Example sentences of "we [modal v] not [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet fellow members of a species can understand each other with the greatest of ease , while we may not even have the senses to perceive their communications to each other , let alone understand them . |
| 2 | we may not even have loved them . |
| 3 | We may not yet know what is safe , but we are identifying important criteria for assessment . |
| 4 | We may not actually continue escalating the physical side of our relationship , but each level of intimacy brings a more intense motivation to advance . |
| 5 | Well , we , we may not actually need to go to the P W L B for money , because of the , because of the grant , we may actually get a hundred percent grant aid for this , and if we get a hundred perce hundred percent grant aid , we wo n't need to . |
| 6 | We may not really know the frequency with which Rousseau heard it , but well before the Revolution it was heard only in extremis . |
| 7 | But if you can raise that profile which I talk about , the of the ethics of of your trade , your profession and become , in effect , a pressure group , a pressure group for the public good , while we may not always agree with you , and indeed we 're going to say that we do n't agree with you and you must n't be afraid of that but we would rather hear from you , you 're the men and women at the sharp end , I hesitate to say ‘ experts ’ because ‘ expert ’ is a , a rather over-used word but we 'd much rather hear from you , at the sharp end , than the part-time politicians who , by the very nature of , of their role , and however well-meaning they may be , they have other priorities . |
| 8 | As small children we may not always get the understanding we need from our parents . |
| 9 | I mean erm you know erm when I go to the London Group erm we all know that erm actually er there 's a kind of , there 's an inner feeling you know well we 've got the right computers , we , we 're the you know , we , we believe computing and we , we 're very sorry you know we 're erm we may not actively despise them , but we , we 're sorry that they have to bother with such an awful operating system and everything else . |
| 10 | Enlightenment demands that we should not simply engage in the practices that are part of these rational pursuits ( submitting to their different forms of ‘ groundedness ’ ) , but that we should maintain our own integrity . |
| 11 | We should not just go through the Lobbies — half the time I do so without knowing for what I am voting . |
| 12 | So Commander Blake we should not just offer a stick saying that we we are n't going to help you until we start dismantling your military programme , we should offer carrots too , do you agree ? |
| 13 | We should not just trust people to get on with the task of caring for vulnerable children . |
| 14 | Er and so think er not we should not just have a policy for the we should put some money towards it as well . |
| 15 | The Government Health Warning beneath the images has now become merely a product identification sign — without the " warning " we should not even begin to recognize what product was offered in the remarkable pictorial rebus above . |
| 16 | We should not however confuse the transaction with the eventual use of the raw material . |
| 17 | Of course we should not endlessly meddle and interfere with the electricity industry in Northern Ireland . |
| 18 | Embedded within discussions of human rights is the intention that we should not so organise our social institutions that they promote some people and inhibit others . |
| 19 | Just because it is convenient to single out some policies for special attention , and just because there are courses on social policy that require the study of a specific and limited range of public policies , we should not therefore fall into the trap of seeing these as the main government contributions to welfare , or the ‘ general good ’ . |
| 20 | Leading up on this as the members state at the E C , I believe we should not only have for the benefits of the European legislation to protect employees , but also to seek , form and strengthen links with the European union . |
| 21 | We should not only lose , against eight times our numbers , but we might well tempt the Forteviot garrison to come out and rescue us , and the fort would be taken . ’ |
| 22 | On Jan. 21 a Senate standing committee urged the government to make " full use of the opportunity provided by the US ban on weapons sales " , saying that " we should not only seek alternative sources but utilize all our capabilities to achieve self-reliance in defence production " . |
| 23 | We should not blindly make the easy moralistic assumption that whores are disgraceful and so are their customers , of course . |
| 24 | We should not really expect otherwise . |
| 25 | First , we should not necessarily measure different kinds of information media against one another as if there was a competition taking place to find the most powerful way of communicating with people . |
| 26 | As noted earlier , we should not perhaps take labels too seriously . |
| 27 | We should n't just think we 're not going to be here in two years time , it 's somebody else 's problem , they 'll take over our debts . |
| 28 | But although we ca n't comprehend these levels of improbability in our minds , we should n't just run away from them in terror . |
| 29 | At the same time I think others , or the points she raises , erm , you know are good points and I do n't think that we should just my personal feeling is that we should n't just shelve it . |
| 30 | Do I detect then that the general feeling is that we should n't even tamper with this . |