Example sentences of "not [vb infin] that " in BNC.
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1 | Do not think , he wrote , biting his lips in concentration , bending low over the page , blinking to keep the sweat out of his eyes , do not think that it was ever far from my mind . |
2 | This method has been taught for many years and I do not think that pilots who have learned to do it this way need bother to change . |
3 | You may not think that you have a problem , but in a company of even modest size it is statistically likely that some employees will have a drink problem . |
4 | I should not think that Mr Kinnock would have the same need for such structures . ’ |
5 | Furthermore , the insurers are judge and jury rolled into one — if they do not think that your case has a reasonable chance of success they will not indemnify you . |
6 | You may not think that access cards for greater access are a good idea , but what are you proposing should be done to double the age-participation rate in this country ? |
7 | He did not think that he judged wisely to accept , because he accepted another job only two years after he was appointed and then had to withdraw because he was found not old enough to be legal . |
8 | When he looked back later in life he did not think that this dark night was caused by what happened on the road at Godmanchester . |
9 | The faculty could not think that a young man of 35 years , who had written one book which not everyone thought wonderful , could hold a candle to his predecessor . |
10 | He did not think that the then bench in the Church were all well qualified to this end . |
11 | He did not think that Ramsey would be interested in the load of administration which he would have to carry . |
12 | He added that while the evangelicals had their part in the Church he did not think that on the whole they had the qualities suitable for being bishops . ’ |
13 | Miles does not think that this is the case and believes frying is healthy , profitable and popular . |
14 | As a backbencher , his mind changed : ‘ Do you not think that the tone of England is more liberal than the policy of the government ? |
15 | He does not think that we need to have studied , in moral philosophy , the reduction of the ‘ motions of the mind ’ to natural philosophy in order to understand , in political philosophy , the causes of ‘ the civil duties of a subject ’ . |
16 | He does not think that knowledge is acquired by demonstrative syllogisms which have maxims and definitions for premisses ; in many places in the Essay he criticizes various parts of this view . |
17 | The non-philosophical ‘ vulgar ’ do not think that all we know are ideas . |
18 | Unlike Hobbes , he does not think that words are general by being collective names for a number of particulars ; ‘ they do not signify a plurality . ’ |
19 | And I do not think that Helen is unusual or unfathomable in translating this into a hatred of her own body , a fear of its femininity , unpredictability and curviness , and a longing to keep it all ‘ under control ’ . |
20 | I do not think that a single critic noticed that it was any different from the customary ‘ rum-te-tum ’ , but if one of them did he evidently did n't think it was worth a comment . |
21 | I do not think that anyone attempting to classify the vertebrates would fail to recognize the Anura as a group , or that , presented with an adult vertebrate , one would be in any doubt as to whether or not it was an Anuran . |
22 | WP So you do not think that Hungary will become one more cog in the greedy progress of capitalism ? |
23 | Elisabeth did not think that a life sentence of Bo-Bo 's knitting was the harshest a man might serve . |
24 | They did not enjoy Aintree two years ago and did not think that Ghofar ( who was unplaced to Mr Frisk ) enjoyed himself much either . |
25 | One can sympathise with owners of great houses , faced with tax and running costs , but let them not think that furnishings of the standing of Kent 's at Houghton can simply be dispensed with as ‘ surplus to requirements ’ and that their loss from the house would not in future be regretted . |
26 | Mr Pearse said : ‘ Do not think that we have not been fighting for the price of Midland shares that we have just received . |
27 | We do not think that local authorities will , generally speaking , take bold steps to provide facilities for the study of non-vocational subjects . |
28 | [ New ] Wolverton has now been modernised and , apart from a pleasant public library and some flower beds in the narrow residential streets , I do not think that the result is a great amelioration . |
29 | — Governments should not think that even this round of new demands from the Community will be the last , nor that the Eurocrats ' appetite can be stilled with concessions here and there : on the contrary , the appetite for power grows with the feeding . |
30 | ‘ Do you not think that our women readers will be interested in what I have written ? ’ |