Example sentences of "[am/are] not [v-ing] that [pron] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Live the natural way : No , I am not suggesting that you return to some sort of Tarzan and Jane existence , simply that you try and reduce your dependence on those mechanical things which sometimes seem to threaten to take over our lives .
2 I am not suggesting that you take this model too seriously .
3 I am not suggesting that you throw extravagant dinner parties every night when I advocate entertaining .
4 I am not suggesting that he arrives at the meaning of Truth as the result of philosophical or metaphysical speculation in a vacuum .
5 I am not saying that there has not been considerable support for it , and he can report that to the House .
6 So all I 'm saying is , if we 're not achieving that we need to go back and look at the way in which we 're operating the fax service , have a chat with erm Phil 's people or Jackie 's peo see if there 's any differences that we can take advantage of .
7 ‘ You 're not suggesting that what happened to me this morning was attempted murder , are you ?
8 Surely you 're not suggesting that they had anything to do with his death ? ’
9 You 're not forgetting that I called you before that time myself , and you told me Bonanza had taken the girl away somewhere ? ’
10 So we 're not proposing that you turn off the mainframe on Friday and turn on your Unix or open systems machines with your database on it on Monday .
11 So we 're not proposing that you turn off the mainframe on Friday and turn on open systems on Monday .
12 you 're not feeling that you 've got lots of little isolated subjects and lots of little isolated topics and it 's all building up and it 's all a lot it is a lot ,
13 We 're not saying that you do n't like that .
14 I 'm not demanding that you succeed , only that you try .
15 What I 'd like to do is to help them to see that they do n't need to give up on the computer , that they can actually be the master of it , although of course I do n't I 'm not suggesting that they become programmers — that would be to abdicate their function in another way — but certainly they can understand it , and I think of course it keeps coming back to this issue over and over again , an issue about education .
16 I 'm not suggesting that we chain Peter to Caliban for eighteen hours a day .
17 So while I 'm not suggesting that you buy every gauge ( though that would be many a machine knitter 's idea of heaven , I guess ! ) , when working out what machine(s) you want for the yarns you want to knit most , look at the optimum yarn for each gauge .
18 I 'm not suggesting that you need to go quite this mad , but one , or perhaps two extra masts do make life so simple and easy .
19 I 'm not asking that it transfer its estate , I 'm asking that it should make a contribution because it will then show that we 're committed to this very important initiative .
20 ‘ I 'm not saying that we pretend it never happened .
21 Now I 'm not saying that we stand here and all we do is that because when you want to emphasise a point then sometimes a a single non-symmetrical a single hand gesture is more appropriate .
22 no , no I 'm not saying that we did , we did evolve
23 Yes I think that probably this had been er very wise in this er in so I 'm not saying that they 've helped us or anything but they 've kept the middle of the line and erm In the beginning when things were beginning to whatsit er the inspector sent two policemen down here and asked me would I ask the lads not to do any damage to property and all this , and that and said , Right there 's a lodge tonight and I shall ask them I shall tell them to do that .
24 I 'm not saying that nothing belongs any more — like those pictures , this . ’
25 I 'm not saying that she winds Daddy round her little finger , she does not .
26 I 'm not saying that it achieved er a great victory
27 " I 'm not saying that it started off to be one , but in my view it became fraudulent pretty Soon .
28 Yes I 'm not I 'm not saying that I do n't think it 's a an important consideration .
29 Well we were a better er service , they were a better ser I 'm not saying that I think so , I know they were a better service don does n't does n they 're not quite proof , there were in an tramcar Edinburgh Corporation tramcars were running , they were running at a , a , every year a profit .
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