Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [Wh adv] we " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of the symptoms of jet-lag relate to how we feel , but such an explanation does not explain why we should feel below par , and seems less acceptable when one would expect the mind to be concentrated on enjoying oneself on holiday or performing at one 's peak on business or at athletics , for instance . |
| 2 | But as it stands , this declaration does not explain why we should accept these criteria , nor why Lenin 's proposal is anything other than arbitrary . |
| 3 | Even if we were to accept that no legislator should vote for the compromise , this would not explain why we should reject the compromise as an out-come . |
| 4 | Seeing the Houses of Parliament , or even a debate in the Chamber , does not explain how we are governed . |
| 5 | Chemists will have to keep as narrow a watch on these minor elements as our astronomers do on the minor planets , or we shall not know where we are ’ . |
| 6 | If miracles were always taking place , there would be no order in the universe , and without the regularity of nature we should not know where we were . |
| 7 | The lords in parliament , and in the courthouse and the castle , they do not know how we live — they know nothing about us , except that we will die for them , to protect their forts in India and in Scotland ’ — his voice sharpened suddenly , his arm swung round and pointed north and a gust of response rose out of the crowd — ‘ we have always been good at that , their demands can never be satisfied , regiments for the colonies , indentured servants and labourers for the plantations , they have scoured Scotland like a killing wind and the men have been whirled away in the blast of it . |
| 8 | I do not know how we can make that judgment until we have seen the texture of the decision that we are being asked to make . |
| 9 | ‘ I can not understand why we were not informed . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Many of our customers could not understand why we might have only one style of nightdress or long-sleeved blouse , but it was because Laura was trying to evolve the most perfect example of that particular item and believed it was more important to have one good example of each than several skirts and dresses , ’ Moira explains . |
| 11 | I do not understand why we should be dealing with local government finance in Scotland in a Bill that covers the United Kingdom . |
| 12 | I can not understand why we were issued with a single piece of plastic in the first place , unless it was to save you money , since there was certainly no reduction for us . |
| 13 | ( At a meeting I attended recently about Salman Rushdie 's The Satanic Verses someone said , ‘ You do not understand how we have been insulted ; it is as though someone had raped my daughter . ’ |
| 14 | After a short while the new way of moving begins to feel less strange and sometimes we can not understand how we could have moved so clumsily for so many years without realizing it . |
| 15 | I do not understand how we are supposed to have a system which deals best with the most difficult parts of the Community but which makes matters worse in Scotland and Wales , but that is what the scheme does . |
| 16 | An adviser said : ‘ We do not see why we should allow foreign lotteries to take the money when it can be used for the benefit of Britain . ’ |
| 17 | We do not see why we should pay the environmental price for manifest improvements for the people of north-west England . |
| 18 | In nineteen eighty nine , Mrs Margaret Thatcher said , I do not see why we should pay for the education of conflict . |
| 19 | He did not see how we could possibly do so under modern conditions . ' |
| 20 | As we have no continuous contemporary account of the persecution of Antiochus IV and of the Maccabean reaction , I do not see how we can decide whether any Psalm may be labelled as Maccabean . |
| 21 | I do not see how we can separate principle from practice , policy from implementation . |
| 22 | I du n no what role Wilko has in this , but I can not see how we need money . |
| 23 | I do not have a copy of the previous Readyguide to hand and can not remember how we introduced this . |
| 24 | The trouble with this formulation is that it does not suggest how we can be sure as to just what is the constitutional set-up , and this is a particular problem once we recognise that the power of particular institutions is subject to change and that there are disputes as to what are ( and should be ) the fundamental practices and rules . |
| 25 | Sick and tired of stopping and starting , of going up banks only to go down them again , of being whacked in the face by the branches of trees that the dogs ran under , and of not knowing where we were going or why . |
| 26 | In the mists of time I can not recall why we started so late . |
| 27 | ‘ Well , it seems to be the vagrants ’ code not to say where we come from or whither we are bound … ’ |
| 28 | I can not imagine why we chose this post-prandial pleasure , except that it was the only place available as a change from the B.P. cafeteria . |
| 29 | Astronomers in Tokyo took a picture but reported nothing visible , although they now say there was a bright object and ‘ we can not imagine how we missed it ’ . |
| 30 | But this does n't explain why we should think it is the sort that is invoked in an argument from analogy . |