Example sentences of "could we [not/n't] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Could we not travel safely on the road now ? ’ she asked cautiously , as they forded yet another stream . |
| 2 | ‘ Could we not open a window ? ’ |
| 3 | Could we not argue that the plant or animal responds to the rhythms in its environment anyway ? |
| 4 | ( That , after all , is what is meant by the external cause of a daily rhythm. ) for example , could we not argue that the plant could move its leaves in response to the sun ; the shore-dwelling creature leave its burrow in the mud when the tide recedes ; or the diurnal or nocturnal animal respond to sunrise and sunset ? |
| 5 | Well , could we not import ? |
| 6 | I do n't know if we ought to put a timetable on that , on what 's going on , on this erm , eco-management erm , business , but also , I was wondering , could we not ask for a report to the March or April meeting of this committee , on what actions we could take to make progress on the recommendations of the district auditor in paragraph forty-four . |
| 7 | I have just one quibble : could we not consider naming the ships HMS Stewart , Lang and Forsyth in memory of three Ministers who , notwithstanding that good news , are likely not to be in office much longer ? |
| 8 | Over these erm past couple of weeks we 've been looking at er some of the questions in the New Testament , we thought a couple of weeks back of the question that Jesus asked his disciples , do you think I 'm able to do this and then last week we looked at a question that the disciples put to Jesus , that time when they came down from the mountain and they found the re , three of them came down with Jesus from the mountain of transfiguration and they found the other disciples with a man who and a , whose son was demon possessed and er they had been unable to help him and the man or brings his son to Jesus and Jesus delivers him and afterwards the disciples who had been so helpless put the question to Jesus , why could we not cast out this demon and this morning I 'd like us to look at another question , we 've got another one today and one God willing next week , er and the question is , is found in Luke chapter thirteen , let me just read a few verses , because of course it 's , it 's not just the questions , it 's the answers that are important as well in Luke chapter thirteen , gon na read from verse twenty two it says in Jesus was passing through from one city and village to another , teaching and proceeding on his way to Jerusalem now that gives us a clue in that , because Jesus only ever went to Jerusalem apart from when he was a boy , he only ever went to Jerusalem once and that , after since that time , and that was when he was crucified , so Jesus was now on his way to Jerusalem , it was the latter days , the latter weeks of the life of Jesus , he was making his way now to Jerusalem and someone said to him Lord are there just a few who are being saved and Jesus said to hi , to them , strive to enter by the narrow door for many I tell you will seek to enter and will not be able , once the head of the house gets up and shuts the door and you begin to stand outside and knock on the door saying Lord open to us , then he will answer and say to you I do not know where you are from , then you will begin to say we ate and drank in your presence and you taught in our streets , and he will say I tell you I do not know where you are from , depart from me all you evil doers , there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth there , when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the profits in the kingdom of God , but yourselves being cast out and they will come from East and West and from North and South and will recline at the table in the Kingdom of God , and behold some ar some are last who will be first and some are first who will be last , so it 's just that question then , let's remind ourselves that is put to Jesus Lord are there just a few who are being saved |
| 9 | yeah , well let me just read you two or three verses from Exodus , chapter forty , this is what it says then the cloud covered the tent of meeting and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle and Moses was not able to enter the tent of meeting because the cloud had settled on it and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle and throughout all their journeys whenever the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle the sons of Israel would set out , but if the cloud was not taken up then they did not set out until the day that it was taken up , for throughout all their journeys the cloud of the Lord was on the tabernacle by day and there was fire in it by night , in the sight of all the house in Israel and if you were to turn over to kings you 've got a , you 've got a similar thing there with the dedication of the temple and as Be Ben was saying the power really it 's the it 's the presence of God , the shine , the glory , that cloud of , and so what , what , what catches the Lord Jesus up is really the glory of God here he is , the , the riseness , the glorified Christ being called up into heaven in the , in the glory , what he 's been glorified , so he withdraws his physical , physical presence from one place here on earth to present there on the throne and yet by the holy spirit to be every where now Jesus then , he did n't cease to be truly man at either his resurrection or at his ascension , he stays man , God , the God man all the way through and it 's still true today he is the God man today and that 's important for you and me , think of the very worse experience that you have ever had in your life , think of the very worse experience that could happen to you , with the exception of you know that of , of say total failure of some awful sin , the worse thing , maybe a loss of someone dear to you , someone very close to you , er , er , a bereavement , the most awful experience you have had well he has gone through , he has known that experience , he has , has tempted in all points like as we are he knows our frame , he remembers were dust and he has been there and it is a man who has experienced those same experiences that you and I experience day by day , year after year , it is a man who has gone that , who has walked that path , who is in heaven interceding and praying for us , we 'll stop there cos time has gone erm we 'll stop there , we wo n't go on otherwise I 'll get into trouble During this past month some of the questions in the New Testament , the first one we looked at you remember was that question that Jesus asked of his disciples , do you believe that I am able to do this , then we looked at a question which the disciples asked of Jesus , why could we not cast it out last week we looked at another question , are only a few people going to be saved and this morning I 'd like us it 's the final one of these questions not that there are n't other questions in the New Testament and scores , scores of others but were just looking at four er throughout this month , I 'd like us to look this morning for one at , for a few minutes , at one that Jesus asked of a man who confronted him , I 'd like to read a few verses from Luke chapter eighteen , Luke chapter eighteen I 'm gon na read from verse thirty five , it 's the well known account of blind Bartimaeus , Luke chapter eighteen and verse thirty five and he came about that as Jesus was approaching Jericho a certain blind man was sitting by the road begging , now hearing a multitude going by he began to inquire |
| 10 | Could we not call it sort of discussions and to try and put our point of view , our , our difficulties that we 're in , rather than erm , er , er , the narrower thing ? |
| 11 | ‘ Could we not take some part in your work ? ’ |
| 12 | Could we not find out some means ? |
| 13 | Could we not have all guessed that Lt Col Custer ( he gave himself the rank of general ) came 34th out of the class of 34 at West Point . |
| 14 | Instead of a lobby warming against gunshots , could we not have a more useful piece of theatre legislation , making audience participation a violation of union rules ? |
| 15 | We could of , we , could we not have had a statement that er er er erm a certificate of conformity could be issued or will be issued ? |
| 16 | Could we not have er I think procedure is could we not have the er er resolution for the at first and now that a ministry is in motion ? |
| 17 | Could we not have er I think procedure is could we not have the er er resolution for the at first and now that a ministry is in motion ? |
| 18 | Could we not look forward to an era where our syllabuses for instruction in schools were as carefully drafted , as well produced and as widely read and discussed as our development plans for education ? |
| 19 | Could we not look at these company figures ? |
| 20 | That being so , suppose we have another member of staff who is equally as effective as a teacher but who does not work up the lecture notes in the same way : could we not say that his or her teaching is integrated with research to the same degree ? |
| 21 | Could we not agree today to ask the appropriate committee , whether it be Policy and Resources , the Resources Management of Regional Council , that when they 're examining this question of the carry forwards , that they themselves review the impact that this will have on , on the benefits of five B for this County ? |