Example sentences of "i [vb mod] not [verb] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I should not think that Mr Kinnock would have the same need for such structures . ’ |
| 2 | Whilst accepting that ‘ inclination ’ was absent I could not agree that blacks lacked the intellect to do well at school and my work was , in a way , intended to lay bare as false such assumptions . |
| 3 | Nevertheless I could not believe that Parliament intended such a construction because it will produce what I regard as such unfair and absurd results . |
| 4 | And I would not feel that Kenneth would ge could get near to any one of us . |
| 5 | I would not pray that prayer if I was going to continue to hold something against someone . |
| 6 | I shall not fail that rendezvous . |
| 7 | Yet I can not feel that Adam was to blame . |
| 8 | I can not think that Taggy would have been obliged to turn away her admirers otherwise . ’ |
| 9 | I can not pretend that Mr James 's book attains the same degree of enlightenment . |
| 10 | When pressed by journalists for an assurance that Koko is Nigeria 's only dump , the irritated Minister for Works and Housing snaps , ‘ I can not confirm that Koko is the only dump . |
| 11 | Much as I regard them as a social nuisance on a par with the Orange Walk and invented by the devil to prevent churchgoers getting to church on time , I can not claim that marathons have ( yet ) been proved to kill enough people to justify banning them . |
| 12 | I can not agree that women are the inferior of men . |
| 13 | Mr Clarke said later that no decision had been taken to do away with the pay formula , but he added : ‘ However I can not agree that firefighters should be an exception to the Government 's policy that in the current pay round the rises of all public sector employees should not exceed 1.5 per cent and that there could not be any catching up settlement thereafter . ’ |
| 14 | Both books talk of this power as being abnormal , but I can not believe that people have the power to just FLEX and move an object . |
| 15 | I can not say that Oldham ‘ dominated ’ the last 20 mins . |
| 16 | In fact , I can not see that sound symbolism can be discussed in any safe and effective manner without a basic knowledge of the articulatory or acoustic features of sounds . |
| 17 | It will be obvious by now that my account of the emergence of black sportsmen runs contrary to such views and I can not accept that blacks are ‘ made for physical things ’ any more than I can that their continued failure in more formal academic realms is based on inadequate intellectual resources . |