Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [that] it is " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether one accepts that view or not — and I do not think that it is valid in its simple form ( see Fine and Harris ( 1985 ) ) — it is a powerful one ; in that context , the fact that the proportion of foreign assets in UK pension funds ' total investments has risen is a mark of the power that the post-1979 boom in the City 's foreign investment has had . |
| 2 | I do not think that it is fanciful to suggest that public confidence in the administration of justice is undermined by such assertions from a powerful interest group . |
| 3 | I do not think that it is necessary to refer to all of those provisions because they really do not take the matter any further . |
| 4 | If one decides to give away £5m to encourage the arts , I do not think that it is a very sensible way to give it to my noble friend Lord Archer , who is a very rich man already , and who gets £6,000 a year out of the pockets of taxpayers who are very much poorer than he is . ’ |
| 5 | The hon. Lady persists — I do not think that it is because she does not understand — in making the bogus comparison between in-patient and out-patient waits now and in 1979 . |
| 6 | Given my hon. Friend 's well-known commitment to productivity , efficiency and careful spending of money in the public sector , I am surprised by her suggestion and I do not think that it is tremendously sensible . |
| 7 | I do not think that it is right for the hon. Lady to knock the national health service in that way . |
| 8 | I do not think that it is a matter for discussion at the special Security Council meeting next week ; it is certainly a matter which remains on our agenda . |
| 9 | I do not think that it is wisdom that is required but if I can do anything , I will . |
| 10 | I do not think that it is necessary to provide any more parliamentary time for that . |
| 11 | The right hon. Member for Birmingham , Sparkbrook ( Mr. Hattersley ) says that it will be at £36,000 , but the right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Monklands , East ( Mr. Smith ) will not tell us and says that he does not think that it is necessary to say so . |
| 12 | I do not think that it is possible to change that definition . |
| 13 | That is an interesting literary distinction , but I do not think that it is much more than that . |
| 14 | of my households are single-person households — I do not think that it is quite that high — I shall make absolutely certain that every one knows the Labour party 's policy for them . |
| 15 | I do not think that it is in any way insulting to say that the epithet , ’ Clyde-built ’ , which was a badge of quality in the last century , was getting somewhat tarnished during the post-war years . |
| 16 | I do not think that it is necessary for me to send for the chairmen of Back-Bench committees . |
| 17 | The Monopolies and Mergers Commission did not allow the 1986 bid to proceed and rejected GEC 's claims arguing that : ‘ We do not consider that it is possible in the field of electronics to establish a direct link between company size and competitive performance ’ . |
| 18 | These trends might of course represent the beginning of a change in progress , but if this is so , it is not yet established as a pattern that we can show by our methods as regular , and so we can not demonstrate that it is a change . |
| 19 | At present , Josephson is unable to offer an explanation of psychic energy and its effects but he does not doubt that it is ‘ positive , a genuine phenomenon ’ . |
| 20 | So man 's greatness comes from knowing that he is wretched , for a tree does not know that it is wretched . |
| 21 | ( b ) Provided the the kind of damage is reasonably foreseeable , it does not matter that it is more extensive than could have been foreseen . |
| 22 | Should this not be taken into account , and does it not appear that it is not taken into account in the voluntary code ? |
| 23 | So simply making up the calcium that astronauts excrete may not ensure that it is laid down properly in new bone . |
| 24 | These cortical consequences of social evolution provide the basis for the acquisition of some sort of superego , even if they can not ensure that it is a rational , mature and adaptive one . |
| 25 | Be very clear , he wrote : I do not feel that it is time and thought wasted because the end result is less than I had hoped . |
| 26 | In order to do so I do not feel that it is necessary to ‘ prove ’ the existence of God in the sense of demonstrating with mathematical certainty that He exists . |
| 27 | You should not feel that it is presumptuous to ask . |
| 28 | We just do not feel that it is appropriate that this whole area should now be run from London . |
| 29 | We do not believe that it is necessary to placate God in such a way . |
| 30 | I do not believe that it is entirely their fault , because they almost certainly have producers and controllers who tell them what they may or may not discuss . |