Example sentences of "[not/n't] [v-ing] [that] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm not demanding that you succeed , only that you try . |
| 2 | Walkers pour over National Trust , Forestry Commission and Nature Conservancy information leaflets showing nature trails , with growing scepticism , not realising that they themselves are the problem . |
| 3 | Although hypothermia can happen accidentally , it is essentially an insidious condition that can happen over several hours , the victim becoming sleepier and sleepier in this time and not realising that he or she is freezing to death . |
| 4 | He saw you coming and begged for mercy , not realising that his words were being transmitted and repeated by Michael Banks on stage . |
| 5 | I DISCOVERED OIL pastels one Christmas when kindly relation bought me a large box after hearing that I painted in pastels ; not realising that it was the soft chalk variety that I used . |
| 6 | It would seem to cover the situation where the accused takes the victim 's umbrella dishonestly and the victim buys back the umbrella , not realising that it is his own . |
| 7 | I set fire to a barn , not realising that there was a sick cow in there that perished , and I got three years ’ approved school . |
| 8 | ‘ I liked the coffee tonight , ’ he said , not allowing that it was the same instant coffee as ever , and to deserve the goodness she determined to go up to Soho tomorrow for some beautiful fresh espresso beans . |
| 9 | Your reader will then know that you are not presuming that she or he knows what the term means . |
| 10 | I am not suggesting that one should even form an interpretative overview , merely that details of notation , phrasing and articulation , tempo , dynamics and so on are considered alongside balance , texture , and even acoustical implications . |
| 11 | ‘ You 're not suggesting that what happened to me this morning was attempted murder , are you ? |
| 12 | I am not suggesting that we should be completely sceptical about the value of introspection . |
| 13 | I 'm not suggesting that we should n't care about these little games and trifling details of life , for God wants us to practise on them in this world ; but I would like to see us not so strained and frantic in our concern about them . |
| 14 | Whilst that may be interesting ( and I am not suggesting that we should refrain totally from such activity ) , something more is needed if we are really to approach the Earth and the earth spirit with any depth and with any hope of useful results . |
| 15 | I 'm not suggesting that we chain Peter to Caliban for eighteen hours a day . |
| 16 | Surely you 're not suggesting that they had anything to do with his death ? ’ |
| 17 | What I 'd like to do is to help them to see that they do n't need to give up on the computer , that they can actually be the master of it , although of course I do n't I 'm not suggesting that they become programmers — that would be to abdicate their function in another way — but certainly they can understand it , and I think of course it keeps coming back to this issue over and over again , an issue about education . |
| 18 | I 'm not suggesting that your baby would n't be happy or well cared for , simply that he or she needs a mother who 's secure and happy with herself . |
| 19 | I am not suggesting that my aunt 's remark served as some sort of trigger for my disease , because I did not in fact become anorexic until three or four years later . |
| 20 | He is not suggesting that it is ‘ thought ’ that is the main determining force . |
| 21 | I am not suggesting that it is proven that our motives , reasons and purposes are not themselves reducible to mechanically operating causal factors , as a fully determinist model would have it ; but if that is the case , we are so far from being able to specify these factors that they do not offer a model we can actually work with — as we saw in the discussion of positivist criminology in Chapter 2 . |
| 22 | We are not suggesting that it was a good thing that a flock of kids roosted on Mr Jones 's garden fence . |
| 23 | Peter , North Yorkshire , I hope Mr is not suggesting that it would be the intention of the County or the District pursuing the new settlement to er include within it er polluting industry . |
| 24 | Live the natural way : No , I am not suggesting that you return to some sort of Tarzan and Jane existence , simply that you try and reduce your dependence on those mechanical things which sometimes seem to threaten to take over our lives . |
| 25 | I am not suggesting that you should collapse in a soggy heap if you bang your head or shut your finger in the door ; but suppressing tears when you are really unhappy is suppressing the grief itself and this can be harmful in several ways : |
| 26 | I am not suggesting that you can never have another cup of coffee or tea but that here , as in many other areas of life , moderation is the best policy . |
| 27 | I am not suggesting that you throw extravagant dinner parties every night when I advocate entertaining . |
| 28 | I am not suggesting that you should be totally selfish , but people will put on those who ca n't say ‘ no ’ when they need a helping hand . |
| 29 | While I am not suggesting that you immediately dismantle an arrangement of flowers , perhaps after a day or two you could carefully remove a leaf or two , and a few flowers . |
| 30 | ‘ My dear Constance , I am not suggesting that you should no longer visit me . |