Example sentences of "we [verb] not [adv] [vb infin] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We ended up in the desert and we did not even see the same mirage . |
| 2 | It was plain then that we did not much like the French way . |
| 3 | With hindsight , it is clear that at the time we did not fully grasp the real significance of the workers ' position . |
| 4 | Thus this can be used to refer to a forthcoming portion of the discourse , as in ( 88 ) , and that to a preceding portion , as in ( 89 ) : ( 88 ) I bet you have n't heard this story ( 89 ) That was the funniest story I 've ever heard Considerable confusion is likely to be caused here if we do not immediately make the distinction between discourse deixis and anaphora . |
| 5 | Although we do not presently know the functional in vivo sites for pou[c] binding , the results reported here strongly suggest that these sites should be related to the TAATGARAT- and/or degenerate octamer-TAATGA motifs rather than the canonical octamer motif . |
| 6 | On a theory of understanding which linked what we can understand with what we could come to recognise as true , the distinction collapses and all the relevant sceptical arguments will be of the strongest type ; that is , will claim that we do not even understand the propositions we claim to know . |
| 7 | How can we know the answers if we do not even ask the questions ? |
| 8 | We do not demand a ban on all sterilisation just because some women are forced to be sterilised , we do not even attack the whole concept of a well are state just because of abuses like the cohabitation rule , so why oppose pay for childcare solely because it might be abused ? |
| 9 | Although there is no direct evidence on the subject of Richard 's upbringing and education — we do not even know the names of his tutors as we do in his father 's case — it is none the less possible , by using romances and treatises , to reconstruct the type of education which he must have undergone . |
| 10 | ‘ We do not automatically dispense the pill , ’ she said . |
| 11 | Already we have a few examples of the end-product of several stages of processing , although we do not yet understand the mechanisms . |
| 12 | If we do not yet have the solution to the problem of consciousness , we are at least working towards it within the right framework . |
| 13 | I do this not only because the issues are easier to grasp in the case of perception than in the case of voluntary movement , but also because neurophysiologists of movement are less prone to wild claims than neurophysiologists of perception : most of the former would admit that we do not yet have the faintest idea how voluntary activity is able to utilize or over-ride reflex pathways ; how we mobilize so-called ‘ motor programmes ’ when we need them ; or even where in the nervous system voluntary movement is initiated . |
| 14 | In the short term , disappointment at this result may be tempered by the knowledge that we do not yet have the burden of the large numbers of additional students already taken by some of the immediate winners in this competition . |
| 15 | Perhaps we do not yet have the tools for a scientific resolution of this task and this is where Utopian thinking may aid us in identifying our political goals . |
| 16 | Unfortunately we do not yet know the accuracy of the three tests in combination . |
| 17 | We do not yet know the exact form the correct theory of quantum gravity will take . |
| 18 | Of course , we do not yet know the precise values of the coefficients of the solution , the π 's , but we can now begin to work them out . |
| 19 | We do not yet know the implications for job numbers of the reorganisation , but as stated in the AEA Times Bulletin there may be a need to plan for more reductions than previously anticipated . |
| 20 | Negotiations for contracts after 1993 have not started , so we do not yet know the tonnages or the volumes . |
| 21 | We do not yet know the precise figures required — that is up to British Coal . |
| 22 | But the fathers also insisted , and believing Christians have proclaimed it ever since , that although we do not fully understand the relationship between God and the Devil , the inescapable fact about Satan is that he has declared war on God and his creation . |
| 23 | But we do not readily understand the subtle nuances of meaning and expression which members of the same species can communicate to each other . |
| 24 | It remains true , however , that we do not now have the means to deploy this approach wholeheartedly , so that anyone who insists on its universal applicability must be taken , at least for the moment , to be committing an act of faith . |
| 25 | We do not all have the same ministries . |
| 26 | We do not all have the same function within the body of Christ . |
| 27 | If we do not actually receive the money within this period , our computer will automatically cancel your reservation and we can not be held responsible if that holiday is subsequently not available . |
| 28 | After consultations with other Western governments the United States adminstration on April 24 drew back from any punitive measures against the Soviet Union over its blockade of Lithuania ( officials having previously hinted at possible limited economic sanctions ) , when President Bush gave a clear indication at a press conference that the administration considered Gorbachev 's political survival and good Soviet-US relations to be more important than Lithuanian independence , explaining : " I am concerned that we do not inadvertently compel the Soviet Union to do something that would set back the whole process of freedom around the world . " |
| 29 | We are poor guardians if we do not ensure its unalterable right to childhood , to mystery , to dreams , to tenderness and to love ; if we do not realise that by ceasing to provide authority we may also cease to care ; if we do not conscientiously maintain the spiritual foundations without which the young can not build anew ; if we do not teach that there is a third way , neither reactionary nor libertarian , which still waits to be explored . |
| 30 | Our ability to recognise words which violate the spelling-to-sound rules is in itself a demonstration that we do not always use the GPC route ; but a simple experiment can also serve this purpose . |