Example sentences of "we [vb mod] [not/n't] [vb infin] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We may not expect consumer behaviour , right , to be the same at all prices and quantities basically but er , nevertheless , you will probably see more linear demand curves than nonlinear ones because they are somewhat simpler . |
| 2 | Er trading standards continue to be under pressure er we ought to agree on that er and we I I believe we may not have difficulty er in achieving the additional value of this type of almost on an annual basis if we are short of the trading standards . |
| 3 | yeah but er yeah there , there 's a gre there 's a great er it 's a great shame actually erm we may not have Jenny for very much longer , they may not renew her contract which will be a big shame . |
| 4 | Does he further agree that , at this critical time of ordering , building and commissioning that submarine fleet , we should not pay attention to the recommendations of the two main Opposition parties , whose opinion appears to vary , not merely from day to day , but from hour to hour ? |
| 5 | We should not ban Voltaire 's Candide , Tom Paine 's Age of Reason , Bertrand Russell 's Why I am not a Christian , Scorsese 's The Last Temptation of Christ , or Monty Python 's The Life of Brian . |
| 6 | Editor , — J R F Gladman makes the reasonable point , following my observations in West Cumbria , that we should not underestimate asthma in elderly people . |
| 7 | But there is no reason why we should not tell stories of English boys who leave the village and make good in the city — why rural drama should not be found and filmed among the mountains of Wales and moors of Yorkshire . |
| 8 | The new philosophy said that we should not make value judgements : you ca n't think in an Aristotelian way ; no value judgements , no good and bad . |
| 9 | Nor that we should not form opinions or make evaluations . |
| 10 | But it can be argued that we should not view rights in this way , and that when their use has adverse effects on third parties , rights should not be treated as signifying a moral entitlement in the right-holder to bring about those effects . |
| 11 | The ‘ meaning ’ of the symbols in any information technology is arbitrary , and there is no reason why we should not assign combinations , say triplets , from DNA 's 4-letter alphabet , to letters of our own 26-letter alphabet ( there would be room for all the upper and lower-case letters with 12 punctuation characters ) . |
| 12 | We should not grant recognition to the Baltic states or any other So Soviet Republics unless they guarantee human rights ? |
| 13 | Adam Smith 's famous dictum that we should not subsidise grape production in Scotland , does not extend to subsidising wine imports at the expense of the ‘ wine of the country ’ . |
| 14 | Given those characteristics we should not expect BBC and ITV viewers to be influenced in different ways . |
| 15 | The imagination must be fed ; we should not expect children to go on drawing from imagination or memory without directing his attention to the things he does and sees , and tries to imagine . |
| 16 | We should not ignore collectivism , however , because it is so often used by the state in Japan to mobilize the support of those who have not benefited as much from the economic miracle , or by company leaders to exhort yet more effort from employees . |
| 17 | The concern of civil libertarians , that we should not do things to or about old people which run counter to their wishes , is entirely legitimate . |
| 18 | ‘ We had a band chat and for ages we were saying we should not do merchandising at all , because it is a sign that you are a really big band and that you are trying to cash in . |
| 19 | We should not seek immortality in reproduction . |
| 20 | Ideally , we should not need others to point this out to us , but be alert to our own capabilities and ready to use them in another context . |
| 21 | And , besides , we should not bore Miss Russell with the business of the vignoble . |
| 22 | The Old Age religions teach that we should not have desires , that we should simply accept whatever happens as God 's will . |
| 23 | ‘ I simply meant that we should not have fish so unfailingly , on a regular day of the week , in future . ’ |
| 24 | I said at the time that it was rather important from the point of view of the economy that we should not have wage increases which we could not afford . |
| 25 | ‘ I see no reason why we should not have E-mail linking 80 per cent of Group computer users worldwide within 18 months . ’ |
| 26 | The lesson is that we should not judge people by their reputation , without knowing a great deal more about them . |
| 27 | We should not allow John Smith and his hitmen to take it from us . |
| 28 | Even the rules of social politeness , which suggest that we should not burden others with our problems , will lead us all to respond to enquiries after our health with an automatic ‘ Very well , thank you ’ when often we may be feeling poorly or even downright miserable . |
| 29 | However , we should not get conflict and defensive behaviour out of perspective . |
| 30 | While it is right , and of some urgency , to look at the global environment and to be involved in discussions regarding pollution of our oceans , the greenhouse effect , the destruction of rain forests in South America and so on , we should not lose sight of what is primarily the concern of the individual : that is , the local environment . |