Example sentences of "but we [vb mod] not [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rest of Europe will now construct the social institutions of Europe with Britain excluded — but we shall not be excluded from being influenced by what they do in the short term . |
| 2 | ‘ But we shall not be altering our style of play just because it is Swansea . |
| 3 | But we must not be misled by the atmosphere of religious exaltation : the pagans are , by implication , cattle for the slaughter ; the call is not to missionary work , nor even to humane conquest , if such a thing exists , but to slaughter . |
| 4 | In the modern world , we are reduced to an idealized figment of the communist imagination or we fall into secular despair , but we can not be exalted as a personal being , uniquely loved for our own sake . |
| 5 | But we can not be forced to subject our foreign policy to the will of other member states . |
| 6 | This tension between political practice and the established constitutional theory suggests that the constitution may once again be in crisis and liable to change , but we will not be dealing with those questions until Chapter 4 . |
| 7 | ‘ Llanelli was a setback , and we are not sure of our best Test side , but we will not be wanting in confidence . ’ |
| 8 | A Palace spokesman said : ‘ The letter is a forgery but we will not be pressing for a criminal inquiry . |
| 9 | In about the middle of the fifth century Syracuse introduced the radical-seeming device of petalism ( which like Athenian ostracism was a way of getting rid of prominent enemies , except that olive ‘ petals ’ i.e. leaves , not sherds , ostraka , were used ) ; but we should not be deceived . |