Example sentences of "that [pron] [modal v] not [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | He argued that I can not know that my diary is in the ( closed ) bottom drawer of my desk unless I have reason to believe that my experience makes that proposition probable ; we can suppose , perhaps , that my relevant experience is that I remember having put the diary there five minutes ago and that I do not remember having touched the drawer since , together with my general knowledge of the consistent behaviour of the experienced world . |
| 2 | I put the seed of doubt into Steve 's mind about the fact that I could not say that er bearings could be guaranteed P five at that price . |
| 3 | But when I did so , the words I uttered for the record were that I could not accept that the proper constitutional practices , as I understood them , were being observed . |
| 4 | I told the Cabinet that I could not accept that the traditional basis for collective responsibility had been established . |
| 5 | She saw it was herself , there on the canvas ; in fact it was so much herself that she could not believe that she could be both people , one here on the studio floor and one sitting there clasping her knees , her eyes lost in faraway visions , her white feet on wet black rocks against which little waves were breaking in plumes of spray . |
| 6 | I mean that you can not say that carp are generally nocturnal feeders , or morning feeders , or whatever . |
| 7 | However , I argued that we should not suppose that the essentially competitive process he proposed implies a competitive outcome . |
| 8 | When considering their applicability to particular organizations it is necessary to heed Clegg and Dunkerley 's warning that we should not assume that power resources will have equal utility to the members of all organizations in all situations . |
| 9 | Certainly it is true that we can not expect that writers in Palestine thousands of years ago would have talked about sicknesses in the jargon of medical aetiology . |
| 10 | They all require us to make sense of the realist thought that it is always possible that , unknown to us , the world differs radically from the way it appears to us , and argue from this that we can not know that the world really is the way it appears to us . |
| 11 | The Labour party says that we can not argue that a single person should pay less than a family next door with several working adults . |
| 12 | The padre told them that they must not think that theirs was a wasted journey . |
| 13 | He would wait a few days before having his hair cut , so that they could not think that they had made him . |
| 14 | Well it pays to tramp around you see the problem with Jackie and Len has always been that they can not believe that you can get things in a place like W H Smith that will , that will do very nicely as a Christmas present , they tend to go |
| 15 | A European Commission statement issued on Oct. 8 on behalf of the European Communities ( EC ) warned that this extension of the existing 30-year US embargo " had the potential to cause grave damage to the transatlantic relationship " , adding that it could not accept that " the USA unilaterally determines and restricts EC economic and commercial relations with any foreign nation which has not been designated by the UN as a threat to peace or order " . |
| 16 | Is not the real reason why the Secretary of State makes those absurd and fictitious claims about the effect of the social charter , which bears no resemblance to the reality of the proposals , that he dare not admit that the Government are opposed , not just in detail but in principle , to the idea of binding employment standards across the Community ? |
| 17 | He ‘ produced his bell and rang it , stating that that was what he did at the time ’ , but the magistrate told him ‘ that he must not think that everyone had to scamper out of the way upon hearing the sound of his bell ’ . |
| 18 | He added that he could not agree that the prizes were liberal . |
| 19 | Grieving father Garry Tomlins said at his Cork home that he could not accept that his children 's deaths were a ‘ freak , million-to-one ’ accident . |
| 20 | Sadat was shocked ; later he told his wife that he could not believe that the Shah would have allowed any foreign power such influence over his country 's affairs . |
| 21 | He still could n't entirely believe it , In the sense that he could not believe that it was happening to him , that he was so vulnerable to such a common , almost hackneyed feeling . |
| 22 | Just a fortnight ago , on 14 November , Councillor Mike Hastie , who is the Tory leader on Aberdeen district council , was reported as saying that he could not believe that the Government would now push through the measures . |
| 23 | He said that he could not believe that it should be easier to challenge a reasoned award issued by an expert than a reasoned award issued by an arbitrator . |
| 24 | I hope that he will not say that Kala is the one next to Rayo . |