Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] not [vb infin] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | I believe that the new generation of " 16 bit " machines ( such as the ACT Sirius 1 ) will prove to be well capable of meeting these demands If I may be permitted one small advertisement , I do not expect it to be long before I can fulfil my objective of promoting the use of micros in personnel through the marketing of systems developed specifically for this field . |
| 2 | I do not mean it in any ideological sense or historical sense or to be provocative but it 's very , it 's with very deep feelings that I speak to you today because you may not understand it but for me , after thirty three years in exile I was able to return to South Africa in nineteen ninety one and one of the first activities to which I was invited was the annual meeting of Cosatu And so when we say comrades in that sense , and thank you as comrades we mean it as comrades in arms . |
| 3 | There is a significant difference , and I do not feel it is only a class and an age difference , between the spare dignity of the oath Marco has learned from his early years and the oath which the Rat has devised as part of the game he has created for his Club : |
| 4 | I do not feel it necessary to add anything about the numerous authorities referred to in the learned arguments addressed to us , because the decision turns on a question of fact , whether the consideration for the promise is proved as pleaded . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , it is cold and I do not want it . |
| 6 | I do not want it and I do not understand it . |
| 7 | That may be the competitive advantage that the hon. Gentleman wants for his constituents , but I do not want it for mine . |
| 8 | I have never completely resolved my own dilemma , for I do not think it has a simple resolution . |
| 9 | I have never heard this case made in anything like the explicit fashion in which I have just outlined it , and I do not think it ever would be publicly made . |
| 10 | I do not think it can be said that the manner of death is any more horrific than it used to be ( although it may well be different ) but it may be that the way of reporting someone 's death has radically changed and that this has brought its own problems . |
| 11 | Well , I am shocked that such things can be published , I do not think it is right . |
| 12 | The issue is philosophical , but it is so central to the analysis of behaviour that I do not think it can be avoided . |
| 13 | But I do not think it is this threat alone which explains the sick feeling of dread — rather like the feeling of a man who knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight — which clouds the prospect of a Labour victory . |
| 14 | I do not think it can be claimed that they opened up new territory ( writings by Dorothy Heathcote and others in the 1970s were concerned with a level of sophistication in drama teaching which the team seemed not to be able to articulate ) , but in terms of giving some sense of order to the basic functioning of drama the publication deserves to be seen as an important landmark . |
| 15 | If anything happens I do not think it will be bad . |
| 16 | For I do not think it possible to study philosophy profitably without entering fairly deeply into the history of the subject , and for this there is not time at school , nor could it be a subject that would interest more than a very few pupils . |
| 17 | I can not speak for other hypnotherapists , but for myself I do not think it is a good idea . |
| 18 | I do not think it is complacent or smug ; one feels it has been worked for . |
| 19 | I do not think it wrong for a man to open his eyes , look around him and consider that there might be other roads upon which to travel . ’ |
| 20 | I do not think it had occurred to anybody in court at this time that Waddell 's conviction would be anything but a foregone conclusion . |
| 21 | He gives Sting away at III , 204 , keeping an orc-blade but saying ‘ I do not think it will be my part to strike any blow again . ’ |
| 22 | But I do not think it 'll be a good idea . ’ |
| 23 | However , I do not think it is a particularly appropriate model of human social interactions , for two reasons . |
| 24 | In the light of all this , I do not think it premature to put forward an evolutionary scenario for natural language . |
| 25 | I do not think it fair that only two , or any ad hoc number , should be allowed to participate . |
| 26 | I take the view that , having regard to the recitals and to the terms of the order , one can read into the order itself the element of compromise , but again I do not think it is important for the decision of this case ; because the compromise , if compromise it was , was between the plaintiffs and Jack Bernardout , and I do not think it enures for the benefit of Joseph Bernardout , the defendant in these proceedings . |
| 27 | I take the view that , having regard to the recitals and to the terms of the order , one can read into the order itself the element of compromise , but again I do not think it is important for the decision of this case ; because the compromise , if compromise it was , was between the plaintiffs and Jack Bernardout , and I do not think it enures for the benefit of Joseph Bernardout , the defendant in these proceedings . |
| 28 | I do not think it would be helpful to try to define the point at which the court should be prepared to disregard the 16- or 17-year-old child 's wishes to refuse medical treatment . |
| 29 | That seems to me to be a good argument for saying that in the ordinary way the justices ought not to make an order for no contact between the parent and the child , but I do not think it is a satisfactory argument in the interpretation of section 34(2) and ( 3 ) . |
| 30 | ‘ I do not think it necessary to enter upon the technicalities of autrefois convict . |