Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [pron] [is] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ But you must not think it is only to bring you charity that I came .
2 The social worker I had at the time kept coming to see me in Low Newton and saying , ‘ Do you not think it 's best if you get him adopted ? ’
3 " Do you not think it 's very hot in here ? " the maid suddenly asked the cook .
4 I do not think there is really any great crime problem in Barnard Castle .
5 ‘ Everyone will be watching her to see what she does and although I do not think she is very fit , she has to be the favourite to win . ’
6 Most older people do not need what is interestingly referred to as ‘ warden-controlled accommodation ’ , although they seldom object to this extra facility .
7 Boat Race : ‘ I do not know who is ahead , but it 's either Oxford or Cambridge . ’
8 With regard to things we do not know it is more difficult .
9 I am coming later to the ‘ none-atall ’ which is one of the more emphatic observations that I have to make , namely that one must not assume there is necessarily a rational purpose , or even a felonious purpose , in the breach of law and order and the commission of crime .
10 Sadly , the city can not do what is most needed : join its suburban neighbours in a regional government that does away with redundancies and evens out the huge inequities in school financing and municipal services .
11 There is a significant difference , and I do not feel it is only a class and an age difference , between the spare dignity of the oath Marco has learned from his early years and the oath which the Rat has devised as part of the game he has created for his Club :
12 I do not believe it is merely the result of social conditioning that in the Scriptures , in the Jewish and Christian tradition , mankind and the Church is presented as feminine to God , to whom our response must be one of obedience in contrast to those religions in which the divine is regarded as contained within creation and is to be manipulated or cajoled in order to provide what man needs .
13 He is not a sceptic about the reality of global warming — he can claim to have been the first man to notice it — but he does not believe it is necessarily harmful .
14 This does not follow what is generally accepted as good industrial/commercial practice .
15 Sorry , just er to clarify was happy about er reversing the orders of these , provided we did not amend what is currently present er item one .
16 But from his identifying a person 's body as it appears to that person with that person 's ‘ introspected self ’ , it would seem that Mace can not mean what is ordinarily meant by the former phrase .
17 She does not need nurses in uniform , she almost shouts : just because she is disabled , it does not mean she is medically ill .
18 The addition of paid work to the housewife 's activities does not mean she is no longer a housewife .
19 SIR — Just because something is made in Japan does not mean it is wholly reliable .
20 And therefore ( d ) ‘ this is [ sic — should be ‘ appears ’ : JD ] white' does not express what is directly evident .
21 The reader may feel perplexity , but the text will not amplify what is there or rewrite itself in a simpler form .
22 It seems probable that a mixture of the two factors is involved , but we can not be sure that this is the case and we most certainly can not say which is more important than the other — let alone quantify ( in terms of percentages ) their relative importances .
23 Well plainly erm whatever the er Yorkshire people may think and I was born in Nottinghamshire , erm that it is you know you can not say it is absolutely unique .
24 I can not imagine he is terribly short of money .
25 I appreciate that 's a useful way to discuss it , but let's not imagine it 's necessarily going to turn out like that .
26 But I do n't think everyone is as aware as they should be of the after-effects .
27 I do n't think anything is as easy as it looks on paper in football .
28 Oh that 's sunken there in n it , yeah do n't think there 's yet an empty seat
29 Right , I mean the point I was making , I do n't think there 's anywhere
30 I do n't think , I do n't think there 's anywhere left now , there might be somewhere but it 'll be hard to find .
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