Example sentences of "we simply [verb] not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Occasionally we hear of staff abuse and there is outrage , but more often than not we simply do not think of what it means to be old or shut away . |
| 2 | Writing or speaking tasks which do not clearly specify the receiver make even native-speaking students tongue-tied , and not surprisingly , for we simply do not talk or write into vacuums . |
| 3 | It also challenges my attitude to the more superficially respectable , whom we simply do not want to get on with , and strive earnestly to keep at arm 's length . |
| 4 | If we choose not to attend to the higher-level activity during cycling we simply do not notice our surroundings and may take an incorrect route . |
| 5 | ‘ We simply do not have enough money . ’ |
| 6 | We simply do not have enough evidence yet to back up the claim that ‘ people are almost certainly ill , dead , or dying because of these sloppy waste disposal activities ’ ( Openshaw et al. 1989 : 12 ) . |
| 7 | We simply do not have the sums of money being asked . ’ |
| 8 | We simply do not have any clear conception of what form a transition from capitalism to socialism would take , above all because there is no convincing historical experience of such a transition . |
| 9 | We simply do not have the structures or the resources to give proper pastoral care to clergy wives . |
| 10 | We simply do not understand the origin of this hugely variable relation between injury and pain . |
| 11 | We simply do not know the answer to this question but brief mention of the complexity of a human individual 's environment may suffice at this point to indicate how elaborate the considerations will have to be . |
| 12 | Again , we simply do not know . |
| 13 | The stark fact is that , as with the dinosaurs , we simply do not know what Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon people actually looked like . |
| 14 | It has been classed as an R Coronæ star , but it is certainly atypical , and it is wiser to admit that at present we simply do not know . |
| 15 | So far as the theological attributes accorded Jesus by Christian tradition are concerned , we simply do not know . |
| 16 | We simply do not know how to predict many of the outcomes of our actions … |
| 17 | We simply do not know how it fits in to the system of sociolinguistic variation and stratification in the city as a whole . |
| 18 | In accounting , we simply do not know enough to be able to measure this . |
| 19 | We simply do not know . |
| 20 | At this distance in time we simply do not know in detail how the clerks did their jobs , for there were no manuals of office procedure , and the functional tasks gradually evolved so that they bore little resemblance to their forebears . |
| 21 | ‘ We simply did not play rugby at Strasbourg , ’ explained Dubroca . |
| 22 | We simply did not know the extent to which English people are taught to despise us . |