Example sentences of "we [adv] [verb] not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We must have often seemed to deny them the obedience and ‘ proper respect ’ demanded by the institution , for we obviously did not emulate their style and in effect were a vision of impurity existing right inside the body of the organization . |
| 2 | James Baker , the secretary of state , told Congress recently that his review of Middle East policy convinced him long before the invasion of Kuwait that the ‘ old view that we somehow did not want the Soviets involved is a mistake ’ . |
| 3 | We just do not feel that it is appropriate that this whole area should now be run from London . |
| 4 | One thing that we did was find that there were molecules much , much bigger than was expected in the sense that there were many , many more carbon atoms involved than had previously been thought possible , and even now we just do not understand the processes whereby they are formed . |
| 5 | We just do not have the information to go on . ’ |
| 6 | As the great British biologist/mathematician J.B.S. Haldane commented , human beings would be hard pressed , however long natural selection acted upon them , to sprout the wings of an angel ; we just do not have the genes that would even begin to provide the appropriate structures , and past selection has never acted to provide us with these structures . |
| 7 | May , 1982 , ‘ The Argentinian air force has the latest attack aircraft and missiles , which we just do not have . |
| 8 | We just do not know the natures we are supposed to know , or how various properties follow from them . |
| 9 | In truth , however , we just do not know whether this is impossible . |
| 10 | ‘ We just do not know whether economic wind generators , still less economic wave-power and geothermal power , is going to be developed , ’ he said . |
| 11 | Why he allows those things we just do not know . |
| 12 | It might have been a cry for help — we just do not know . ’ |
| 13 | We just do not know . |
| 14 | ‘ On a couple of occasions we just did not get the bounce of the ball . |
| 15 | Contrary to reports , a spokesman for Sun Microsystems Inc said the company 's chief financial officer did not comment on the outlook for the quarter — ‘ We generally do not comment on the Street or analysts ’ earnings expectations , ’ he said . |
| 16 | So , because in this Festival we will be reaching people we normally do not reach as a group , for instance we 're having two pop concerts , the Rory Bremner thing , we 're going to be reaching people we do n't normally see on our D I Y. |
| 17 | It is to say that one person 's view is as good as another 's , which we patently do not accept when it comes to many aspects of our daily lives . |
| 18 | For example , it could be argued that ‘ photograph ’ may be divided into two independent words , ‘ photo ’ and ‘ graph ’ ; yet we usually do not regard it as a compound , but as an affix word . |
| 19 | On Tuesdays we may have a school football match but we usually do not have one . |
| 20 | One of our major industrial problems is that we usually do not ask enough of our people . |
| 21 | The year began with cold clammy fogs , and although some industry had come to a standstill because of workers called to the colours , and factories bombed by the enemy , we still did not have the Clean Air Act , and there was still quite a lot of smoke from domestic fires , and from the slack coal burnt by factories making munitions . |
| 22 | After our return from France we felt that we still did not have the complete story of that operation , and so we went to the Public Records Office at Kew to look up the records of 22 Squadron over that period . |
| 23 | IT COMES AS A SHOCK to some people to learn that we still do not have definite answers to many of the most obvious questions about animals . |
| 24 | Yet as Brown ( 1979 ) points out we still do not have coherent model of the neural bases of language . |
| 25 | As a final thought , my enjoyment of the longer essays made me regret that we still do not have an Oxford Companion to the Earth Sciences . |
| 26 | With the features introduced so far , we still do not have complete distinctiveness for all vowels : and , for example , are identical in feature specification so far , as are and , and , and . |
| 27 | We still do not have a proper address for Nanking , but I 'll try to sent it to you soon , as I understand a comrade from Nanking is coming to see us here to make arrangements for our visit there . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Quite unexpectedly , we found that there was another type of ganglion cell which we called the on-type directionally selective because , when plotting their receptive fields with a stationary spot , they only responded at onset , unlike the other type I have just illustrated which responded at both onset and offset ; we still do not understand the reason for this , but it led us to discover other differences . |
| 30 | ONE IN 50 Britons suffers from sugar diabetes and , despite 100 years of scientific study , we still do not know how it is caused . |