Example sentences of "[pron] [be] not [adj] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | An excellent overview of organisational communication research written specifically with reference to the external organisational environment appears in a valuable compendium Handbook of organizational communication — a volume that in this context I am not ashamed to admit that I came across just by chance in a bookshop whilst looking for something completely different ! |
| 2 | I am not ashamed to admit that I am not overwhelmed with sympathy for muggers and molesters . |
| 3 | For I am not ashamed to admit that I am The Burpman . |
| 4 | I am not able to say that the steering group has achieved fair and equal representation of all its members . |
| 5 | When I reappear in my flat I am not surprised to learn that the two doughballs have said absolutely nothing . |
| 6 | He said : ‘ I 'm not prepared to accept that their decision is carved out in tablets of stone . |
| 7 | I 'm not prepared to accept that any more than I am prepared to accept the hogwash that we heard from Bob Morgan and his Liberal Democrats , because of course it may be extremely comfortable for him to be acting like a beached dolphin on the shores of Abu Dhabi , but the fact of the matter is , of course , that the Liberal Democrats , with or without the backs of their envelopes and cigarettes packets , are extremely unlikely to be making any national legislation , so they are quite comfortable in being able to observe how others might or might not do it . |
| 8 | I think , as I said before , the pro The idea of Europe , the profile of Europe is important , and although i do n't think I should be campaign , if I win tonight , on things that interest me and do n't interest others , I 'm not afraid to say that I do want to make it , to a degree at least , a genuine European campaign . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm not afraid to admit that I wanted you last night , more than I 've wanted any woman for a long time . ’ |
| 10 | I 'm not ashamed to admit that I was encountering the vast majority of the fish on show for the first time . |
| 11 | I know that the message is getting through to gay men , but I 'm not surprised to hear that it 's not getting through to heterosexuals . |
| 12 | Although allowed to visit her husband only rarely during his twenty years in Spandau , she and her six children had never ceased to support him , and I was not surprised to hear that during their father 's absence all six had obtained university degrees . |
| 13 | I was not surprised to learn that the shelling of our positions was not the German guns but the British guns ( the bastards ) . |
| 14 | I was not prepared to agree that Britain could be outvoted on any substantive issue of foreign policy . |
| 15 | Although I hoped that I would find that the church stood at least on one circle , I was not prepared to find that four Circles of Time passed through it ! |
| 16 | I was miserable with cold , but although I was prepared to admit that I was miserable , I was n't prepared to admit that my misery had any connection with cold . |
| 17 | Well , I was n't prepared to believe that my career would be over almost before it had started . |
| 18 | Somehow you are not surprised to learn that Emecheta borrowed the goddess ' name , Ogwuguwu , for her publishing imprint . |
| 19 | There was always a close relationship between the Armed Forces and the railways so that we are not surprised to learn that many barracks were built by or for Service personnel . |
| 20 | We , society as a whole , must decide what we want school to do ; and if we can not agree on this we are not entitled to complain that schools , and teachers , fail to give us what we want , nor can we hope to find ways to improve the situation . |
| 21 | But there is still a great lack of clarity and we are not prepared to pretend that we know the answer , thereby running the risk of causing at least as much damage as we do good . |
| 22 | One is not free to deny that when one 's action actually helps one of the parties then the profit is not a valid reason , for that is to abandon the case and adopt the view of neutrality espoused according to which neutrality is determined by the consequences of one 's action . |
| 23 | This is Brahms at his most radiant and affecting , music of such intimacy that one is not surprised to learn that its suitability for public performance was questioned . |
| 24 | Since Lewis buried the secrets , first from himself and then from others , there is not much hope that those coming after will be able to follow the story of his conversion . |
| 25 | There is not much doubt that in the past direct mail has been a blunt instrument and often still is . |
| 26 | Despite the lack of comparative data demonstrating it , there is not much doubt that this species has declined markedly in Sussex , as in other parts of Britain . |
| 27 | There is not much sign that the King did in fact profit from the sale of offices ; but others certainly could and did . |
| 28 | There , the audience was very much divided as to its merits and there is n't much doubt that Comerford , certainly one of Ireland 's most distinctive and challenging film-makers , will probably always get that reaction . |
| 29 | An over-simplification perhaps , but there is n't much doubt that a blank space in the newspaper is n't going to do an agency much good . |
| 30 | In Wales there was not much doubt that the result would be negative . |