Example sentences of "[noun pl] we [verb] not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unlike plants and animals we do not have to go to bed with the sun or to get up at each high tide ; our man-made environment is based on a 24-hour solar day of course , but it need not be timed to coincide with sunrise or sunset . |
| 2 | In our list of authors we did not include Enid Blyton or Captain W. E. Johns , author of the Biggles stories . |
| 3 | proper returns adequate for our audit have been received from all branches we did not visit ; |
| 4 | As we explained in chapter 1 , for most variables we do not have such direct observations and can not therefore carry out the tests . |
| 5 | There were other voices we did not recognize . |
| 6 | At Carnival Cruise Lines we do not have any minimum age limits as we judge each person on his or her ability and personality . |
| 7 | Birds and beasts have senses we do not have . |
| 8 | But in embryonic wounds we do not see lamellipodia . |
| 9 | For some purposes we do not need to know which modes of vibration are responsible for which IR or Raman bands , but sometimes we must go further , and assign the bands in the spectrum to particular modes . |
| 10 | In a great number of cases we do not know how specialized particular occupations were , how many different jobs a single man might hold . |
| 11 | We did not look at the histological correlate of the inflammatory mediators as for ethical reasons we did not perform sigmoidoscopy and rectal biopsy . |
| 12 | Secondly , for historical reasons we did not hold records of National Insurance numbers on the payroll file ( and could not easily add them ) . |
| 13 | Goldney , for reasons we do not know , declined the offer of the Cherokee earth and it therefore fell to Cookworthy and Champion to perfect the porcelain known as ‘ Bristol China ’ . |
| 14 | The male does sometimes mate with one of the young female helpers but this , for reasons we do not understand , never seems to result in pregnancy . |
| 15 | Perhaps , for reasons we do not understand , the patterns of interconnections in the smell-brain are under a more versatile system of genetic control , and this allowed the rapid evolution of the neocortex , facilitating the neopallial explosion . |
| 16 | ‘ For purely practical reasons we do not permit debates in either House to be cited : it would add greatly to the time and expense involved in preparing cases involving the construction of a statute if counsel were expected to read all the debates in Hansard , and it would often be impracticable for counsel to get access to at least the older reports of debates in Select Committees of the House of Commons ; moreover , in a very large proportion of cases such a search , even if practicable , would throw no light on the question before the court . |
| 17 | As Johnson-Laird has pointed out we customarily understand and use words in context whose meanings we do not know in any exact sense : |
| 18 | The evening resumes in the bar have some merit in linking in the activities we do not see on film but had an embarrassing ‘ bar bore ’ quality . |
| 19 | ‘ At ordinary times we do not read novels at all , as you may imagine , but the right novel at the right moment can have a real spiritual value . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ When we hear such sounds we do not pay attention to things like pitch and timbre . |
| 21 | These may in turn be sub-divided ; goods possessed may comprise either the results of private purchase or goods allocated by the state , while goods not possessed tend to fall into two categories : first , those we encounter as material forms , in particular the built environment , the goods of our acquaintances or those in the high street shop , and secondly , goods we do not experience directly , but which appear to us through the media — for example in television , magazines and advertising . |
| 22 | It can require us to support legislation we believe would be inappropriate in the perfectly just and fair society and to recognize rights we do not believe people would have there . |
| 23 | Whether the ancient amphibians overcame those difficulties we do not know . |
| 24 | Unlike in other studies we did not find any perceptible effect due to sex . |
| 25 | Now we know differently , having opened our door after dark to persons we did not know or recognise . |
| 26 | This was followed subsequently by great interest in all the smells and scents of the roadside , even the occasional canine encounter — accompanied by the whole world of doggie communication : nose to nose , nose to tail , side by side , tail and body postures , ears up , ears down — their inward mental structure is quite clearly being expressed in a language and through sense perceptions and actions we do not share . |
| 27 | We cooked dinner , packed up things we did not need over the next two days and had a group meeting to discuss the itinerary for our journey home . |
| 28 | That was one of the things we did not know . |
| 29 | In a sense , it is the counterpart of our need for autonomy : while autonomy is the freedom to make things happen , security is the freedom from things we do not want to happen . |
| 30 | I can not say for sure that there is any risk to the carp 's health , but that is a classic case of playing around with things we do not understand ! |