Example sentences of "we [not/n't] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the purpose is to protect the individual , why do we not sign the European social charter , as every other country is prepared to do ? |
| 2 | Then , her mouth full of hairpins , she asked , ‘ Why should we not go together , now , to the Lyceum ? ’ |
| 3 | Why can we not go down the same road ? |
| 4 | Why do we not mimic the professionals or their caddies in other areas of the game ? |
| 5 | Do we not owe it to community charge payers in each of those areas to ensure that the best value is obtained for their money and that they get the most efficient service ? |
| 6 | Can , can we Mr chairman can we not suggest erm the fact that , to the three executives , that the subscription stay the same for three or six month period until unison and members are balloted on |
| 7 | And why should we not think ill of the dead , she wondered suddenly , for they can not hear , word can not be passed to them , they can not be hurt . |
| 8 | Before we make any radical changes such as doing away with jury trials , should we not think very carefully indeed ? |
| 9 | Might we not accuse Sartre of the same ? |
| 10 | If a passage can be reduced to a set of elementary propositions of the kind approximately represented in [ 9 ] , can we not regard this as the neutral , " styleless " version against which all other paraphrases , such as [ 8 ] , are stylistically marked in varying degrees ? |
| 11 | While an acquittal does not falsify police results , may we not regard a conviction as verifying them ? |
| 12 | Are we not faced with the same old story of a badly managed project with inadequate monitoring — in other words , Government incompetence ? |
| 13 | Who should we not embrace them as a general strategy for legislation whenever the community is divided over some issue of principle ? |
| 14 | Not only do we not talk about death , but we do everything we can to hide it from view and pretend that mortality is just a myth . |
| 15 | Well can we not talk about page one first ? |
| 16 | The lower classes — if we talk about upper and middle how can we not talk about lower ? — served tea , beer , gin and stodgy food , cut as often as not into hamfisted wedges , fit to fill the belly not the hand , and , understanding that the band was working for a living , treated it with respect and decorum . |
| 17 | Can we not talk the matter over later in private ? |
| 18 | Have we not seen that producers are entrepreneurs who can neverbe immune from the forces of competition ? |
| 19 | Gregor Townsend later managed to pass to the referee — clad in near identical colours to the Scots — for the Samoans to plunder ball and scuttle in for the first of their three tries , though it might have been more had we not seen defensive heroics typified by a timely tackle on Leilane Une by Derek Turnbull . |
| 20 | But have we not seen this all before in Witness when Harrison Ford tries to assimilate with the Amish ? |
| 21 | Then we 'll see can we not set you next in line for chief of Clan Gillian . ’ |
| 22 | Erm in view of your last ruling er Mr Deputy Speaker , is it in order to discuss different voting systems , are we not discussing those eligible to vote and the parliamentary constituencies ? |
| 23 | Should we not remind the House that that legislation was supposed to stand the test of time ? |
| 24 | ‘ May we not lend you a mount , Miss Abbott ? ’ |
| 25 | Right , we , we , we did actually draw , or we not draw , we , we adopted a constitution during the year and the officers that are erm elected are the Chair , the Secretary and the Treasurer , erm and other , together with other such officers , yeah to determine by general meeting , erm , so it 's really only those three , er and we have sometimes had Advice Chair if there 's only been one Chairman have n't we , one Chair person erm so I think people need to say if they do n't wish to carry on the jobs they 're doing and if anybody wishes to nominate anyone in a particular post then slip at the bottom of the minutes could be filled in and either brought to meeting or sent back to the Secretary . |
| 26 | Can we not reach conclusions today which I sense has some possibility of consensus ? |
| 27 | Instead of erroneously portraying the social charter as a formula for increased unemployment and as a dangerous capitulation to the trade unions , should we not realise that a policy of co-determination that gives employees a say and a stake in the running of their firms is the very reason why the economies of so many western European countries have been so successful ? |
| 28 | Er approximately eight hundred hectares I think , and I suppose the cynical amongst us might might say what has the allocation of of nearly a hundred hectares of land adjacent to the A one , some of which is in in greenbelt , what has that got anything to do with the er vitality of of Leeds commercial centre or urban regeneration , but we accept that 's a that 's a matter for Leeds , we not objecting to their proposals . |
| 29 | We not write , in partitioned form , |
| 30 | The rumour gained credence , I suspect , through a call made to the Museum by a reporter from National Public Radio who said she had heard Mr Kissinger had called me to request we not present the exhibition . |