Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] not [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 31 | I would not suggest that a return to such a programme is either necessary or appropriate . |
| 32 | And I would not feel that Kenneth would ge could get near to any one of us . |
| 33 | I would have thought that most things have been tried by now and I would not imagine that there are many other avenues to be followed . |
| 34 | I would not say that the developmental view is a consequence of the thoughtaction analogy exactly , because there could be constructivist theories that do not mention development . |
| 35 | It is true there are forms of the palmette which look a little like acanthus but I would not say that they are necessarily earlier and that the acanthus developed out of the palmette . |
| 36 | However , I would not claim that these displays have any culturally mediated symbolic meaning , as do the myths and rituals which bind human groups . |
| 37 | On the other hand ( there is always another hand in these matters ) I would not claim that , because I could explicate my own novel line by line , that is all it could mean , and I am well aware of the danger of inhibiting the interpretive freedom of the reader by a premature display of my own , as it were , ‘ authorised ’ interpretation . |
| 38 | Lord Justice Watkins added : ‘ I would not accept that he did so to deceive his creditors , present or future . ’ |
| 39 | I would not pray that prayer if I was going to continue to hold something against someone . |
| 40 | I shall not fail that rendezvous . |
| 41 | By then the subject-matter had enthralled me , and I shall not say that I felt more loving . |
| 42 | Some say I play down the ‘ grinding toil ’ that is an unavoidable part of it all , so I will not deny that this year it was done by a very small corps of loyal people , several from without the congregation . |
| 43 | ‘ I will not say that they are wrong but I will say that I think they are definitely unwise in the present climate of opinion … . |
| 44 | I will not say that the latter reason was not one of my first pulls towards Theosophy . |
| 45 | And , said Fenella , very firmly indeed , I will not believe that any of us are in danger . |
| 46 | I can not feel that I am truly mistress here , while your mother is in residence . |
| 47 | Yet I can not feel that Adam was to blame . |
| 48 | I can not feel that we had been negligent , had we been dealing with another man . |
| 49 | All I can now remember of questions and answers is writing a three-hour essay on ‘ Security ’ , and I can not think that it was very good . |
| 50 | Such is 67 : The detail in much of this poem remains enigmatic , but here as in 68 I can not think that the references to false ornament and cosmetics ( including wigs made of hair taken from the scalp of corpses ) are favourable to the Friend , who seems to be encouraging corruption by his own example or presence in this milieu . |
| 51 | I can not think that this is right . |
| 52 | I can not think that the words ‘ all costs ’ mean anything other than that . |
| 53 | The gravamen of the charge is the demand without reasonable or probable cause : and I can not think that the mere fact that the threat is to do something a person is entitled to do either causes the threat not to be a ‘ menace ’ within the Act or in itself provides a reasonable or probable cause for the demand … |
| 54 | If so , I can not think that your Lordships would do right , if you were now to reverse , as erroneous , a judgment of the Court of Appeal , proceeding upon a doctrine which has been accepted as part of the law of England for 280 years … . |
| 55 | I can not think that Taggy would have been obliged to turn away her admirers otherwise . ’ |
| 56 | I should suppose that it is deliberately not so expressed , for I can not think that so simple an expedient as the transfer of assets to a company resident in the United Kingdom and the immediate removal of that company outside it would not occur to the draftsman . |
| 57 | He named a sum , adding ‘ I can not hope that you will agree to continue as a mere reader here . ’ |
| 58 | ‘ Candidate ( thinking he has at last come upon a Village Hampden ) : ‘ I can not conceive that the Election can in any way affect your rights here . ’ |
| 59 | I can not conceive that the pathologist will trouble to look there for a puncture mark and indeed , prior to that eventuality , it does n't seem likely that the emergency team of paramedics they 'll send out from Brighton General will be well enough acquainted with the action of this drug to hit upon the right antidote in time to prevent her from expiring . ’ |
| 60 | ‘ I can not forget that I was crowned head of the United Kingdom ’ , said the Queen in her Silver Jubilee speech in May 1977 . |