Example sentences of "[be] not [v-ing] that [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am not suggesting that white children or adolescents are generally as good at speaking Creole as black children . |
| 2 | I am not arguing that moral rights get their sole authority from contiguous laws , although they can , but rather that the existence of such laws , having been passed in a deliberative and ultimately democratic manner and being constantly under test by the legislature , is evidence that these types of transaction are important enough for the maintenance of civilised life as to require such formal recognition . |
| 3 | Obviously I am not saying that all policemen are racist but there seems to me to be enough evidence for a nationwide enquiry into such harassment to be held . |
| 4 | We are not assuming that refining margins will improve significantly in the near future . |
| 5 | but erm , I , I thought it was both yours and Mr contention that through the doctoring of extensible authority and by , because of that doctoring your clients are not alleging that any contracts of insurance or re-insurance simply made on their behalf is unenforceable |
| 6 | It is not We 're not proposing that these sites should be allocated for development . |
| 7 | We 're not saying , as you well know from my representations , we 're not saying that these sites should be allocated for development now either in total or or in part , unless the Inspector feels that there is a shortage of housing land , that he needs to be looking for additional sites . |
| 8 | But I return to the point I make here , Mr , we 're not saying that these sites should be allocated for development now , unless the Inspector . |
| 9 | Oh , I 'm not suggesting that these groups , if they come together and mix will cause problems , I 'm suggesting that if there is only one kind of person that 's attracted to a particular site and that type of person happens to be socially irresponsible , then then you 're it 's a recipe for disaster , is n't it ? |
| 10 | Now I 'm not saying that two wrongs make a right , and the fact that women have had to put up with this means than men just have to put up with it in their turn . |
| 11 | I 'm not saying that trendy clothes make a better person , possibly the reverse is true , but it 's the whole spectrum of youth culture . |
| 12 | Obviously I 'm not saying that political issues should not be debated . |
| 13 | In S/Z Barthes is not suggesting that literary texts implicitly refer to some transcendent model : literary texts can only cross-refer to each other . |
| 14 | In the , in the current Middle East erm so this pattern certainly applies to Judaism , not to all religions , he 's not saying that all religions have to undergo persecution in order to as it were flourish , but some religions do and perhaps the characteristic Judaism or at least this kind of monotheism is these kind of religions tend to be intolerant and single-mindedly , tend to say that we know the truth , everybody else is wrong and consequently they tend to persecute others and get persecuted and this leads to these periods of suppression , but there 's a tendency for this kind of return of repress just as Mike was saying , his very brilliant analogy he suggested the French Revolution when the students put the barricade up in the same place or so the erm Freud 's idea is that the things that happened in that first traumatic period back in Ancient Egypt and for example erm he said this is why the modern erm Jews insist on circumcision because the Ancient Egyptians did and this is , this is correct . |
| 15 | Hardaker certainly is n't suggesting that academic qualifications should supersede spiritual criteria , but he insists that intellect and leadership are also important attributes in serving God properly . |