Example sentences of "do not say that " in BNC.
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| 1 | we do not say that the Government has been defeated by the General Strike , for it was not directed against the Government . |
| 2 | Why should you choose , if you could , and I do not say that you could , to leave your children ? |
| 3 | I do not say that to mislead you into thinking that Australia is a nasty poisonous place and you 're safe in good old Britain . |
| 4 | If the reason was redundancy do not say that you were made redundant but that the job itself became redundant . |
| 5 | Pericles , in the funeral speech attributed to him by Thucydides , was clear that a withdrawal by the citizen from public life into privacy was not acceptable : " Here each individual is interested not only in his own affairs but in the affairs of the state as well … we do not say that a man who takes no interest in politics is a man who minds his own business ; we say that he has no business here at all . " |
| 6 | In saying that an event c caused an event e , or that e was the effect of c , we typically have in mind but do not say that a set of things including c , but not necessarily all occurring at the same time , was required for e . |
| 7 | We do not say that the phrases listed above should never be used . |
| 8 | However the reference has been made to the characteristics of that boundary , and although the authorities would prefer the characteristics of the one which they now propose , they do not say that the characteristics of the tight boundary are ones which are unacceptable . |
| 9 | I do not say that we should pull up the anchor and take the United Kingdom somewhere else . |
| 10 | We do not say that workers who have clocked in 35 or 40 years should not retire early , but we are emphatic that their departure should create new promotional opportunities and , most importantly , should create job vacancies for young school leavers who will add a great energy and enthusiasm in the enterprise ’ . |
| 11 | We do not say that if a house is worth eight times as much as another the tax bill should be eight times as much . |
| 12 | I do not say that in order to condemn the people who work in those industries . |
| 13 | All that is true , but I do not say that young people who have been deprived in that way should go out and steal cars . |
| 14 | I do not say that in party-political terms , because the Government 's objective is the same as mine . |
| 15 | An acceptable reason for not introducing an FE funding council — although I do not say that the reason would be either accurate or right — would be if the Government intended to merge it with the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council . |
| 16 | I do not say that people ’ have it taken out of them ’ for making a complaint at the time when that complaint is made , but there may be a problem the next time something happens . |
| 17 | I do not say that they all had the high quality of the measure that he introduced , but they were very fine measures indeed . |
| 18 | I do not say that in any criticism of the existing police authorities , my experience as Home Secretary I have to admit now some ten years ago was that on the whole they did a very good job , but I do now accept that the importance of law and order today demands a broad approach and possibly some new ideas . |