Example sentences of "not [verb] [that] they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would wait a few days before having his hair cut , so that they could not think that they had made him . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | What I 'd like to do is to help them to see that they do n't need to give up on the computer , that they can actually be the master of it , although of course I do n't I 'm not suggesting that they become programmers — that would be to abdicate their function in another way — but certainly they can understand it , and I think of course it keeps coming back to this issue over and over again , an issue about education . |
| 9 | Surely you 're not suggesting that they had anything to do with his death ? ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Whilst the law is designed to give succour in times of difficulty to those who do their best , it will show little mercy to those who are at the receiving end of proceedings who can not demonstrate that they have given the highest priority . |
| 12 | It is difficult not to infer that they grew to suffer deprivations more impatiently and to believe more strongly that earthly happiness was attainable . |
| 13 | It was not supposed that they dealt at arm 's length . |
| 14 | For managers to have information about what happens in earlier and later phases of education does not guarantee that they put that knowledge to good use . |
| 15 | Many subsequently returned to their homes , all over the Soviet Union , where the local doctors may not know that they worked at Chernobyl and may therefore not recognise subsequent cancers or other problems as radiation-linked . |
| 16 | Some patients are anxious that their neighbours should not know that they have hospital appointments , and therefore prefer an unmarked car to an ambulance . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Not only do they hold good against the trustee himself , and against his creditors during his life-time and his representatives after his death , but also against all to whom he may have transferred the property , and who can not show that they acquired it for value and without notice of the trust . |
| 19 | They did not contest that they participated in the crime ring , but said they had no choice because of pressure from Chinese secret societies . |
| 20 | Putting both the police and headmen under the control of government agents did not ensure that they worked together . |
| 21 | they did not feel that they had made any substantial contribution to the report ; |
| 22 | For some elderly people who have no family or who ( quite reasonably ) do not feel that they need to hang on to capital to pass on to relatives who are themselves well provided for , the purchase of an annuity can be an advantage . |
| 23 | He by no means dismisses the claims of these poets , but gently and respectfully sets them aside — ‘ I do not feel that they have much part in this essay . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It might be that they genuinely do not feel that they have the energy or even the interest to effect change in their lives . |
| 26 | He threatened his crew with having their tongues cut out if they would not swear that they had sailed along the coast of the Indies ( they had , in fact , been sailing past Cuba ) . |
| 27 | Attempts by trade unions to organise such temporary workers might well make little headway , as much because the latter do not perceive that they need unions to protect them as because they are a transient population . |
| 28 | In fairness to the LTA , in the particular circumstances of the time , I do not believe that they had very much option . |
| 29 | Some of them could not believe that they had found themselves in a church , and were only stopping off en route to a nearby pub . |
| 30 | If he wisely orders his men to occupy a certain hill it does not follow that they had reason to occupy that hill even before they were ordered to do so . |