Example sentences of "we not [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , can we not just toss some thoughts |
| 2 | Why did we not just stop and camp ? |
| 3 | Could we not just put |
| 4 | Well Terry confirmed that to me yesterday cos I asked the question could we not just run it |
| 5 | could we not just circulate them ? |
| 6 | But here also we can not predict how the couplet will proceed ; not only do we not yet know the grammatical or syntactic pattern of the next line , or its lexical contents , but , more importantly , we do not know what kind of a relationship what we have read will bear to what we have yet to read . |
| 7 | May we not reasonably suppose that it had migrated from the central regions of this vast continent , which has yet much in store for future discovery ? |
| 8 | Instead of agonising over an indefinable concept of pain , why do we not simply study the individual 's efforts to stabilise its internal environment and then aid it or , at least , not intrude on those efforts without good reason ? |
| 9 | Why then can we not simply say that topless ( a ) and topless ( b ) are different ( although perhaps related ) lexemes ? |
| 10 | Ought we not rather to think in terms of partially intersecting views of context ? |
| 11 | Have we not already witnessed on the television his Scargill-type debate on the floor of the House during MPs ' Question Time ? |
| 12 | When we handle a young horse correctly , we not only caress it , hold it , and stroke it , and pick up its feet ; but we teach it to lead . |
| 13 | However , due to insufficient financing , we not only had to ask for benefits , but also can not take on ourselves new obligations , as was done by the rest of the participants in the protocol . " |
| 14 | This sense of self is quite robust : when we wake up , we not only remember what we know , but also who we are . |
| 15 | We went on to the target , all the same , and we not only bombed , but obtained a photograph of the aiming point at the moment of bombing . |
| 16 | They are an important part of our twin-track approach so that we not only come down hard on offenders who commit the crime of taking vehicles , but we do all we can to prevent youngsters from offending . |
| 17 | It 's no good blaming the chef if our own broth tastes disgusting , or is simply bland and boring — because we not only chose the recipe , but stirred in each ingredient with our own hands ! |
| 18 | From the layout of our stores to the construction of our packaging , we not only care about the environment , we are also concerned for the well-being of the public . |
| 19 | We not only pay an entrance fee to access these facilities , we also pay a community charge for local amenities . |
| 20 | True independence and self-determination come from recognising that we not only have responsibility for ourselves , but also obligations to others . |
| 21 | From our point of view , empathy is the most valuable form of communication with the horse , for we not only have insight into how the horse feels , but we intuitively understand the horse 's other forms of communication , like verbal messages and body language . |
| 22 | Again , throwing by hand , throwing stick or catapult , is only as accurate as our individual capabilities and means that we not only have to throw accurately , but also cast accurately — and we must do this in both instances every time we retrieve for another cast . |
| 23 | One can see the publishers emerging from that smoke-filled room , slapping each other on the back : ‘ Baby , we not only have a trilogy here , we have a thesaurus . ’ |
| 24 | But when we come to the interpersonal function , we not only have to account for the literary work itself as a discourse between author and reader , but we have to reckon with the phenomenon of " embedded discourse " : the occurrence of discourse within discourse , as when the author reports dialogue between fictional characters . |
| 25 | We not only have different curricula , but also different teaching approaches . |
| 26 | I noticed that this did not feature in their party political broadcast , wrongly entitled ’ Made in Britain ’ and alleging that virtually nothing was made in Britain , when we not only have the successes mentioned by my hon. Friend the Member for Bury , South ( Mr. Sumberg ) in his constituency but export far more television sets than we import and make the best hi-fi in the world , and when one in ten personal computers sold in the world are made in this country — in Scotland . |
| 27 | We not only have the male , patriarchal white apartheid system on our necks , we also have the white woman on our necks . |
| 28 | To these people , we not only have to offer an attractive package but to be more visible , especially during these troubled times . |
| 29 | Like the mouse in the poem , when we consume more than our fair share of the earth 's resources , we not only force our brothers and sisters in other countries to go without , but we damage ourselves as well . |
| 30 | In normal or right sexuality , argues Scruton , we not only give recognition to the other 's person in and through our desire tor him or her , we also accord them accountability and care in the process . |