Example sentences of "we [be] not [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Many different early blueprints may play into this and compound the fear of the opposite sex , but we are not elaborating on this , as homosexuality is not the subject of this book . ) |
| 2 | ‘ But we are not getting into this game . |
| 3 | In this , the statement by the Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission ( ARCIC ) II , ‘ Salvation and the Church ’ , is a major breakthrough because theologians from the Roman Catholic and Anglican Communions were able to state together the ‘ once-for-all ’ offering of Christ on the cross , and that we are not saved by good works but for good works . |
| 4 | ‘ We are not leaving at six . ’ |
| 5 | We are not to suppose of this machine that when a chocolate bar does not come out there exists a causal circumstance which necessitates the failure . |
| 6 | We are not engaged in any sort of crusade . |
| 7 | Well in the first place , I have made clear throughout , and I have a record their of over twenty years that people can have a look at , but I made clear throughout , as has Mr Adams , that we are not engaged in secret deals , secret deals do n't solve problems . |
| 8 | When we talk about part-time holdings in any context — certainly in an island context — we are not speaking about small static parcels of land with which we can play about like pieces in a jig-saw puzzle . |
| 9 | What is clear , however , is that we are not dealing with lexical ambiguity . |
| 10 | We are not dealing with political issues , civil rights is not a political issue but a moral issue . ’ |
| 11 | We made it clear that the list of authors was not intended to be comprehensive : ‘ We stress again that we are not recommending as set texts the books of the authors listed … |
| 12 | We have been involved in research of a very similar nature for some time , and although we are not publishing in such august journals as The Phyrologist you may be interested to learn of our most recent advance . |
| 13 | We are not quarrelling with this decision in any way , because I believe that our full-time forces are already overstretched for the roles and tasks that the Government have outlined for them both in and out of area , and that the territorial forces play a vital support role . |
| 14 | When we speak of ‘ culture ’ we are not thinking about high-brow music , or good table manners . |
| 15 | It does n't make sense , does it ? … this way we are not represented at all . |
| 16 | Dr Alun Gee , NRA technical manager for the Welsh region , said , ‘ We are not looking for any relaxation in current standards ’ and the objectives will contain a ‘ no deterioration ’ clause . |
| 17 | We are not summoned to that but to the great banquet afterwards . |
| 18 | We are not used to long poems these days , and we no longer expect poetry to do the work of history , psychology and the novel , or to find ‘ the spirit of the age ’ expressed in poetic medium . |
| 19 | In other words we are not talking about subtle errors of judgement , but major fumbles , demonstrations of serious incompetence . |
| 20 | Remember that we are not talking about conscious strategies ( though at times we might be ) , but about strategies in the ‘ Maynard Smithian ’ sense , strategies of the kind that genes might preprogram . |
| 21 | We are not talking about local government ; we are talking about a strategic layer of government . |
| 22 | Mr Hattersley said : ‘ We are not talking about huge sums of money , millions rather than billions . ’ |
| 23 | And we must remember that we are not talking about any newts , we 're talking about very special newts , |
| 24 | Furthermore , we are not left in any doubt as to whether we are fully accepted . |
| 25 | What we are not told in this benign dispensation is that the modest freedoms that permit us to oscillate between radical free-marketeering and limited state intervention apply strictly to the rich countries . |
| 26 | For the sake of our service and their users we must ensure we are not overrun by those events . |
| 27 | Sadly Mr 's proposal fell on a technicality , but I think he put his finger on something which I felt the assembly was , was responding to , that we are not finished with this issue and although it fell on a technicality about money , perhaps without making any addendums and motions we might er refuse this addendum and keep our minds on the baptism issue and hope that the Board of Practice and Procedure and the panel on doctrine will pick up the substance and the , the essence of what Mr was asking for and pursue this matter until as a church we can get it sorted out to the satisfaction of all the groups within the church . |
| 28 | When we have cares , we are not to look to pagan religious practices and philosophies for respite , but we are to be as the Apostle Peter put it ‘ Casting all your care upon him , for he careth for you . ’ |
| 29 | And at the syntactic level we are not committed to any one particular formalism , but rather can consider a number of different formalisms . |
| 30 | At the time , I thought , this is a bit like shopping for people , and we are n't trained for that , not in our society . |