Example sentences of "we [verb] not [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If we did not feel 100 per cent positive about our ability to fly the plane safely , we would not put it in the air . ’ |
| 2 | We did not achieve that , but the Regional Council has undertaken to carry the full costs itself . |
| 3 | Also it is disappointing that despite these improvements in performance we still do not understand properly the physics of thermal insulation and we did not expect that increased density ( up to the limit when particle collisions take over ) would have quite the favourable effect that we have found in many machines . |
| 4 | To our surprise , we did not observe any influence of age , sex , and body mass index upon the success rate and the recurrence rate ; even the initial number of stones apparently did not influence the recurrence rate , which is in contradiction with the postdissolution experience where the recurrence was higher in patients with multiple stones than with solitary stones . |
| 5 | Neither of us thought it was really possible , though we did not admit that to anybody other than ourselves . ’ |
| 6 | Unfortunately we did not make this clear and we would like to apologise for any embarrassment caused . |
| 7 | ‘ Looking back , I 'm glad we did not make any records because we were rubbish . |
| 8 | It would be unjust if we did not mention other specialists and their particular techniques . |
| 9 | We did not identify any of the firms below the top 20 which had multiple registrations . |
| 10 | When we sold locomotive 4277 we did not salvage any spared from it . |
| 11 | ‘ Although we did not measure this in our study , I can say from other work the average German sees his doctor 13 times a year , the average Swiss sees his doctor 7.5 times a year and the average Briton 3.5 times . ’ |
| 12 | It is possible that the PCR signal in testis was due to blood contamination , however we did not detect Oct-11 expression in well-vascularised tissues such as kidney and liver . |
| 13 | We did not detect any RFLPs for PGA in Japanese populations ( Fig. 1 ) . |
| 14 | In contrast , four EcoRI restriction fragments ( 17.8 , 17.2 , 13.5 , and 3.9 kb ) were observed in the present study , and we did not detect any RFLPs for PGA in Japanese populations by EcoRI digestion . |
| 15 | In contrast , we did not detect significant amounts ( over mock transfected control samples ) of activity in conditioned medium from the GGFHFB1 transfection . |
| 16 | We did not discard stained dialysates . |
| 17 | We did not study anal basal pressure , which is commonly believed to play a significant part in preserving faecal continence for liquids . |
| 18 | Although we did not study any patients with severe symptoms , our findings seem to be clinically relevant . |
| 19 | But we did not create much poetry : we held each other tenderly , and he comforted me with kisses . |
| 20 | We were , however , unable to provide this important service — either because we did not hold appropriate information in an accessible form or , if it was accessible , we did not have sufficient resources to extract it as required . |
| 21 | ‘ We feel that if we did not pursue this second transplant it would be like , to put it bluntly , pulling the plug on her . |
| 22 | More sophisticated and complex computer models of the heroin ‘ epidemic ’ can be constructed to produce precise estimates for the future , but given the many untestable assumptions of ‘ epidemic ’ models ( particularly those based only on figures for known users during a relatively short time period , as in the present case ) , we did not attempt such an exercise . |
| 23 | We did not attempt any better characterisation of this symptom because this may be difficult in patients with incontinence . |
| 24 | ‘ We had plenty of the ball but we did not look as if we could do anything from our set plays and we did not look likely to score from them . ’ |
| 25 | By performing blind semiquantitive IgG-cell density scoring , however , we did not notice any difference between affected and healthy twins ( data not shown ) . |
| 26 | We did not object this without evidence of reasons for objection and we 've been in disc discussion with the erm American miners . |
| 27 | Note that we did not test this particular part of the utilities . |
| 28 | They came with a boat , and did all their shopping in Tobermory , so we did not see much of them at all . ’ |
| 29 | We believed that the best practice reflects a consensus rather than such extreme positions , and we did not see this as some timid compromise . |
| 30 | Although cholecystitis stopped in the three months follow up in that case , we did not consider this technique for our patient because of her history of fistulas . |