Example sentences of "but i [verb] not [vb infin] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I do not regard these factors as justifying sweeping away the law which for so long has regulated the conduct of charitable corporations . |
| 2 | We have set up a Review Group but I do not think all action can wait on its recommendations . |
| 3 | Mr Sproat was not , he insisted , against the scheme from any reasons of philistinism , ‘ but I do not think this is the best way to encourage authors . |
| 4 | But I do not think any traveller has ever been in a worse situation than I was then . |
| 5 | — Clearly the words ‘ Now I am seeing this as apex ’ can not so far mean anything to a learner who has only just met the concepts of apex , base and so on — But I do not mean this as empirical proposition . |
| 6 | ‘ It is not usual in August , this I know , ’ fiercely , ‘ but I do not compose this menu . |
| 7 | But I do not put much weight on this second ground , for great as may be the importance of putting out a fire , it is not sufficiently great to justify the driver in leaving a trail of destruction behind him . ’ |
| 8 | In his very helpful and full submissions Mr. Lester has pointed out that there is no evidence of practical difficulties in the jurisdictions where relaxations of this kind have already been allowed , but I do not consider that , full as these researches have been , they justify the view that no substantial increase resulted in the cost of litigation as a result of these relaxations , and , in any event , the Parliamentary processes in these jurisdictions are different in quite material respects from those in the United Kingdom . |
| 9 | This fight has been an expensive business for me personally , but I do not mind that . |
| 10 | But I do not believe that one goes as far as going to the figure that the County Council is proposing . |
| 11 | He wanted it to be an apple charlotte , but I did not want another in fiction after that in Howards End . |
| 12 | I was n't very sympathetic , but I did not strike any blows to her face , ’ said Mrs Swales . |
| 13 | Like in the Trossachs , the mountain bikes leave their marks but I did not meet any . |
| 14 | Mother actually calls me Lisa but I did not think that name appropriate to this strange meeting and anyway I have never liked it . |
| 15 | John Conway , a mathematician at Cambridge University , had already developed a similar but more poetic notation but I did not see this until the summer of 1979 . |
| 16 | Nobody had taken any notice of me so far , but I did not mind that . |
| 17 | I was not my parents ' child , but I did not know that then . |
| 18 | This , of course , was nothing to be ashamed of , but I did not realize that at the time . |