Example sentences of "[am/are] not [verb] that [adj] [noun] " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | We are not assuming that refining margins will improve significantly in the near future . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Obviously I 'm not saying that political issues should not be debated . |