Example sentences of "[not/n't] think the " in BNC.

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1 Mr Kidd said that he did not think the UK Government would follow suit , but believed pressure from a more demanding American market could encourage British hotels to upgrade their precautions beyond the legal minimum .
2 Pannell Kerr Forster senior management consultant Nick van Marken said he did not think the changes would result in a dramatic increase in hotels .
3 Ogrizovic came out , checked back , but in retreat still did not think the chip would float in .
4 But police do not think the arson attack was a deliberate attempt to put out lights in the town so that the looting could take place .
5 I do not think the situation arises at the moment outside these two counties .
6 Nor did it impress the Arab states , which pointed out that if Israel was able to absorb hundreds of thousands of Jews it could certainly absorb more than 100,000 Palestinian returnees ; or the United States , which did not think the Israeli offer ‘ provide[d] a suitable basis for contributing to solution of Arab refugee question . ’
7 Personally , I do not think the number of entries that are made at South African shows justify champion classes .
8 When Pat Arrowsmith gave out similar anti-war material to British troops , this time related to Northern Ireland , the justices before whom she appeared acquitted her because they did not think the publication to be ‘ insulting ’ .
9 Gedge does not think the absence of Solowka and Gregory was of real importance .
10 Dr Jean Coope , in Menopause , advises : ‘ You may not think the stranger is the perfect son or daughter-in-law , but the chances are that your children know who will suit them better than you do , and the sooner you accept this fact , the happier your family will be . ’
11 Television is a very evangelical medium and I do not think the Church of England can afford to or wants to compete with the evangelical churches .
12 The 17-year-old boy who fired the gun admitted causing Nicola grievous bodily harm at Wakefield juvenile court but said he did not think the gun was loaded .
13 Tolkien himself did not think the dark would conquer .
14 Mr Speed , who lives alone , said he did not think the Chancellor 's general taxation measures would have a serious affect on his standard of living — but the chances of finding work had not improved either .
15 ONE in three does not think the market-style NHS is necessary .
16 You may not think the end result worth it , but there are an awful lot of balls to be kept in the air and some fairly nasty consequences if any should accidentally hit the ground .
17 The Annan Committee disliked this arrangement , for even the local newspaper publishers ' association itself did not think the amount of advertising likely to go to ILR was great enough to be a threat .
18 A survey of more than 1,000 employees found that 84 per cent do not think the need to look after a loved one will ever affect them .
19 But do you not think the life of the Thirties , the daily life , was much more terrible ?
20 As always , he did not think the lectures successful although he had tried to avoid all social engagements in February when he was working on them , he had still been distracted by rehearsals for The Family Reunion .
21 He might have said that because he did not think the interview/s with W took the Crown 's case any further .
22 Mr. Tinker , the proprietor of Samuel Saye House gave evidence that , at the time the deceased left the house to go to hospital , i.e. , 18 March 1986 , he did not think the deceased was ‘ capable of making a sound will . ’
23 I would respectfully agree , save that , for the reasons I have given , I do not think the case would come within paragraph ( d ) .
24 We do not think the criterion can be put any better or more clearly than it is put in R.S.C. , Ord. 62 , r. 12(2) and would hold that , on the true construction of the 18 February 1985 mortgage , the defendants are entitled to be paid or to retain out of the mortgaged property all their actual costs , charges and expenses ( including the receivers ' remuneration ) except in so far they are of an unreasonable amount or have been unreasonably incurred and with any doubts as to whether the costs have been reasonably incurred or are reasonable in amount being resolved in favour of the defendants .
25 ( c ) I do not think the Engdiv case , 1990 S.L.T. 617 assists Mr. Beazley , since both the pursuers seeking contribution and the defenders resisting it were parties to the building contract at issue in the case , so that it was difficult to resist the submission that the claim for contribution in that case was in a matter relating to a contract .
26 For the reasons which I have given above I do not think the court in Reg. v. Philippou were justified in reconciling Morris with Lawrence , but they were correct in following Attorney-General 's Reference ( No. 2 of 1982 ) and could have reached their conclusion without relying on Lawrence .
27 I do not think the compulsion to write about foreign places can be very closely compared to a painter 's sensuous delight in new light , new forms , new colours , Monet seeing the Cap d'Antibes in blue and rose , Turner seeing the bright watery Venetian light in Venice , Gauguin in Tahiti .
28 I am not ignoring that it may be said that this in one sense is proving idem per idem , but none the less I do not think the fact can be ignored .
29 You can not think the calf away : man and beast are integrated into one whole ; and there is an intimacy and charm , reached partly by a slight shift off centre of the man 's head , a slight tilt of the animal 's .
30 She did not think the masks were nice toys for young children .
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