Example sentences of "we [adv] [verb] not [vb infin] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | James Baker , the secretary of state , told Congress recently that his review of Middle East policy convinced him long before the invasion of Kuwait that the ‘ old view that we somehow did not want the Soviets involved is a mistake ’ . |
| 2 | One thing that we did was find that there were molecules much , much bigger than was expected in the sense that there were many , many more carbon atoms involved than had previously been thought possible , and even now we just do not understand the processes whereby they are formed . |
| 3 | We just do not have the information to go on . ’ |
| 4 | As the great British biologist/mathematician J.B.S. Haldane commented , human beings would be hard pressed , however long natural selection acted upon them , to sprout the wings of an angel ; we just do not have the genes that would even begin to provide the appropriate structures , and past selection has never acted to provide us with these structures . |
| 5 | We just do not know the natures we are supposed to know , or how various properties follow from them . |
| 6 | ‘ On a couple of occasions we just did not get the bounce of the ball . |
| 7 | The year began with cold clammy fogs , and although some industry had come to a standstill because of workers called to the colours , and factories bombed by the enemy , we still did not have the Clean Air Act , and there was still quite a lot of smoke from domestic fires , and from the slack coal burnt by factories making munitions . |
| 8 | After our return from France we felt that we still did not have the complete story of that operation , and so we went to the Public Records Office at Kew to look up the records of 22 Squadron over that period . |
| 9 | Quite unexpectedly , we found that there was another type of ganglion cell which we called the on-type directionally selective because , when plotting their receptive fields with a stationary spot , they only responded at onset , unlike the other type I have just illustrated which responded at both onset and offset ; we still do not understand the reason for this , but it led us to discover other differences . |
| 10 | We still do not know the full story of Brixton ; therefore , we do not know the truth . |
| 11 | He agrees with the ‘ more probable opinion … [ that ] this consciousness is annexed to , and the affection of one identical immaterial substance ’ , but , expressing his general scepticism about the extent of our knowledge , he says we really do not know the truth of the matter . |
| 12 | We simply do not have the sums of money being asked . ’ |
| 13 | We simply do not have the structures or the resources to give proper pastoral care to clergy wives . |
| 14 | We simply do not understand the origin of this hugely variable relation between injury and pain . |
| 15 | We simply do not know the answer to this question but brief mention of the complexity of a human individual 's environment may suffice at this point to indicate how elaborate the considerations will have to be . |
| 16 | We simply did not know the extent to which English people are taught to despise us . |