybody . |
| 11 | For reasons to which I shall refer later I do not think that we should do that . |
| 12 | That being so , I do not think that we ought to attempt beforehand to classify all the occasions upon which it may be proper to make such an order … |
| 13 | I do not think that we have had such a clear picture before of the extraordinarily wide variations between different parts of the country . |
| 14 | With regard to the need for direct and close contact , I do not think that we could have had a clearer example of that than the visit of President Yeltsin and the very straight talking between my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister and the president . |
| 15 | I do not think that we need visual aids . |
| 16 | I do not think that we shall . |
| 17 | Clem Attlee nationalised the Bank of England because he did not think that we should have rule by central bankers . |
| 18 | I do not think that we should either underestimate or understate the magnitude of its consequences . |
| 19 | No , I do not think that we need to hear any more points of order . |
| 20 | I do not think that we can achieve more in this forum . |
| 21 | ‘ The Commission does not think that we should expect an increase of prices … |
| 22 | ‘ I do not think if we had put down a motion which said we believe in motherhood and sliced bread the Labour Party would have backed us , ’ he said . |
| 23 | A council spokesman said : ‘ We can not comment because we have n't received anything yet . |
| 24 | I do not recollect that we ever tried it , although my father did bring me home a bottle containing two or three sticks of white phosphorus , at the same time showing me the mark on his thigh where , so he said , a piece of phosphorus has fallen while he was attempting to write on a wall with it . |
| 25 | I do not know whether we dragons loved her or hated her ; her will was like iron , as fast clad as our scaled hides , but her heart was like a songbird in the morning and she was as lovely as the lilies of the field . |
| 26 | For example , we do not know whether we should attribute Stevenage 's low casualty rates ( 3.9 per 1,000 population in 1979 compared to 6.5 for British towns as a whole ) to its pedestrianised town centre , its extensive cycleway system or some other reason . |
| 27 | So she smiled on and stood there and in exasperation Mrs Browning said , ‘ I do not know that we should continue this discussion , Wilson . |
| 28 | She was allowed to continue with her mending — she did not know that we had spread a thick layer of gum upon the chair and was surprised at the alacrity with which we saw to all her needs so that she should never move . |
| 29 | This argument turned out to be the one that forced us to admit in the first place that we do not know that we are not brains in vats . |
| 30 | The Outer Face : This is how other people really see us — and this is the Face we can not know unless we ask those whom we trust to tell us their true opinions . |