Example sentences of "we [modal v] not [verb] [pers pn] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the carpet has been in satisfactory use for some years , we should not expect it to be the actual cause of trouble . |
| 2 | It is what makes the difference between the phrase ( 30 ) , where the first-order relation is of course qualification , and the completeness of ( 31 ) : ( 30 ) lucky Gomez ( 31 ) Gomez is lucky Similarly , this is the difference which opposes ( 32 ) and ( 33 ) , where the relation assigned is equation rather than qualification : ( 32 ) the broker , a man in a grey suit ( 33 ) the broker was a man in a grey suit The notion of " completeness " may seem vague ; again , however , we should not expect it to be defined more closely for the very good reason that fundamental notions — and we take assignment together with equation and qualification , along with the ideas of entity and property , to be the bedrock of linguistic structure — do not allow themselves to be defined . |
| 3 | We would not leave it to the discretion of the doctors but , acting on the best medical advice , set down what drugs could be prescribed and those that could not . |
| 4 | Those of us who live in south-east London not three miles from King 's Cross know that if we were taking our children to meet a continental train , or if we were taking elderly parents or grandparents to meet the train , we would not take them to King 's Cross , because we could not park there or get them near the platforms . |
| 5 | We can not leave it to the of individual members , that would produce chaos and could leave to destructive manoeuvring . |
| 6 | If we decided to introduce a new category in the ‘ status ’ attribute , called coursework , having a ‘ unit-points ’ attached of 10 , we can not add it to the relation MODULE ( Figure 3.25(b) ) because we have not decided which ‘ module ’ or modules to attach it to . |