Example sentences of "[am/are] not [verb] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am not urging that all observation statements should be discarded because they are fallible . |
| 2 | I am not suggesting that white children or adolescents are generally as good at speaking Creole as black children . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I am not saying that that link is not necessary or will not be necessary at some time in the future , but the priority must be to serve the passengers who are paying now . |
| 7 | I am not saying that natural energy flows do not exist , but to detect them alongside the multitude of artificial energy sources , and the thought forms of everyone who has visited or passed through the site , is likely to be confusing , to say the least . |
| 8 | In saying that the scientific/industrial paradigm is giving way and that something new is taking its place , we are not suggesting that economic activity will cease . |
| 9 | We are not assuming that refining margins will improve significantly in the near future . |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | We are not to know that new methods of correlation will not he developed ( as spores , hystrichospheres , etc. , have been developed in recent years ) to correlate the least promising.looking formations , Ultimately perhaps we shall have a little black box into which we only have to pop our rock specimen for its age to he read automatically on a dial . |
| 12 | We are not claiming that personal leadership is all important but rather that Mrs Thatcher 's personality and policies enabled her to take advantage of the constellation of events and ideas . |
| 13 | It is not We 're not proposing that these sites should be allocated for development . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ? |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Obviously I 'm not saying that political issues should not be debated . |
| 20 | I 'm not saying that any sort of program crash is forgivable . |