Example sentences of "we [modal v] not [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We must not now add to the burden facing the medical staff and the Bland family by taking part in emotional or noisy demonstrations ’ . |
| 2 | or saying we could n't really take to their child , |
| 3 | We could n't quite run to a good boarding-school , so we chose Burleigh . ’ |
| 4 | I suppose my point is that if things are to get better ( or should I say keep getting better ) then we ca n't really look to the likes of Mel to come back . |
| 5 | And we have no relatives there , so we can not even travel to West Germany to see uncles and aunts . |
| 6 | New methods will come , no doubt , with the fruition of that research which the Home Secretary has urged and supported ; but we can not even claim to be using existing methods , when 7,550 prisoners are sleeping tonight three in a cell , and when policies which , but for the war , would have been on the statute book in 1939 , and have already been on the statute book for half a generation , have hardly begun to be carried into effect for lack of premises . |
| 7 | We can not simply appeal to ‘ reality ’ and ‘ truth , as Miller and Swift do ; we can not root out prejudice by fiat nor make sexism disappear just by exposing it ; we have even less power to control what people say or mean than the prescriptivist defenders of sexist convention . |
| 8 | We can not rightly attribute to the Spirit any teaching which does not shed light on Jesus , or any religious experience which is not congruous with the life of Jesus . |
| 9 | We can not therefore appeal to a widely accepted body of theory , and much of the discussion is qualitative in nature . |