Example sentences of "i do [not/n't] think it " in BNC.

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1 I have never completely resolved my own dilemma , for I do not think it has a simple resolution .
2 I have never heard this case made in anything like the explicit fashion in which I have just outlined it , and I do not think it ever would be publicly made .
3 I do not think it can be said that the manner of death is any more horrific than it used to be ( although it may well be different ) but it may be that the way of reporting someone 's death has radically changed and that this has brought its own problems .
4 Well , I am shocked that such things can be published , I do not think it is right .
5 The issue is philosophical , but it is so central to the analysis of behaviour that I do not think it can be avoided .
6 But I do not think it is this threat alone which explains the sick feeling of dread — rather like the feeling of a man who knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight — which clouds the prospect of a Labour victory .
7 I do not think it can be claimed that they opened up new territory ( writings by Dorothy Heathcote and others in the 1970s were concerned with a level of sophistication in drama teaching which the team seemed not to be able to articulate ) , but in terms of giving some sense of order to the basic functioning of drama the publication deserves to be seen as an important landmark .
8 If anything happens I do not think it will be bad .
9 For I do not think it possible to study philosophy profitably without entering fairly deeply into the history of the subject , and for this there is not time at school , nor could it be a subject that would interest more than a very few pupils .
10 I can not speak for other hypnotherapists , but for myself I do not think it is a good idea .
11 I do not think it is complacent or smug ; one feels it has been worked for .
12 I do not think it wrong for a man to open his eyes , look around him and consider that there might be other roads upon which to travel . ’
13 I do not think it had occurred to anybody in court at this time that Waddell 's conviction would be anything but a foregone conclusion .
14 He gives Sting away at III , 204 , keeping an orc-blade but saying ‘ I do not think it will be my part to strike any blow again . ’
15 But I do not think it 'll be a good idea . ’
16 However , I do not think it is a particularly appropriate model of human social interactions , for two reasons .
17 In the light of all this , I do not think it premature to put forward an evolutionary scenario for natural language .
18 I do not think it fair that only two , or any ad hoc number , should be allowed to participate .
19 I take the view that , having regard to the recitals and to the terms of the order , one can read into the order itself the element of compromise , but again I do not think it is important for the decision of this case ; because the compromise , if compromise it was , was between the plaintiffs and Jack Bernardout , and I do not think it enures for the benefit of Joseph Bernardout , the defendant in these proceedings .
20 I take the view that , having regard to the recitals and to the terms of the order , one can read into the order itself the element of compromise , but again I do not think it is important for the decision of this case ; because the compromise , if compromise it was , was between the plaintiffs and Jack Bernardout , and I do not think it enures for the benefit of Joseph Bernardout , the defendant in these proceedings .
21 I do not think it would be helpful to try to define the point at which the court should be prepared to disregard the 16- or 17-year-old child 's wishes to refuse medical treatment .
22 That seems to me to be a good argument for saying that in the ordinary way the justices ought not to make an order for no contact between the parent and the child , but I do not think it is a satisfactory argument in the interpretation of section 34(2) and ( 3 ) .
23 I do not think it necessary to enter upon the technicalities of autrefois convict .
24 It is the doing of one or more acts which individually or collectively amount to such adverse interference with or usurpation of the owner 's rights which constitute appropriation under section 3(1) and I do not think it matters where there is more than one such act in which order the successive acts take place , or whether there is any interval of time between them .
25 ‘ I will send to him , though I do not think it will please him . ’
26 I do not think it probable they will land .
27 Secondly , I do not think it is a good idea to attack a plane with a hundred and seven passengers in it , and ‘ take it apart ’ as you say .
28 And as for his private life , I do not think it is James Pegg he desires .
29 I do not think it possible that datura , Indian or British , or deadly nightshade invaded our menu . ’
30 Secondly , I do not think it does a college principal any harm to operate in a different framework , see how others organise themselves and bring a principal 's view to bear upon validation exercises — and possibly upon SCOTVEC itself !
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