Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] that it [be] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Given my hon. Friend 's well-known commitment to productivity , efficiency and careful spending of money in the public sector , I am surprised by her suggestion and I do not think that it is tremendously sensible .
2 of my households are single-person households — I do not think that it is quite that high — I shall make absolutely certain that every one knows the Labour party 's policy for them .
3 I do not think that it was entirely the question of the ownership of Nigerian oil ; more likely they genuinely believed that the Biafrans had no chance of success .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 I had not realised that it was even more complicated than I had been led to believe originally .
7 ( b ) Provided the the kind of damage is reasonably foreseeable , it does not matter that it is more extensive than could have been foreseen .
8 It did not matter that it was only the fourth time they had met ; she knew this moment was exceptional in her life and that , while their physical passion might be impulsive and unplanned , it was inescapable .
9 As there were always numerous staff and porters available , it did not matter that it was extremely heavy to carry even when empty .
10 Should this not be taken into account , and does it not appear that it is not taken into account in the voluntary code ?
11 While acquisitions , disposals and foreign subsidiaries all feature , I do not believe that it is particularly difficult — if you have a basic understanding and are willing to think in broad financial accounting terms .
12 I do not believe that it is entirely their fault , because they almost certainly have producers and controllers who tell them what they may or may not discuss .
13 Of course there is drug abuse in athletics , but I do not believe that it is as widespread as the press and some of the anti-campaigners make out .
14 With respect to my hon. Friend , I do not believe that it is ever possible to cut a hard-and-fast line .
15 Is my hon. Friend aware that I have lived for a number of years without any such advice , and I can not believe that it is really necessary ?
16 That is an essential part of the education process , and I do not believe that it was greatly exacerbated by the introduction of reforms .
17 Sri Lankans did not believe that it was morally wrong to convict a known cattle thief on false evidence , and officials often complained that true cases were spoilt by complainants who added additional false evidence .
18 Those who listened to him critically were dismayed he could not see that it was not disapproval by pacifists , intellectuals or even cowards that made the Nazi assaults an atrocity .
19 That an event is characterized in terms of the interdependent existence of subject and content does not entail that it is not physical according to such a conception of the physical .
20 I 'm not saying that it is necessarily trivialising to talk to interviewees about their clothes , it 's just that you do n't find the male presenters on Rock Steady talking to Phil Collins about his suits !
21 Despite these traditions , analysis of student results does not indicate that it is more difficult to gain a first in arts than it is in science subjects .
22 Just because not everyone may spot the toy gun in this ad and attach a certain symbolic significance to it , it does not mean that it is not there nor that it has no effect .
23 Simply because the egalitarian society has yet to become a reality does not mean that it is not possible .
24 The fact that something happens to be legal as a matter of tradition going far back into history does not mean that it is not a vice in society .
25 This does not mean that it is simply an exercise in resource management .
26 To give power to arrest on reasonable suspicion does not mean that it is always or even ordinarily to be exercised .
27 The fact that the beer has been produced in a different way does not mean that it is therefore harmful , and so on .
28 Just because the regional dimension has not received the attention afforded to monetary union , that does not mean that it is less important to our future economic well-being .
29 And remember , just because a lender brings out a loan with the ‘ professional ’ as its target market , this does not mean that it is necessarily the right one for you , no matter what your taste in trousers .
30 If this anthropological effort is what emerges most clearly from the Formen , we must not forget that it is here , as in all Marx 's work , for a political purpose .
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