Example sentences of "he does not think " in BNC.
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| 1 | His books must sell , but he does not think of himself as an author . |
| 2 | He does not think MNTKs will last ; they are ‘ a form of transition from a state-run system to an independent one ’ . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In this respect Locke is not an empiricist : he does not think that geometrical knowledge or , for that matter , the knowledge we would have in natural philosophy if we knew the real essences of substances , is empty and trivial . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | What he says about the king 's own explanation for his forwardness in battle is one of a number of examples of d'Ayala 's perception of the Scottish kingdom : ‘ He ( the king ) said to me that his subjects serve him with their persons and goods , in just and unjust quarrels , exactly as he likes , and that therefore he does not think it right to begin any warlike undertaking without being himself the first in danger . ’ |
| 8 | He does not think they constitute scientific claims . |
| 9 | He tells us that there are three things he does not think acupuncture can cure : existential Angst , low self-esteem and love sickness . |
| 10 | He does not think , he simply works . |
| 11 | Herodotus can not bring himself to believe in a story which gives as the cause of centuries of rivalry ‘ nothing worse than woman-stealing on both sides ’ ( 42 ) , for he does not think the Greeks could possibly have gone to war over anything so trivial , and indeed he appears to concur with the Persian view that ‘ no young woman allows herself to be abducted if she does not wish to be ’ ( 42 ) . |
| 12 | The right hon. Member for Birmingham , Sparkbrook ( Mr. Hattersley ) says that it will be at £36,000 , but the right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Monklands , East ( Mr. Smith ) will not tell us and says that he does not think that it is necessary to say so . |
| 13 | I do n't believe that the Secretary of State has need to call it in and indeed Mr Curry has written to the local Member of Parliament saying his mind is still open but on the information he had in October he does not think that these that this application raises issues of more than local importance . |
| 14 | ‘ No-one is so old that he does not think he could live another year ’ |