Example sentences of "not [to-vb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Henry II would need to have been an unusually stupid man not to realize that there were bound to be difficult moments in the relationship between him and his heir . |
| 2 | She seemed not to realize that she had come to regard herself as a prisoner ; a hostage perhaps , engaged in some frightening psychological duel . |
| 3 | He was too clever not to realize that harbouring the Shah increased the danger of Muslim fundamentalism gaining round in the kingdom . |
| 4 | She was still naïve enough not to realize that ideas tossed of the cuff could sound quite different in the cold print of day . |
| 5 | If she was stupid enough not to realize that Timothy Gedge would be waiting for her it was n't anyone 's business except hers . |
| 6 | And in recent years it is impossible not to see that Dale Thomas ' name occurs more than others , including being five times the Club Champion — winning on one occasion after a 60-hole match ! |
| 7 | It is Philistine not to see that a fact and a theory , simple components of tenuous knowledge , are a way not necessarily of controlling nature , but of coming to terms with it , of playing homage ; science is less arrogant in many ways than the arts of landscape or of poetising , mainly because it is content to describe the world as it is . |
| 8 | But not to see that it exists shows a surprising ( and therefore interesting ) blindness . |
| 9 | The fools , not to see that what they madly desire would be such a calamity to them as no hands but their own could bring upon them . ’ |
| 10 | The position of the health professional — doctor , health visitor , or nurse — is not to pretend that their bit of health promotion is going to have more than a small additive effect to all the other necessary inputs , and they should be aware that they may be wasting their time if the other inputs are not there . |
| 11 | Though we can not look at things from all points of view at once , we can at least learn not to pretend that we are doing so . |
| 12 | 5.9.9.3 where the underlease provides such an option not to agree that the third party determining the rent in default of agreement shall act as an arbitrator or as an expert without the approval of the Landlord |
| 13 | Where a more serious breach of contract occurs , or you are sacked , you will need to consider whether or not to claim that you have been wrongfully dismissed . |
| 14 | This is not to claim that there would be a change in their basic natural impulses ( to assist animals or fellow beings , to protect children , prefer friends , and so on ) . |
| 15 | Again , this is not to claim that we all aspire to it equally : it is simply to claim that , whatever our personal specific goals , some amount of money is almost invariably required for their realisation . |
| 16 | This is not to claim that Marryat ever intended his sea-stories to be read primarily as studies in character . |
| 17 | This is not to claim that the war was totally unintended , but that national leaders had become caught in an irrational process which led inevitably to war . |
| 18 | Taking the second case first , it is clear that under section 8(2) the driver , in order that he may decide whether or not to claim that the breath specimen be replaced , should be fully informed of the nature of the option open to him and what will be involved if he exercises it . |
| 19 | That is not to claim that illus.1 wholly corresponds to what was used in 1790 , or even 1806 : but on the other hand , it appears to be plausible in the light of these important contemporary writers . |
| 20 | Perhaps in one sense it does not matter that he ignored the sometimes vandalistic assaults on the gospel texts by Form-critics and Redaction-critics ; just as it could be seen not to matter that the school of philosophy in which he was reared had been rendered more or less obsolete by the man who — in the year that Lewis was writing The Problem of Pain — had become a professor of philosophy at Cambridge : Ludwig Wittgenstein . |
| 21 | It would appear not to matter that the party to whom the notice is addressed does not acknowledge receipt nor even if the party addressed never actually receives the notice itself ( see Re 88 Berkeley Road , London NW9 ; Rickwood v Turnsek [ 1971 ] Ch 648 , and generally as to methods of severance , Conveyancer NS , 1976 , vol 40 , p77 ) . |
| 22 | ( He was not to know that Charles Olson , after next to no apprenticeship at all , would recklessly try to emulate him . ) |
| 23 | He will be criminally liable unless he was so insane as either ‘ not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing ’ , or ‘ not to know that what he was doing was against the law ’ . |
| 24 | He was not to know that because she never spoke about her feelings , she could not express them on demand . |
| 25 | Stalin was not to know that his criteria would exclude many nations that were subsequently to emerge ( for example , Pakistan , without a common language or territory , but with a common religion ) , and force some groups into being nations ( the most notorious example being the black American population ) . |
| 26 | But Sally was not to know that and she was mortified . |
| 27 | He was too intelligent not to know that she was reassuring him . |
| 28 | Poor Annie was not to know that Hilary found it difficult to understand her broad moorland dialect . |
| 29 | Party chairman Chris Patten , who repeatedly urged caution , was not to know that Treasury forecasts of recovery were baseless . |
| 30 | She was not to know that , once at sea , they would only be allowed on deck at certain times , like dogs let out to exercise . |