Example sentences of "let [pron] [not/n't] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Developer conferences these days seem to harbour a deep-seated resentment of Microsoft and , unfortunately , Allchin is not the most charismatic senior executive that Microsoft could have fielded — frankly he killed himself by an overlong demo ( and let us not forget that Gates himself is probably the only competitor to Jobs ’ title of demo king ) that crashed a couple of times . |
| 32 | Or let us not forget that research on Japan in the 1930s has revealed conflicts of interest between and within the military , zaibatsu , politicians and the bureaucracy . |
| 33 | Amid all the tales of scroungers , it said , let us not forget the deserving poor ; and its journalists located hardship cases with impeccable credentials . |
| 34 | But let us not forget the reputation for compassion in which Britain still leads the world … ’ |
| 35 | Nevertheless , let us not forget that the cost of our massive boat building and shoreworks modernisation programmes has arisen significantly , as has the expense of operating our lifeboat service . |
| 36 | But let us not forget that he gave his life in an act of selfless devotion to the race . |
| 37 | ‘ I have cantered among the hyenas of the Serengeti as they brought down wildebeest ; I have danced the Wellington Boot Dance with the Zulu in the township hostels ; I have tiptoed through the Bibliothèque Nationale , listening to the gummy gumming of mundane scholars ; I have shelled prawns with slant-eyed androgynes in the polyglot souks of the uttermost East ; I have reached the nadir of a nonsensical number of psycho-sexual trances , both in the Amazonian hinterland and the plastic cultures of the Pacific rim ; I have subsumed myself to the circuitry of artificial cerebella in the silicone wadis ; I have crawled down the barrels of guns on all five continents , only to spring forth again — triumphant ; I have tittered in the stalls and tottered by the walls festooned with epicene opera-lovers ; I have sallied forth into the salons of the old world and the new ; I have hefted steins in the beerhalls and pinched flutes in the Shires ; I have raced laggardly protons around the cyclotron , revelling in the sempiternal sciamachy ; and — let us not forget — I have also hidden under couches whilst the moneyed pulers petted their kittenish neuroses , imagining themselves trusted , secluded . |
| 38 | It is only right that we should analyse and debate the internal workings of the trade and its infrastructure , but let us not forget who pays our wages — the consumer . |
| 39 | And I think it is , we would all agree , that it is essential that an agreement which is acceptable to all sides is reached , and I 'm sure that it 's going to be because let us not forget that we 're not in business to remain in perpetual opposition if we are to achieve proper rights for employees , which have been so reduced by the Conservatives if we are to save the welfare state , which is now so under threat if we are to obtain decent health and education services , which are also under threat if we are to create a strong economy and a strong recovery which provides the jobs which we so desperately need then we must win power ! |
| 40 | Let us not forget the experience of the past 10 years , during which time we have had more experience of guillotine motions than in the whole of the previous history of Parliament . |
| 41 | If we value independence in foreign policy making , let us not forget what happened in 1940 . |
| 42 | I appreciate the arguments that go on nowadays , but let us not forget that the old crossings were not suitable for the disabled , which is why , in the case to which I am referring , it seemed unnecessary for the authority to insist on a ramp being built . |
| 43 | Let us not forget young Imre varadi . |
| 44 | Exactly , and let us not forget this either . |
| 45 | ‘ Let us not forget dear Marissa … ! ’ |
| 46 | ‘ But let us not forget that when most of us were children Bradford and Leicester were themselves Darlingtons , recognisably a part of the same country as ours . ’ |
| 47 | Let us not forget also that some of these theatres have afforded splendid opportunities to new Scottish plays and playwrights , and with other agencies have striven to promote the life and culture of Scotland . |
| 48 | ‘ Let us not speak , for the love we bear one another — let us hold hands and look . ’ |
| 49 | Let us not leave it to others to fight for our goals . ’ |
| 50 | ‘ Ladies and gentlemen , ’ he said when the police chiefs hurrying back was out of sight , ‘ let us not make ourselves deceived . |
| 51 | Dear children , let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth . ’ |
| 52 | We offered the Government time , saying , ’ Let us not waste each other 's time : let us abolish the poll tax now , and get rid of it by April 1992 . ’ |
| 53 | Let us not attach too much weight to it , because the overall response rate from the 18 district health authorities surveyed was 15 per cent . |
| 54 | Disparate , disparate , a hundred opinions , a hundred cross-currents , in this blond Georgian drawing-room : ancestral echoes of ancient Victorian philanthropy of the Clapham school mingled with louche ghosts of Bloomsbury , public-school public servants held hands with hybrid tieless entrepreneurs of the television aristocracy , new modes of moneyed brutality addressed old shrinking brutality , the educated sons ( well , let us not exaggerate , one educated son ) of one skilled manual worker maintained an exchange with one exhausted feudal Northumbrian homosexual neurosurgeon , and the accents of North London raised themselves melodiously , classlessly , incomprehensibly , from the throats of the variously reared young , from the singing birds of the future , in their indeterminate , as yet unidentifiable plumage . |
| 55 | Despite the recent changes in South Africa , let us not pretend that it is suddenly squeaky clean . |
| 56 | However , let us not pretend that there can not be a choice . |
| 57 | Let us not pause to envisage , let alone to attempt to solve , what may be comprehended within that phrase of comforting generally , a ‘ service charge ’ . |
| 58 | And to think , he wrote , that with all my previous work I barely knew what step to take first , let alone what step to take second , let us not talk about the third . |
| 59 | By all means let us seek to prevent congenital abnormalities , but let us not betray our Hippocratic tradition in the process . |
| 60 | Yes , we are living in Hard Times ; but no , let us not go gently on to that good ledge . |