Example sentences of "[pron] can not think that " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Such is 67 : The detail in much of this poem remains enigmatic , but here as in 68 I can not think that the references to false ornament and cosmetics ( including wigs made of hair taken from the scalp of corpses ) are favourable to the Friend , who seems to be encouraging corruption by his own example or presence in this milieu . |
| 3 | I can not think that this is right . |
| 4 | I can not think that the words ‘ all costs ’ mean anything other than that . |
| 5 | The gravamen of the charge is the demand without reasonable or probable cause : and I can not think that the mere fact that the threat is to do something a person is entitled to do either causes the threat not to be a ‘ menace ’ within the Act or in itself provides a reasonable or probable cause for the demand … |
| 6 | If so , I can not think that your Lordships would do right , if you were now to reverse , as erroneous , a judgment of the Court of Appeal , proceeding upon a doctrine which has been accepted as part of the law of England for 280 years … . |
| 7 | I can not think that Taggy would have been obliged to turn away her admirers otherwise . ’ |
| 8 | I should suppose that it is deliberately not so expressed , for I can not think that so simple an expedient as the transfer of assets to a company resident in the United Kingdom and the immediate removal of that company outside it would not occur to the draftsman . |