Example sentences of "that we [verb] [not/n't] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 With all the uncertainty and anxiety in our industry at the moment , it 's good to see that we 've not forgotten the needs of African farmers who anxieties are often far more acute than our own .
2 ‘ I know , in spite of the fact that we agreed not to discuss it , it was all because of what had happened in the past , was n't it ? ’
3 ‘ It much more concerned us , ’ writes Baxter , ‘ to be sure that we deserved not suffering , than that we be delivered from it . ’
4 I would agree with you that if the if we have gone along and said to people , well er yo , we 've got alternative accommodation for you and they have n't wanted to go then , well I 'm sure that we hope not to give them that er er , alternative accommodation er , and it 's not in our interest at all to er , keep er , places empty , and further more we have n't really got er enough er , alternative places to put er , these er tenants in so I 'm that it 's as the result of the sort of dwellings that er we 've er we now find ourselves with as a result of the er initial buildings in the first place .
5 The reason is , I think , that madness has something to say to us that we prefer not to hear .
6 Then , confident that we had n't missed many , we set course for the larger island of Whalsay .
7 ‘ When we split up I was really pissed off that we had n't achieved a lot of things we could have done , and that mood was coming through in the last records because it was depressing .
8 I think they were playing on the , the sheet I 'd sent back does n't say that we had n't had any official conformations , still did n't , although we had , had it on the telephone we had n't had anything written .
9 an area that we had n't attempted before .
10 Because prior to that we had n't sold fish as such .
11 Oh they had I must tell you now that at the time that we had n't got a car at all , on the occasion of a royal visit , or some very important action being taken , my Chief Constable used to hire a chauffeur driven car from Mr of Lane in Ipswich .
12 No er the most annoying thing about last night was when , when Martin was actually reviewing erm some of the topics that we had n't got right erm and Martin was prompting us with questions and we answered them !
13 With this drizzly weather we were stuck in Porto , and were glad that we had n't tried to cycle into town as the taxi sped through steep cobbled streets .
14 And regretted that we had n't come before .
15 I went through these areas that I wanted to work in and I argued with Jeremy that we had n't allowed for ‘ things visual ’ , that we had a visual medium , that Britain was profoundly under-educated visually , so that we should actually use television for visual education and he fell for this .
16 My mother and I , that morning were to travel to Heathrow Airport to fly to Australia to see family and friends that we had not seen for over five years .
17 We explained that we had not realized their boat was part of the Coast Guard and that we had not heard them aright in their orders to stop .
18 Second , these principles should then lead us on a successful search for phenomena that we had not observed previously .
19 I was glad that we had not troubled him personally , though we confessed that we should like to have set foot in the flat .
20 Curiously , when you ask them how they would react to deletion of the procedure of inviting criticism of their draft reports from the regulations , their response is along the lines of : ‘ If we were not required to do it we would probably carry out a similar course of action unofficially in order to ensure that we had not missed an important point . ’
21 We explained that we had not realized their boat was part of the Coast Guard and that we had not heard them aright in their orders to stop .
22 To many in the West he had seemed an utterly ruthless and even deranged enemy , a terrifying symbol of an anger and hatred that we had not expected could not understand and had no hope of controlling .
23 My watch alarm woke us to a finger cold pre-dawn , though I remained only half awake as we trudged through knee-deep snow to the bottom of the Supercouloir , both of us cursing that we had not brought our skis .
24 My right hon. Friend said that we had inflation licked in a way that we had not had it licked for years .
25 Our problem was that we had not learned enough .
26 She recommended that a meeting with Social Services would be helpful to alert them to the ‘ dynamics ’ of this family and to advise them that ‘ as professionals we were anxious that we had not managed to engage and intervene within the family and explore deficits in the parenting role ’ .
27 But what persuades me that we have not heard the last of Havel the writer is that he combines a total commitment to social freedom and individual responsibility with an extraordinary ironic detachment .
28 If so , why is that we have not heard anything from all those other civilizations out there ?
29 The issue of access is just one of the barriers that we have not tackled as positively as we would have wished .
30 The issue is far more complicated and it is only fair to note that we have not reached a stage of knowledge when we can easily say what explains the status of women among the different peoples of the world .
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