Example sentences of "[vb base] not think that " in BNC.

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31 Well — the argument goes — it must be because we do not think that behind the parrot 's utterance is the thought ‘ I 'm going to the bank ’ .
32 But I do not think that there can be a rational , scientific criterion by which you can say : this is really the best .
33 Where I differ from Bourdieu is that I do not think that this important distinction leads inevitably to absolute aesthetic relativism .
34 I do not think that there can be any combination that we did not try during my time in the parks , and the only thing that did not look positively awful were the short growing , pale , less intense blues of violas and lobelia under pink and red roses — other colours and growing heights were invariably a tasteless rag-bag .
35 Anybody wishing if anybody wishes to ring me anyone I 'm not I 'm not you see I do n't see that serves any purpose I 'm sorry I do not think that serves any purpose if you wish to ring me outside this meeting
36 , I do not think that his interpretation was in every respect correct .
37 I do not think that this is a problem in the German-speaking world .
38 The comparison between Matisse and Picasso is true and present and I do not think that one can look at Matisse without thinking of Picasso and vice versa .
39 I do not think that I have fantasticated them , but time always supplies some element of fancy .
40 During my researches for this series I have met many people who , though agreeing with the theory behind the reforms of British medical education proposed by the General Medical Council and other bodies , do not think that reforms can be implemented on a wide scale .
41 we do not think that this is a question which can be left to the Commission to solve , solely within the Supplementary Benefits scheme .
42 We do not think that any particular content in philosophy can be identified as female .
43 Again , I do not think that individuals are to be blamed for this : whole societies were caught up in this sexist interpretation of reality .
44 Moreover I do not think that it can be said that they succeed in righting the imbalance in the symbolism of Christianity .
45 I do not think that we have yet succeeded in taking in fully what quantum mechanical non-locality implies about the nature of the world .
46 I do not think that the one is an extension of the other but that they are qualitatively different , with a different aetiology .
47 The cost of rehabilitating a patient after a heart attack is somewhat less than being in a hospital bed for a third of a day , so I do not think that we are denting the NHS 's resources by providing this for everybody .
48 I do not think that that was because she was a more effective communicator .
49 I do not think that this conclusion is correct .
50 Whether one accepts that view or not — and I do not think that it is valid in its simple form ( see Fine and Harris ( 1985 ) ) — it is a powerful one ; in that context , the fact that the proportion of foreign assets in UK pension funds ' total investments has risen is a mark of the power that the post-1979 boom in the City 's foreign investment has had .
51 Medicine does have a culture of shared norms but on the whole I do not think that this has changed much .
52 I do not think that Kuhn 's claim that his position is not relativist can be sustained .
53 I do not think that it is fanciful to suggest that public confidence in the administration of justice is undermined by such assertions from a powerful interest group .
54 The case really turned on section 78 , as to which the judge had said ‘ whilst accepting the impressive evidence of the doctor , I do not think I would be justified in excluding this confession , ’ adding ‘ I do not think that section 78 really is aimed at , in truth , the circumstances here appertaining . ’
55 Having considered the evidence before the justices and Mr. Marston 's submissions upon that evidence I do not think that the argument underlying ground ( 4 ) is sustainable .
56 But I do not think that these circumstances demonstrate a contract between the valuer as principal and the borrower .
57 I do not think that it is necessary to refer to all of those provisions because they really do not take the matter any further .
58 ‘ For my part I do not think that the House of Lords in that case had in mind the special position in the administration of justice of the Director of Public Prosecutions and the Crown Prosecution Service or would have been prepared to extend the effect of the orders of a civil court in such a way as indirectly to bind them in the performance of their duties in relation to the criminal law and before the criminal courts in circumstances in which they had not sought and may not have wished for an order for discovery .
59 I find this a difficult case to understand but I do not think that it can be said to support the Woolwich principle .
60 ‘ I do not think that the mere fact of a payment under protest would be sufficient to entitle the plaintiff to succeed ; but I think that it affords some evidence , when accompanied by other circumstances , that the payment was not voluntarily made to end the matter .
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