Example sentences of "not [verb] this to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although , in years to come , these might prove to be of social interest , many such letters refer only to domestic and personal trivia and , having personally recently discovered a letter written to me over 30 years ago by my wife just before we were married , I would not want this to be read by anyone else at all . |
| 2 | Pilate obviously did not consider this to be a threat to Roman authority and tried to have him released . |
| 3 | Naturally you should not expect this to be a full consultation , but it should give you time to see how you relate to the particular therapist concerned and how much confidence you feel in him . |
| 4 | But he said : ‘ We would not expect this to be the case when the ambulance station is within a few hundred yards of the person who made the call . ’ |
| 5 | Since as Jack Droney put it , Brent , with its left-wing trade unionists , ‘ was a bloody good place for the Grunwick strike to happen ’ , one might expect that the union involved had given the strikers not only support but increased impetus in their struggles , but members of the strike committee certainly did not feel this to be so . |
| 6 | Many technical experts in this country do not believe this to be sensible and know that similar views exist amongst their European colleagues . |
| 7 | Clearly , Devlin does not believe this to be possible , whereas Hart insists that it must be . |
| 8 | The Committee point out that a ‘ general ban on twin-tracking would deprive 3 million people of the right to be a councillor ’ ( Widdicombe 1986:112 ) and they did not believe this to be justified . |
| 9 | In practice , we do not believe this to be sufficiently important to invalidate comparisons . |
| 10 | It had grounds for such fears , since it was struggling to legitimize itself as the Palestinian representative and did not wish this to be challenged by any independent local movement . |
| 11 | Although it has confidently been predicted by a number of high-ranking orthodox medical practitioners that any research in homoeopathy would rapidly discredit the whole subject , I have not found this to be the case . |
| 12 | Like many of the parents , Rita readily agrees with the professional maxim that ‘ It 's natural to feel shocked ’ , but she clearly does not take this to be some scientific and objective concomitant of the situation , something in her genes . |
| 13 | For instance , management could have recognised right from the outset that the machinists had a vital role to play and not left this to be argued about in a battle with the computer staff . |
| 14 | Changes in stimulus distinctiveness might , indeed , be in part responsible for the development of different patterns of overt behaviour to the different training stimuli , but the mere fact that discrimination learning occurs can not prove this to be so . |
| 15 | We do not find this to be the case . |
| 16 | We do not find this to be the case . |
| 17 | Although the application of NIPPV on a general ward has been described as a difficult and time-consuming procedure for nurses we did not find this to be the case . |
| 18 | However , I must confess that I do not find this to be a serious problem at least , not yet . |