Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] that [pron] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 I 'm not demanding that you succeed , only that you try .
2 She seemed not to realize that she had come to regard herself as a prisoner ; a hostage perhaps , engaged in some frightening psychological duel .
3 He ‘ produced his bell and rang it , stating that that was what he did at the time ’ , but the magistrate told him ‘ that he must not think that everyone had to scamper out of the way upon hearing the sound of his bell ’ .
4 He would wait a few days before having his hair cut , so that they could not think that they had made him .
5 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 .
6 I was much more impressed by Mr. Kasner 's evidence than by that of Mr. Mahmoud , but I do not think that they differ on any material point .
7 When I read that junior Ministers are interfering with the curriculum , I get worried , because I do not think that they know very much about it .
8 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 .
9 If then you have invited the artists of Europe to send in plans for a Plan which we have no intention of executing , two questions will arise — the first is who will pay the Premiums which you propose to offer for these Plans , seeing that we could hardly propose to Parliament to vote Premiums for Plans that are not to be executed , and secondly whether the Artists of Europe will not think that they have been trifled with in being asked to send in Plans for an undertaking which the Govt had on consideration determined not to attempt .
10 I do not think that they have any intention of using them — nor have the Russians — but the risk that , as the system disintegrates , people may simply sell off the smaller nuclear weapons is a real one .
11 Mr Pearse said : ‘ Do not think that we have not been fighting for the price of Midland shares that we have just received .
12 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 .
13 I do not think that we have had such a clear picture before of the extraordinarily wide variations between different parts of the country .
14 He does not think that we need to have studied , in moral philosophy , the reduction of the ‘ motions of the mind ’ to natural philosophy in order to understand , in political philosophy , the causes of ‘ the civil duties of a subject ’ .
15 I do not think that we need visual aids .
16 No , I do not think that we need to hear any more points of order .
17 As I have told my hon. Friend before , I do not think that there has ever been any prospect of any member of the European Community or of the United Nations believing that a United Nations or a Western European Union peace-keeping force could force its way into Yugoslavia against the opposition either of the Yugoslav national army — the JNA — or of any armed force .
18 Having heard the exchanges earlier today , I do not think that there has been any suppression .
19 I do not think that anyone attempting to classify the vertebrates would fail to recognize the Anura as a group , or that , presented with an adult vertebrate , one would be in any doubt as to whether or not it was an Anuran .
20 I do not think that anyone has ever accused me of being Ebenezer Scrooge .
21 Kellett-Bowman ) , who wanted to retain the poll tax — I do not think that anyone has told her yet that the Conservatives propose to do away with it .
22 I do not think that anyone has ever seen a state wither away quite as fast as the Soviet state has in recent weeks .
23 ‘ Do you not think that someone suspected ? ’
24 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 .
25 The noise in the Chamber tonight did not do the House great credit , but I do not think that it came from one side alone .
26 they did not think that it had been a whole school effort ;
27 I actually understood what the Hon. and learned Gentleman said , which is unusual , although I do not think that it contributed much to the debate .
28 And I do not think that it means , as counsel argued , the individuals who inhabit these islands .
29 Whilst I would apply that proposition completely in most cases , and particularly in cases which affect life , liberty or property , I do not think that it applies in all cases .
30 I do not think that it matters greatly whether this kind of contract is called a sale or not .
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