Example sentences of "we not [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Should we not also still go for the , if we can , the one and a half times they work Saturdays ? |
| 2 | Are we not well enough aware that on the screen , as on the page , good news is no news ? |
| 3 | Why did we not just stop and camp ? |
| 4 | Could we not just put |
| 5 | could we not just circulate them ? |
| 6 | Erm , can we not just toss some thoughts |
| 7 | Well Terry confirmed that to me yesterday cos I asked the question could we not just run it |
| 8 | But here also we can not predict how the couplet will proceed ; not only do we not yet know the grammatical or syntactic pattern of the next line , or its lexical contents , but , more importantly , we do not know what kind of a relationship what we have read will bear to what we have yet to read . |
| 9 | May we not reasonably suppose that it had migrated from the central regions of this vast continent , which has yet much in store for future discovery ? |
| 10 | If a Government who embraced the social charter were returned from the Opposition parties , would we not soon be back in those waters and simply become an industrial desert ? |
| 11 | Hooker , in a now famous passage , asked : ‘ see we not plainly that obedience of creatures unto the law of nature is the stay of the whole world ? ’ |
| 12 | Instead of agonising over an indefinable concept of pain , why do we not simply study the individual 's efforts to stabilise its internal environment and then aid it or , at least , not intrude on those efforts without good reason ? |
| 13 | Why then can we not simply say that topless ( a ) and topless ( b ) are different ( although perhaps related ) lexemes ? |
| 14 | Should we not rather be appalled at their heedless and destructive course through a world where people daily perish within sight of their conspicuous profligacy ? |
| 15 | Ought we not rather to think in terms of partially intersecting views of context ? |
| 16 | Do we not immediately , and quite naturally , set about constructing some circumstances ( i.e. a ‘ context ’ ) in which the sentence could be acceptably used ? |
| 17 | For example , why do we not nowadays extensively see remedies causing ‘ more harm the larger the dose ’ ? after all the average dose from a tablet used today is approximately 50 times the dose of Hahnemann 's small granule . |
| 18 | ‘ We can hardly leave Landor here with her — think what might happen , on days like today , were we not here to be a calming influence ! ’ |
| 19 | Are we not already too many , simply too many , to be able to change the patterns deliberately ? |
| 20 | Have we not already witnessed on the television his Scargill-type debate on the floor of the House during MPs ' Question Time ? |
| 21 | Are we not deliciously innocent ? ’ |
| 22 | From a late twentieth-century perspective are we not more likely to disregard than dissect him ? |
| 23 | This sense of self is quite robust : when we wake up , we not only remember what we know , but also who we are . |
| 24 | True independence and self-determination come from recognising that we not only have responsibility for ourselves , but also obligations to others . |
| 25 | In normal or right sexuality , argues Scruton , we not only give recognition to the other 's person in and through our desire tor him or her , we also accord them accountability and care in the process . |
| 26 | Hence , we not only need to eat and drink , but we also enjoy it ; and friendships not only give us the security of being in a group , but also pleasure . |
| 27 | From our point of view , empathy is the most valuable form of communication with the horse , for we not only have insight into how the horse feels , but we intuitively understand the horse 's other forms of communication , like verbal messages and body language . |
| 28 | When we handle a young horse correctly , we not only caress it , hold it , and stroke it , and pick up its feet ; but we teach it to lead . |
| 29 | We not only provide practice in analysing experiences , but give students a glimpse of a more humane society and urge them to push back the boundaries that inhibit them . ’ |
| 30 | Like the mouse in the poem , when we consume more than our fair share of the earth 's resources , we not only force our brothers and sisters in other countries to go without , but we damage ourselves as well . |