Example sentences of "not [vb infin] that [pers pn] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SIR — Wang and colleagues ( May 22 , p 1306 ) give a full description of the advantages of keeping close blood glucose control in insulin-dependent diabetics , but I do not think that they show a fully balanced picture about the frequency of disadvantages that diabetics encounter . |
| 2 | Despite the length of one or two of the contributions of Labour Members , I do not think that they matched the significance of other speeches . |
| 3 | It must be right for auditors to audit and for regulators to regulate and I do not think that it helps the argument for there to be an overlap in responsibilities and in some way , as I say , to turn auditors into snoopers and narks er er and make more supine one 's er regulators . |
| 4 | Do you not think that I mean the people who were saying keep them there they 're saying it adds something to what 's in the city centre do you not agree ? |
| 5 | Apart from that , I do not think that I learned a great deal from Conservative Members ' contributions to the debate — except , perhaps , that the hon. Member for Chelmsford ( Mr. Burns ) , who is not noted for his breadth of vision , does not like Labour councillors , which did not seem to me to advance the argument very much . |
| 6 | You may not think that you have a problem , but in a company of even modest size it is statistically likely that some employees will have a drink problem . |
| 7 | Of particular interest in the light of Professor Shorter 's remarks , is the finding that many women in the survey who were not raped did not consider that they had the right to refuse sex with their husbands . |
| 8 | Those who subscribe to this view would disagree with the proposal of the FRED that where a warrant lapses unexercised the amount previously recognised should be reported in the statement of total recognised gains and losses , since they do not consider that it represents a gain to the company . |
| 9 | Was it the case that he had not told Lubor he was having a business dinner with her that evening purely and simply because he did not consider that he had a dinner engagement with her ? |
| 10 | He was using the common coin of the judicial language which is frequently employed to remind the jury of their duty in a serious case and their Lordships do not consider that he overstepped the limits of his obligation to ensure a fair trial . |
| 11 | A director of a life insurance company , for instance , does not guarantee that he has the skill of an actuary or a physician ’ . |
| 12 | Perhaps he does not know that I have a suitcase full of letters from constituents who are desperately concerned about the Bill . |
| 13 | We do not expect that he perused every word of the book . |
| 14 | Perhaps in one sense it does not matter that he ignored the sometimes vandalistic assaults on the gospel texts by Form-critics and Redaction-critics ; just as it could be seen not to matter that the school of philosophy in which he was reared had been rendered more or less obsolete by the man who — in the year that Lewis was writing The Problem of Pain — had become a professor of philosophy at Cambridge : Ludwig Wittgenstein . |
| 15 | Encountering the first pair of sentences in the context in which they occur , the reader does not assume that they describe a connected sequence of events and consequently does not interpret the potential linguistic cues ( like groom — he ) as referring to the same entity . |
| 16 | In other words , if a shopkeeper can not show that he took every reasonable step to satisfy himself about the age of the person buying cigarettes or any other tobacco product , he has committed an offence . |
| 17 | Hidden watchers and secret cameras do seem rather like the trappings of a police state and social researchers should not feel that they have a right to manipulate people . |
| 18 | It might be that they genuinely do not feel that they have the energy or even the interest to effect change in their lives . |
| 19 | In my retelling of the Divine Drama I have made use of primitive mythological ways of speaking because I do not believe that we have a better language that is available to us when it comes to understanding God 's revelation as story — as the great epic of salvation . |
| 20 | I do not see any clear trace that Ben Sira had read Greek books , and I do not believe that he needed the Iliad to learn that men " sprout and fade like leaves of a tree " ( 14.18 ) . |
| 21 | Wittgenstein says ( 332 ) : ‘ Do not believe that you have the concept of colour within you because you look at a coloured object — however you look ’ and ( 659 ) ‘ But when I say ‘ It tastes exactly like sugar ’ , in an important sense no remembering takes place . |
| 22 | Overall , even if they do get the paper they want , it does not follow that they get the political coverage they want . |
| 23 | A Frenchman [ may believe that ] ‘ potatoes ’ is English for apples … ; from the fact that he has a mistaken belief about ‘ potatoes ’ and ‘ apples ’ it does not follow that he has a mistaken belief about potatoes and apples . |
| 24 | Did she not understand that she had no need to fight me , to defend herself from me ? |
| 25 | It is interesting that the Secretary of State does not claim that he has a majority of public opinion on his side but merely that the very large majority against trust status was ill informed and listened to Labour propaganda . |
| 26 | The few surviving reports of cases heard in King 's Bench during the period he was a justice ( 1295–1316 ) do not suggest that he made a major contribution to the work of the court . |
| 27 | This silence over Chlothild and the Alaman victory need not imply that they played no part in Clovis 's conversion , but it is as well to consider what Avitus did choose to emphasize . |
| 28 | However , we do not recommend that you split the times for your aerobic walks during the first 14 days . |
| 29 | The fact that we do n't require the evidence of God 's existence to be overwhelming does not mean that we require no evidence of God 's existence at all . |
| 30 | If we can never be certain that we have stated every objective we might have , in the clearest form , and with the most practical means of testing whether it has been achieved , this does not mean that we abandon the attempt or that to try one 's best under the circumstances is not a helpful activity . |