Example sentences of "not [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course this must be tentative : records do not exist of Zuwaya organization and ideology two centuries ago . |
| 2 | Of regular smokers , 71 per cent thought their dads would not disapprove of smoking , compared with 8 per cent of regular smokers who thought he would disapprove . |
| 3 | I said , that if it was not troublesome and presuming too much , I would request him to tell me all the little circumstances of his life ; what schools he attended , when he came to Oxford , when he came to London , &c. , &c. , He did not disapprove of my curiosity as to these particulars ; but said , ‘ They 'll come out by degrees as we talk together . ’ ’ |
| 4 | Mistakes do not disappear of their own accord , and the text on the screen will be saved and printed exactly as it appears . |
| 5 | Ethel knew a lot more about what the master would and would not think of doing to a young woman than Mr Eames did . |
| 6 | I can not think of my own knowledge of the physical world in terms of my dispositions to behave , but only as my dispositions , construed as operating in the world of which |
| 7 | His books must sell , but he does not think of himself as an author . |
| 8 | Scorn will heaped on the book by people who can not think of the countryside as anything other than a marketable resource , or those who think they are being environmentally perceptive because they call a gate a peripherial access point and a path a mountain access route . |
| 9 | He admired a point which Stead had made about Polynesians and Christianity , but worried that he could not think of a Christian anthropologist . |
| 10 | Her friends did not think of her as a drunk and Rachel would be truly shocked if she knew about the long nights of insomnia and secret alcohol . |
| 11 | He can not think of anyone else currently playing who can do that . |
| 12 | ‘ Do you not think of those who must be responsible for them , who bear the burden and strain without training , and without help of any kind ? |
| 13 | For twenty minutes and more I could not think of a thing to write . |
| 14 | They did not and they could not think of themselves as remotely like a frog and a princess , yet mental shapes similar in heritage or configuration managed to creep stealthily up in between the tangles of their individual cells . |
| 15 | The Armaments Inspectorate at Nuremberg , commenting on the successful concealment of preparation for the invasion , noted that ‘ the concentration of numerous troops in the eastern areas had allowed speculation to arise that significant events were afoot there , but nevertheless probably the overwhelming proportion of the German people did not think of any warlike confrontation with the Soviet Union ’ . |
| 16 | McFarlane did not think of this as war management : it was a matter of encouragement , ‘ smoke and mirrors . |
| 17 | Many people can not think of playing music or listening to it until six o'clock in the evening . |
| 18 | I thought that Doone might not think of looking in Perkin 's workroom for a match to the arrow 's wood . |
| 19 | I honestly can not think of one good thing which Labour proposes to do . |
| 20 | But there is no question so difficult that Mr Kinnock can not think of a more difficult answer . |
| 21 | They did not think of crofting as idyllic . |
| 22 | Again , Anne felt she ought to do something but could not think of anything . |
| 23 | She prayed they would not think of looking under the bed . |
| 24 | We did not think of going to live abroad or of buying property outside Palestine . |
| 25 | But he could not think of any other way to work safely . |
| 26 | But he did not think of it as a cosmic event which must somehow change the whole of human thought , altering philosophy and theology and closing the mouths of poets ; such a view seemed to him superstitious , a denial of ordinary scholarship and ordinary hard-thinking rationality . |
| 27 | She 'd not think of that … |
| 28 | Why did I not think of that , then ? |
| 29 | I can not think of one argument against staying warm and dry . |
| 30 | Throughout this book , I have emphasized that we must not think of genes as conscious , purposeful agents . |