Example sentences of "we [modal v] not [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if you can raise that profile which I talk about , the of the ethics of of your trade , your profession and become , in effect , a pressure group , a pressure group for the public good , while we may not always agree with you , and indeed we 're going to say that we do n't agree with you and you must n't be afraid of that but we would rather hear from you , you 're the men and women at the sharp end , I hesitate to say ‘ experts ’ because ‘ expert ’ is a , a rather over-used word but we 'd much rather hear from you , at the sharp end , than the part-time politicians who , by the very nature of , of their role , and however well-meaning they may be , they have other priorities . |
| 2 | Enlightenment demands that we should not simply engage in the practices that are part of these rational pursuits ( submitting to their different forms of ‘ groundedness ’ ) , but that we should maintain our own integrity . |
| 3 | We should not just go through the Lobbies — half the time I do so without knowing for what I am voting . |
| 4 | Just because it is convenient to single out some policies for special attention , and just because there are courses on social policy that require the study of a specific and limited range of public policies , we should not therefore fall into the trap of seeing these as the main government contributions to welfare , or the ‘ general good ’ . |
| 5 | Leading up on this as the members state at the E C , I believe we should not only have for the benefits of the European legislation to protect employees , but also to seek , form and strengthen links with the European union . |
| 6 | Do I detect then that the general feeling is that we should n't even tamper with this . |
| 7 | To bring our participants ' social world to life in the kind of detail that is likely to carry conviction we must not just plunge into descriptions of the world of school and football ground , since without the concepts to see it no alternative to the official picture is likely to emerge . |
| 8 | We must not again get into the situation where the working of our Garden Records system was dependent on keeping an obsolete computer going well past its normal expected lifetime . |
| 9 | ‘ We must not now add to the burden facing the medical staff and the Bland family by taking part in emotional or noisy demonstrations ’ . |
| 10 | We must not only abide by a precise form , but also build up the right waves of emotion to give it full human significance . |
| 11 | We must n't ever bother with that . |
| 12 | But , we could n't actually go into the department , cos you have to wear your wellies and all that . |
| 13 | We could n't really fail at home , not with this support . ’ |
| 14 | or saying we could n't really take to their child , |
| 15 | And from that Sunday the tent collapsed we could n't really concentrate on anything else . |
| 16 | In Saint-Moritz we were able to do things we could n't possibly arrange during the season . |
| 17 | They brought presents of ham , nuts , cakes and bottles of wine for the journey , most of which we could n't possibly take with us as we had no room in our suitcases . |
| 18 | We could n't quite run to a good boarding-school , so we chose Burleigh . ’ |
| 19 | As we came upon the moving picture with its ability not only to entertain us but also to analyse what we could not easily see with the unaided eye , we began to recognize that we had new tools for discovery ; we now knew exactly how a horse used its feet in galloping , what an explosion was like in slow motion , what a street looked like to the condensed eye of the time-lapse camera . |
| 20 | If the training set also includes cats , dogs and cows , then we could not always ask for these values . |
| 21 | We would not even pass for distant cousins let alone members of the same nuclear family unit . |
| 22 | We would not normally insist on the wording in square brackets where the client 's legal advisers consider that the words are not required . |
| 23 | A NatWest Home Improvement Loan can be taken out in sole or joint names and unless you 're thinking of borrowing more than £5,000 we would not normally ask for security . |
| 24 | Loans can be in sole or joint names and unless you are thinking of borrowing above £5000 , we would not usually ask for security . |
| 25 | And I think that whereas erm we would not necessarily argue with a case for providing criteria at a strategic plan at a structure plan level erm to put some flesh on what is meant and maybe clarify some of the explanatory memorandum in a more positive way , simply should ensure that the policy does not dilute , sorry that whatever changes emerge , does not dilute the mode intention of the policy . |
| 26 | ‘ I mean , we ca n't simply go from table to table asking , can we ? ’ |
| 27 | cos we ca n't just stand by and watch her fade away can we ? |
| 28 | Now that the spectre of pregnancy is out of the way , is there any reason why we ca n't just continue with the relationship begun on Gullholm ? ’ |
| 29 | We ca n't just nip on a coach and go somewhere for the day . |
| 30 | We ca n't take our drink — we ca n't just sip at it , we have to get blotto . |