Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] we [verb] not [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 I thought that I had made it clear that we did not make a profit on the war .
2 However , against the demagoguery of the hon. Member for Barrow and Furness , it is important for us to make it clear that we do not intend creating unemployment through a change of policy , which means a more peaceful role for our Government .
3 John , in the prologue to his Gospel , makes it clear that we do not become God 's children by natural means , that is , by being born as children of a human father , but by receiving Christ as God 's son and our saviour ( John 1:12–13 ) .
4 ‘ The women said ‘ If the children are small , their mortality is so high that we do not dare to stop childbirth ’ .
5 I am afraid that we do not have later figures , figures for registered disabled people or figures comparable with the monthly claimant count .
6 I am afraid that we do not discuss in the Chamber applications for private notice questions .
7 Some moralists say that if we regard immediacy or physical nearness as relevant , we must be failing in rationality or imagination ; we are irrational if we do not recognize that those starving elsewhere have as big a claim on us as those starving here .
8 And then some NATO aircraft too , of course , we 're in Great Britain , so it would n't be fitting and proper if we did not have any of the aircraft from the Royal Air force .
9 I would certainly like to see it , and we 'd be foolish if we did not consider it . ’
10 I think you , Mr Chairman , it would be totally improper if we did not raise the issue within the within the budget if we did not raise the issue of election members and the expenses of election members .
11 This confusion is partly due to any difficulty we find in accepting that the solution to a long standing problem could be so simple ; confusion may also arise because , being influenced by the pace of today 's world , we presume that we are doing something wrong when we do not achieve immediate results .
12 Indeed it is possible that we do not understand these things very well unless standardization is taken into account .
13 I am sorry that we did not manage to pin the overspending of Labour authorities on those authorities and that we did not have a chance to repeat across the country the electoral triumphs that we enjoyed in Trafford , Southend , Brent , Hillingdon , Ealing , Wandsworth and Westminster .
14 Having conquered the killer epidemics of infectious diseases it seems strange that we do not have a greater life expectancy in this sense too .
15 This would mean that all of the degrees in theology , faithful church attendance and good works are worthless if we do not have it together in this one area .
16 A second way of implying an operand is by encoding it as part of the operation code , although the range of values is very restricted as we do not wish to allocate many operation codes in this way .
17 Many of us feel uncomfortable when we do not have a pattern to follow .
18 It is clear from our analysis in the previous section that we do not expect the strange invariant set produced at r 13.926 to be stable and we do not expect it to show up in numerical simulations ; the behaviour described in ( 2 ) and ( 3 ) above ( r } 13.926 ) can not be predicted from the purely local analysis .
19 Any baby is divine and we do not grudge the Christ child that designation .
20 To come closer to our present concern , there is no more hope for the idea that a certain determinism is false because we do not aspire to prove it , but rather proceed in several alternative ways , including probabilistic ways , on the assumption of its truth .
21 ‘ I think we are quite unique because we do not want to take their money and run .
22 The purpose of etiquette is to provide an easy set of rules which we can follow when we are in a hurry and want to make sure that we do not give offence to anybody .
23 We must judge the second world war differently , but let us make sure that we do not repeat the mistakes that so many politicians thoughout Europe made over the past 100 years .
24 Let us make sure that we do not direct our anger and frustration onto people who are only trying to help us .
25 We should , however , recognise the problems that might arise as a result and make sure that we do not misinterpret any problem .
26 Yes , as long as this possibly is n't major that we do not agree on ?
27 Lord Willis , who put several amendments to try and defeat the Clause , said in one of his speeches that ‘ It is curious that we do not hear too much about the heterosexuals and the way they flaunt themselves .
28 The findings are strictly confidential and we do not know if these athletes were allowed to compete .
29 I do think , however , that we should hit the Enemy in the public world , and even set up outposts and command centres there , as long as we do not forget that the kingdom can not be built as a nation state or a political empire .
30 The first we step into we call the infant or thoughtless Chamber , in which we remain as long as we do not think … we no sooner get into the second Chamber , which I shall call the Chamber of Maiden-Thought , than we become intoxicated with the light and the atmosphere , we see nothing but pleasant wonders , and think of delaying there for ever in delight .
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