Example sentences of "we [adv] [vb base] not [vb infin] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and they want two extra extensions you see in a certain area , we obviously do n't know that |
| 2 | Well , even if I were qualified , I would be very , very sceptical , because I think we just do n't know enough about that yet . |
| 3 | We just do n't know those . |
| 4 | ‘ We just do n't have that kind of liturgy , ’ is the excuse that is often heard . |
| 5 | ‘ We just do n't have enough food to go round , ’ says Phoebe . |
| 6 | One of our major industrial problems is that we usually do not ask enough of our people . |
| 7 | But we deliberately do n't have much food in the fridge — that way , we keep temptation at bay ! ’ |
| 8 | But we still do n't know much about the man himself apart from his age ( 59 ) , and that he went to Shrewsbury School at the same time as Michael Heseltine . |
| 9 | ‘ We now have a very healthy nationwide membership that 's growing all the time , but I 'm afraid we still do n't have many members from Newquay , supposedly the country 's surf capital . |
| 10 | ‘ We still do n't see any sign of an upturn at all , ’ said a Peugeot executive . |
| 11 | Indeed , people begin to talk about under-developed Britain , or under-developing Britain , so that we now do n't see this sharp division between British problems as a developed country , and developing countries ' problems in Zambia , or Chile , or wherever , or India . |
| 12 | We have some facilities , but they 're not extensive and we often do n't have enough room . |
| 13 | We talk a lot about those thermal plumes but we really do n't know much about them . |
| 14 | Now obviously you can translate the idea of something being a preventative about illness or sickness , but it 's very difficult to suggest in idiomatic modern English that roses can be a protection against evils , because you really , we really do n't have that kind of concept , normally now , although there are many uses of erm , groups of people who might retain such a concept , and if something like that arises , you obviously ca n't make it idiomatic , because there 's just no way it 's going to work idiomatically in English . |
| 15 | We 've done a review of the service , we did a review of field centres , we really do not accept that one area , no matter how worthwhile and I 've talked to you |
| 16 | We simply do not have any clear conception of what form a transition from capitalism to socialism would take , above all because there is no convincing historical experience of such a transition . |
| 17 | ‘ We simply do not have enough money . ’ |
| 18 | We simply do not have enough evidence yet to back up the claim that ‘ people are almost certainly ill , dead , or dying because of these sloppy waste disposal activities ’ ( Openshaw et al. 1989 : 12 ) . |
| 19 | In accounting , we simply do not know enough to be able to measure this . |
| 20 | One honest booklet on food and health explains , ‘ The main reason why there are conflicting views about the effect of food on health is that we simply do n't know all the answers yet . |
| 21 | The more detailed and precise analyses on which these conclusions are based are taken from the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys ' 1976 Family Formation Survey ( Dunnell , 1979 ) , the latest available major national survey on this topic which includes detailed housing and fertility histories , but we simply do n't have more up-to-date evidence on which to make judgements . |
| 22 | We simply do n't have enough officers . |
| 23 | But we surely do not know these on the basis of experience . |
| 24 | We surely do n't want any more Tories in |
| 25 | Oh we definitely do n't want that cos all the money will go |
| 26 | And we definitely do n't want that one , do we ? |
| 27 | We certainly do n't want any more of that fuckin' lot , ’ he continued . |
| 28 | ‘ Although we both live at home , we actually do n't see much of each other during the week . |
| 29 | Now in Oxford erm we actually do n't have any land like that , and the problem was that , even if we had self-build houses on the land which is available at the moment , on which we want to build council houses but we have n't got the money to build council houses , if we were to allow self- build to go ahead on those sites because of the value of the land then the sorts of people who would actually be able to afford them would not be people on low incomes , or even sort of low to medium incomes , they would actually be people who were fairly well off and therefore not the people that we would want to be directing our resources at . |
| 30 | We therefore do not think that formal procedures for the identification of money laundering transactions are necessary . ’ |