Example sentences of "[be] [not/n't] think " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am not thinking primarily of the well-established learned journals , which have high editorial standards and a long queue of articles waiting to appear . |
| 2 | ‘ I am not thinking of a police scene-of-crime picture . |
| 3 | Obviously I am not thinking of ‘ answers ’ as something necessarily conceptual or purely verbal , as if a Christian answer was a string of words beginning ‘ Christianity says that … . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I am not thinking anything , ’ Miss Honey said . |
| 5 | When I say ‘ this war ’ , I am not thinking only of the current one , but of all our modern wars and our entire modern history from when we became free of the Turks in 1819 . |
| 6 | There is the dispositional fact that I believe my name is what it is , which is a fact about me when I am not thinking of my name . |
| 7 | ‘ I am not thinking here of the tabloid press , whose characteristics have been much debated recently , but more particularly of the quality press and the TV programmes which expect to be taken seriously . |
| 8 | I hope that I am not thought too patronising or authoritarian when I say that I do not believe that parents should leave children in unattended cars and they certainly should not leave the keys in the car as well . |
| 9 | One can hardly blame them but you can be sure that they are not thinking that those poor people in the audience must be feeling hungry — they simply want to increase their profits . |
| 10 | When we speak of ‘ culture ’ we are not thinking about high-brow music , or good table manners . |
| 11 | ‘ We are not thinking or talking about the past , ’ he insisted . |
| 12 | Hawkins said : ‘ I most sincerely hope that you are not thinking what I think you are , if you follow me . ’ |
| 13 | For example , musical and philosophical skill — as opposed to the external rewards of reaching the ‘ top ’ in a musical or academic career , a kind of achievement which , if given central importance in our lives , will yield no abiding satisfaction , beset as we will be by worry as to what others are or are not thinking of us — can only be developed by an individual in a propitious environment where many co-operate in working at them . |
| 14 | Remember that most people are probably far more concerned with themselves and are not thinking about you . |
| 15 | ‘ What do you think — perhaps you are not thinking as you should — you see — it 's permitted to be frank ? ’ |
| 16 | The way Batty was handled strikes me as a sign that the management are not thinking along winning the championship this year but are prepared to bide their time . |
| 17 | The impersonal imagery is essential if we are not to think of God as a person like ourselves . |
| 18 | Now to the Muses : I do n't call them to fortify my Walls against Wealth itself , but against Wealth in such a Shape as we had then described ; and you are not to think , that Poets , who love Ease and Pleasure , and the most gay Delights of Life , should hate the only Means of obtaining it |
| 19 | ‘ You are not to think of making do with a collation on Ash Wednesday ’ , he said to me . |
| 20 | PROPERTY stocks and high interest rates are not thought to be a good combination . |
| 21 | These views concern the fact that the singular particular things which we can point to and pick out with the words ‘ this ’ and ‘ that ’ , and to which we often give names , such as ‘ James ’ or ‘ John ’ , are not thought of as being merely particular . |
| 22 | Moreover , except in the context of a common market they are not thought to be of interest to outsiders . |
| 23 | It is here that it seems to me that there are basic problems which are not thought through , and moreover that moves are made which are deceptive , in that they give the impression that a solution has been found where in fact the main issue has not been tackled . |
| 24 | Eels are not thought to go down to the abyssal depths of the Atlantic where they could get such indications from the sea floor . |
| 25 | These estimates may be adjusted upwards , using judgement and experience , where they are not thought exactly to represent the total potential available market . |
| 26 | At the same time he will miss out on segments of the market which in mass production or distribution terms are not thought economic to supply . |
| 27 | Matters which are not thought fit for inclusion in the agreement itself ( perhaps to cover some short term matter affecting one partner alone ) can sometimes be accommodated by a side letter , though it must be signed by all partners to be binding on the firm . |
| 28 | A 23-year-old man was taken to York District Hospital but his injuries are not thought to be serious . |
| 29 | The two events are not thought to be connected . |
| 30 | It is women who are not thought to be assertive . |