Example sentences of "[pers pn] be not suggest that " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am not suggesting that we should be completely sceptical about the value of introspection . |
| 2 | Of course , the success of this lesson has to do with more than structure ( indeed , I am not suggesting that structure is all a teacher needs to know about ! ) . |
| 3 | I am not suggesting that the differences in the foundations do not lead to differences in practice . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 : |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Of course , I am not suggesting that women should give in to biology ( perish the thought ) , but that PMS is not quite the pathological state that a few health experts would appear to be suggesting . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I am not suggesting that you throw extravagant dinner parties every night when I advocate entertaining . |
| 11 | I am not suggesting that he arrives at the meaning of Truth as the result of philosophical or metaphysical speculation in a vacuum . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I am not suggesting that on occasions it is not totally appropriate to go and help someone — children particularly appreciate a parent 's involvement in a variety of projects . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I am not suggesting that I was a ‘ truly creative intellect ’ — merely that I was denied the opportunity to find out whether I could achieve any such position , and this was an omission I felt very keenly . |
| 17 | ‘ My dear Constance , I am not suggesting that you should no longer visit me . |
| 18 | The notion of difference of level between quite different programming languages can equally well be expressed within a single language : at a single level of language , say of the programming language LISP , one normally defines a function in terms of sub-functions , so that I might for example write a function WALK(x) ( where x ranges over walkers ) whose sub-functions ( to be executed in order ) might be some form of LIFT-RIGHT-LEG ; FLEX-RIGHT-FOOT ; and so on ( I am not suggesting that sequence would be even remotely plausible in fact ) . |
| 19 | In doing so I am not suggesting that I am delineating some objective essence of classicism . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | I am not suggesting that all such considerations are rationally run through and weighed up on every occasion ; they are too familiar to require it . |
| 22 | In indicating a preference for the Australian approach , I am not suggesting that the scales need be evenly balanced . |
| 23 | In using Brooke-Rose 's discussion of poetic metaphor as the basis for an analysis of how this figure works in novels she wrote in the 1960s , I am not suggesting that there is a necessary relation , historical or logical , between them . |
| 24 | I am not suggesting that you take this model too seriously . |
| 25 | It 's you making the decisions and doing the work and although I am not suggesting that you will catch twice as many pike , you will certainly catch some which a fast surface retrieve would have missed . |
| 26 | I am not suggesting that white children or adolescents are generally as good at speaking Creole as black children . |
| 27 | I am not suggesting that Scotland has ‘ lost out ’ over the past 13 years from the fact that there was only one fund based in London . |
| 28 | I am not suggesting that any horse should be allowed to indicate where HE wants to go , but patient , firm and strong riding will build up confidence and obedience more than a big stick and spurs . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | I 'm not suggesting that legislators woke up one morning and said : ‘ We must abolish slavery ! ’ or ‘ Bear baiting must cease ! ’ , but for the position to have changed from tacit acceptance to wholesale condemnation , there must have been a fulcrum point when the arguments tipped decidedly in one direction . |