Example sentences of "be not [adj] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | An excellent overview of organisational communication research written specifically with reference to the external organisational environment appears in a valuable compendium Handbook of organizational communication — a volume that in this context I am not ashamed to admit that I came across just by chance in a bookshop whilst looking for something completely different ! |
| 2 | I am not ashamed to admit that I am not overwhelmed with sympathy for muggers and molesters . |
| 3 | For I am not ashamed to admit that I am The Burpman . |
| 4 | I am not able to say that the steering group has achieved fair and equal representation of all its members . |
| 5 | When I reappear in my flat I am not surprised to learn that the two doughballs have said absolutely nothing . |
| 6 | The prosecution are not obliged to prove that the defendant intended to cause some actual bodily harm or was reckless as to whether such harm would be caused . |
| 7 | Criminals are not supposed to reveal that they are as human as the rest of us ! |
| 8 | But there is still a great lack of clarity and we are not prepared to pretend that we know the answer , thereby running the risk of causing at least as much damage as we do good . |
| 9 | It seems that the Government are not prepared to accept that a lot of people are not sufficiently intelligent to understand the system and the bureaucracy that the Government have created . |
| 10 | If the Government are not prepared to abolish that most ineffective policy , will they at least consider flexibility in the application of the rules , taking particular account of men who are kept on shore because of bad weather or boat maintenance ? |
| 11 | I do not know any ( secondary ) school teachers who , in private , are not willing to say that they are substantially dissatisfied with the job that schools are doing , for at least a substantial proportion of pupils . |
| 12 | If cases are not computerised ensure that every department has a list of the firm 's major clients which is kept in a secure place . |
| 13 | Somehow you are not surprised to learn that Emecheta borrowed the goddess ' name , Ogwuguwu , for her publishing imprint . |
| 14 | There was always a close relationship between the Armed Forces and the railways so that we are not surprised to learn that many barracks were built by or for Service personnel . |
| 15 | We , society as a whole , must decide what we want school to do ; and if we can not agree on this we are not entitled to complain that schools , and teachers , fail to give us what we want , nor can we hope to find ways to improve the situation . |
| 16 | Youthful offenders were also believed to be getting younger , and according to one magistrate parental authority was at such a low ebb that ‘ it is melancholy to find that some parents are not ashamed to confess that children of seven or eight years old are entirely beyond their control ’ , while another thought that ‘ in nine cases out of ten , children are entirely masters of the position ’ . |
| 17 | He said : ‘ I 'm not prepared to accept that their decision is carved out in tablets of stone . |
| 18 | I 'm not prepared to accept that any more than I am prepared to accept the hogwash that we heard from Bob Morgan and his Liberal Democrats , because of course it may be extremely comfortable for him to be acting like a beached dolphin on the shores of Abu Dhabi , but the fact of the matter is , of course , that the Liberal Democrats , with or without the backs of their envelopes and cigarettes packets , are extremely unlikely to be making any national legislation , so they are quite comfortable in being able to observe how others might or might not do it . |
| 19 | I 'm not ashamed to admit that I was encountering the vast majority of the fish on show for the first time . |
| 20 | I know that the message is getting through to gay men , but I 'm not surprised to hear that it 's not getting through to heterosexuals . |
| 21 | I think , as I said before , the pro The idea of Europe , the profile of Europe is important , and although i do n't think I should be campaign , if I win tonight , on things that interest me and do n't interest others , I 'm not afraid to say that I do want to make it , to a degree at least , a genuine European campaign . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm not afraid to admit that I wanted you last night , more than I 've wanted any woman for a long time . ’ |
| 23 | Listeners were not pleased to learn that the Commons sometimes sounded like an undergraduate debating society and so these broadcasts of question time ceased . |
| 24 | Landlords were not pleased to find that their apartment blocks had overnight become the property of the tenants . |
| 25 | As for the Movement , or the Angry Young Men of the 1950s , the intellectual and popular press were not wrong to believe that a new race of novelists ( and others ) had appeared in the first months of the new reign , soon after the death of George VI ; but the name Movement coined by a Spectator journalist in 1954 never seemed likely to fit for long , or Angry Young Men either ; they never met as a group , though they were ( at least for the most part ) acquainted . |
| 26 | With Black Fury Warner Bros had just gone a little too far by even referring to strikes and labour problems at a time of mounting industrial tension but the popular and critical reception to the movie showed that the company were not wrong to believe that they had the technical ability and the actors to make films whose reality would be appreciated . |
| 27 | Zuwaya were not prepared to accept that the law is embodied in a person or office , for then it acquires authority , a hierarchy of instances of control and review . |
| 28 | For example the Select Committee on Overseas Development has recommended the establishment of a Cabinet Committee to coordinate political , trade and aid policies towards the developing world largely because the ODM were not able to disclose that such a Committee ( RD ) already exists . |
| 29 | It was agreed that if it did , the disclaimer would have no effect because the defenders were not able to show that it was fair and reasonable to incorporate it in the contract . |
| 30 | The Commissioners were not surprised to find that the arrangement of the master and the matron of the workhouse not being man and wife had not succeeded , and they concluded that all four should be called on to resign , as ‘ none of these appear fit for their respective offices ’ . |