Example sentences of "not [adj] that i [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got your first letter to Nanking on Saturday , and had plenty of letters at Sian — I 'm not sure that I got them all , in particular I got a letter from Tom sent on March 23 , but I 'm not sure whether that 's the one you referred to , anyway I 'm grateful to you all for keeping me in touch . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm not sure that I like it , ’ said the King . |
| 3 | President of er has warned that there could be a real and serious civil war and the conflict that there is between Armenian people and Azerbaijan , I 'm not sure that I understand it , but I suppose it has some similarities to so many other conflicts we see around the world , Northern Ireland , er Yugoslavia , just , it goes back hundreds of years and . |
| 4 | Anyway , I 'm not certain that I like him . |
| 5 | Innocuous though it may seem at first sight , this can be interpreted ( at least in the written form ) in two ways : either ‘ I dislike him ’ ( the most usual reading ) , or , in suitable contexts , ‘ It 's not true that I like him ’ ( for instance , in I do n't dislike him , but I do n't like him either ) . |
| 6 | There is no need to postulate different negative elements , or different meanings of like : it is enough to allow the negative element either to take the whole of the rest of the sentence as its scope ( Neg ( I like him ) ) , in which case the meaning will be ‘ It 's not true that I like him , ’ or the single element like ( I Neg-like him ) , in which case the meaning will be ‘ I dislike him . ’ ’ |