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

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1 In spite of all this , we do not think that anyone who has chosen to work in a job where he is paid weekly should have monthly payment imposed on him against his will .
2 The fools , not to see that what they madly desire would be such a calamity to them as no hands but their own could bring upon them . ’
3 Walkers pour over National Trust , Forestry Commission and Nature Conservancy information leaflets showing nature trails , with growing scepticism , not realising that they themselves are the problem .
4 He will be criminally liable unless he was so insane as either ‘ not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing ’ , or ‘ not to know that what he was doing was against the law ’ .
5 Similarly Emperor Marcus answered by rescript that the words in which a testator had provided that ‘ he did not doubt that whatever his wife had received she would restore to his children ’ should be treated as a trust .
6 Do you not know that what you belittle by the name tree is but the mere four-dimensional analogue of a whole multidimensional universe which — no , I can see you do not .
7 In the case of a defendant who uses words , a person can hardly fail to be aware of what he is saying , although he may possibly not know that what he is displaying ( if it be a book ) contains offensive material of which others are aware but he is not .
8 I do not feel that I myself am at all psychic and I rarely dream — at least to know clearly on awakening what I have dreamed ; yet I have had in my life two dreams of foreboding .
9 I do not believe that what we have heard today represents a settled statement of policy , or that it is founded upon solid conviction .
10 These unusual circumstances , and cases of corrupt diversion of corporate assets aside , however , it will in general be very difficult to demonstrate that the directors did not believe that what they were doing would maximise profits , because of the often insuperable problem of distinguishing between means and ends that this entails .
11 She can not believe that what she thinks about this and that has any value , because she has thought it .
12 The main reason that I was allowed to do the research was , I learned later , because their press was so bad the Moonies could not believe that someone who would listen to what they said could possibly come up with worse stories than those already in the media .
13 But as Erskine May points out , it does not follow that everything which is said and done within the confines of the chamber during a debate or other business forms part of a proceeding in Parliament .
14 to me that it would be perverse of us to fall into the trap if we were to do so of endorsing Policy E two and not know that what we were endorsing was in fact what the Secretary of State specifically rejected on the grounds perhaps that it was unduly restricted or detailed or inappropriate for some of those other reasons that are set out in the earlier part of that notice of approval .
15 So I hope I 've not complicated that I I always find it 's helpful to say this about this speaker this because no other speaker no speaker is here with a .
16 I 'm not saying that what I 'm saying is that that we must all have at the back of our minds a a sort of considered opinion of what 's
17 I am not saying that someone who does not understand his faith has no faith .
18 It 's non-examinable , but that does not mean that what you are taught here is not worthwhile !
19 This does not mean that nothing whatever qualifies that could conceivably take " contradictory " predicates .
20 This does not mean that he himself thought a trust the ideal way to realize his intentions .
21 The Lords held that the boys were guilty even though they did not realise that what they were doing might harm others .
22 If that is so , the defendant can not be convicted if he raises doubts as to whether or not he realised that the person with whom he was dealing was a policeman , or that he did not realise that what he was doing would make the task of the policeman more difficult .
23 In Parmenter the accused confessed to causing injuries to his three-month-old son but said that he did not realise that what he was doing would injure him .
24 That is not to say that someone who is using word processing or a similar application will not be able to make the best of a desktop publishing package but rather to point out that new skills will need to be learned , new concepts understood .
25 That 's not to say that I I believe that the villages er some of the villages are incapable of of .
26 That was not to say that she herself thought of the films as being an easy option .
27 And they were so contemptuous of the Nazis and their cohorts they could not imagine that they themselves featured in the minds and machinations of such louts .
28 With charming naivety , they do not imagine that they themselves are the source of it : they behave as they do when they see a frightened horse , becoming agitated and desirous of flight .
29 That 's perfectly true , it is a system of the end of the world and my only consc my only complaint is that I do n't think that what my Right Honourable Friend is suggesting is in fact a destruction of the tripartite system .
30 ‘ I know you mean well , but , try as I might , I ca n't think that what you are suggesting would be right — not for either of us .
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