Example sentences of "[pron] can not believe that " in BNC.
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| 1 | This caused disquiet amongst Colonial officials and prompted Creech Jones , the Colonial Secretary in the later years of the Labour government , to circulate a memorandum to the Cabinet in early 1947 in which he said : ‘ I know full well how important it is that our overseas payments should be kept as low as they possibly can be , but I can not believe that this justifies a course which is contrary to our declared policy in regard both to Colonial and to commercial matters and contrary also to the policy which has long been pursued by the Labour Party . ’ |
| 2 | Admittedly , the thought-processes of anyone still undecided which way to vote on Thursday must be mysterious or vestigial : but I can not believe that such nonsense will have the slightest effect on the result of the election . |
| 3 | I can not believe that you will burn them . |
| 4 | I can not believe that you will not . |
| 5 | I can not believe that that man Candless stayed on top of his car all that time . |
| 6 | I can not say with any degree of certainty that this is happening , but the rolling performance is part of the bream 's basic instincts , and therefore I can not believe that certain members of a species abandon entirely a basic behavioural activity . |
| 7 | I can not believe that it can be right that this late in the game Poetry is still a closed book . |
| 8 | And this is a useful contribution I can not believe that the book jacket blurb was seen by Barry Gale ; it informs us that ‘ In 1859 , when Charles Darwin published The Origin of Species , he had no more evidence in support of his theory than did the creationists … ’ which is a caricature of Gale 's quite unexceptionable thesis . |
| 9 | I can not believe that the Masai , as I know them , would have applied for membership of an association of which they must be completely ignorant' . |
| 10 | ‘ My lord — ’ she said at length ‘ — I can not believe that my lord of Gloucester , being your uncle and the acknowledged protector of the realm , intends aught else than to rule in your name until you are of age . |
| 11 | I can not believe that I 've cut up the dress he used to love me to wear and all I get for thanks is cheek . |
| 12 | ‘ I can not believe that eight minutes every day of that sort of exercise will have any significant effect on fitness . ’ |
| 13 | I can not believe that using make-up , wearing nice clothes and caring for our bodies labels us as empty-headed , approval-seeking creatures . |
| 14 | ‘ I can not believe that the legislature ever intended that the powers contained in paragraph 1 , with the sanction of criminal penalties , should or could be invoked to obtain information or documents of a potentially incriminating nature from one who had already been cautioned and charged with offences under the Act … |
| 15 | Looking at the matter generally , I can not believe that that could conceivably have been the intention of Parliament when passing the Children Act 1989 and thereby , if Judge Galpin is right , taking away from children within England and Wales the right to have an order made in their best interests by returning them to where they ought to be , which was a right which those children had , and parents acting on their behalf were able to claim in the courts , until 14 October 1991 . |
| 16 | I can not believe that you were quite unaware of my growing affection for you . |
| 17 | I mean I can not believe that the guy |
| 18 | And I can not believe that the two did not exchange at length here , passing the very threshold of such a dominant historic occasion , an event which still burnt into the consciousness of all Scots at the time . |
| 19 | ‘ I can not believe that you are the kind of man who can just stop working on something , leaving it half-finished like this . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I can not believe that I am hearing you aright , my darling . |
| 21 | Is my hon. Friend aware that I have lived for a number of years without any such advice , and I can not believe that it is really necessary ? |
| 22 | The majority in the community from which I come would welcome internment at this time , and I can not believe that the integrity of the Roman Catholic community is such that its members would choose this continued slaughter in our Province in preference to removing from the streets those who command and control the violence that besets us . |
| 23 | I can not believe that it is sensible to spend as much as we do at present per hectare on tobacco . |
| 24 | I can not believe that many members of the public believe that that is justice , or that it conveys the right message to those who , tonight , will steal a car and race it in the path of some other innocent victim . |
| 25 | No-one can deny that being pretty helps — no female on breakfast television would have a career otherwise — but I can not believe that we are turning back to the dark days when it was deemed the most important thing of all . |
| 26 | I I can not I I can not believe that it is w within the the standards of the conservative party that I joined , that this sort of diary writing , gossipy , pseudo history er is part of the convention . |
| 27 | Both books talk of this power as being abnormal , but I can not believe that people have the power to just FLEX and move an object . |
| 28 | She can not believe that what she thinks about this and that has any value , because she has thought it . |
| 29 | Burton 's devil was a terrible and limitless sense of driving pleasure : it was fuelled by awesome capacity and the hunger of those who can not believe that such fortune will not vanish before their appetite is appeased . |
| 30 | Although one can not believe that times were good for immigrant artists in the 1950s , a quantity of painting seems to belong to the period , though done a decade or more later . |