Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [adv] [adv] [subord] we " in BNC.

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1 ‘ When the recovery does come , we will not benefit as quickly as we should .
2 When the recovery comes we will not benefit as quickly as we should .
3 Whether this is the way they express themselves does not matter so long as we can establish that this is the substance of their view .
4 Can we not do more even than we 're doing at the moment to restore to the centre of the life of the church the glorious concept of a team of pastoral care and a high command of power strategy in which dominance by ministers will be reduced to the minimum in order that together we may be ready to let the lifeblood of Christ flow through us in such a way that we will be better able to welcome the twenty first century in his name .
5 It is easy to blame the pressure of daily life and the stress it causes for the fact that we do not feel as well as we should like — and , indeed , in many cases an excess of stress and tension may be the cause .
6 If my readers still doubt this let them consider the situation as we find it among societies which have not advanced as far as we have , for instance , among the aborigines of Central Australia .
7 Intelligent input/output board supplier , Byfleet , Surrey-based Specialix Ltd , says its flagship product , the transputer-based RIO controller , is n't going down the storm that it had hoped it would : even OEM deals with the likes of Groupe Bull SA have not boosted sales , says marketing director , Ian Cummins , ‘ RIO is not selling as well as we thought it would … and our estimations on its performance in the market are nine months ahead of what has actually happened ’ .
8 Many of us do not sleep as well as we might , because we are unable to relax when we go to bed .
9 But managing director Mr Peter Jarvis admitted : ‘ Because of the squeeze on spending , retailing , particularly in the South-east , is not doing so well as we had hoped . ’
10 Er so I suspect it 's not worked out quite as we intended er and it I mean the main problem is that it 's it 's it 's cost us time , cost me time which I would rather have spent on something else but there we are .
11 At first there was a lack of trust between us : I thought they were not trying hard enough as we went over and over the same issues ; they thought I was trying to take over .
12 The issue of access is just one of the barriers that we have not tackled as positively as we would have wished .
13 ‘ We do n't know yet exactly when we will take delivery of the scanner but we would hope it will be some time early in the coming financial year which starts in April , ’ he said .
14 But it does n't matter as far as we 're concerned because one side of Katrina is just as bright as the other side .
15 The only slight criticism I could have was that maybe we did n't finish as well as we should have , ’ he said .
16 The only problem was that it did n't work out quite as we were expecting it to …
17 Wind , rain , chemical erosion gradually wear into it and the stone that they used for some of the repair of the cathedral in the years gone by has n't worn as well as we would have hoped .
18 Dysart nodded , considered the point for a moment then said : ‘ Some might say it was a sign she had n't recovered as well as we 'd hoped . ’
19 ‘ We need to check what he was doing those days , anyway — I did n't try too hard when we were last there , because I hoped the autopsy might give us something .
20 We had n't gone as far as we would have liked , and it was touch and go until the very last moment , but we just squeezed past the point between Tanakeke island and the mainland .
21 We had n't gone very far when we met up with another Lancaster returning from a Cook 's Tour , and to my horror the two aircraft then flew wing-tip to wing-tip all the way home .
22 I think it still is the way forward and I do n't think it was so much that things went wrong as that they did n't go as well as we had hoped for the women elections to the shadow cabinet .
23 With the growth in pre-marital sexual experience which has taken place , it might be supposed that selection of a long-term partner on these lines would be easier ; but human beings still have a tendency to believe that everything will be all right in the end and a surprising number have said to me , " things did n't go too well before we married but I thought they 'd work out . "
24 I was exp it 's amazing the neighbours did n't come round actually cos we was n't exactly quiet was we ?
25 Well we 'll pop down , oh we ca n't pop down tomorrow unless we go before , get in the morning , before we go to work across to Steve 's , if it 's fine it 'll be a good walk over there
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