Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] the [noun sg] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can not evade the fact that we are cultural Americans , dreaming American dreams . ’ |
| 2 | Who has the property rights determines who must compensate whom , but it does not affect the quantity that the bargain will determine . |
| 3 | Furthermore , bearing in mind the reservations about changes in different varieties that I expressed in section 5.2 above , the early date suggested here for the loss of the velar fricative does not affect the fact that there are dialects of English ( in Lowland Scotland ) which have not yet lost the fricative . |
| 4 | Every now and again you will not make the progress that you anticipate . |
| 5 | Leapor does not make the case that women are always unhappy in marriage . |
| 6 | This very brief review of about ten conservation programmes can not make the case that all national policies fail . |
| 7 | ‘ Meaning ’ atheists do not make the claim that language about God is incommunicable either — in their case because they do not regard it as emanating from a philosophical No Go area labelled ‘ metaphysics ’ that is pronounced to be beyond the bounds of sense . |
| 8 | It is theories which tell us what the world is like and we can not make the recourse that empiricist accounts of theory wish to do , to check our theories against a world conceived independently of theories . |
| 9 | It is a pity that the Prime Minister did not answer the question that I asked . |
| 10 | The problem with this explanation is that it does not explain the growth that has occurred outside the crisis periods . |
| 11 | Appropriate intravenous antibiotic treatment should also be given , but this alone will not neutralise the toxin that has already been produced and absorbed into the circulation . |
| 12 | I do not disregard the possibility that some rituals in some societies do indeed perform such a function , but this interpretation would be meaningful only if the members of those societies could be shown in their various ideas and practices — in particular those concerning personhood — to endorse such an interpretation . |
| 13 | Can people who read it believe it to be objective and thorough when those who prepared it did not consult the agency that has the statutory responsibility for preparing flood prevention plans and for carrying out works to prevent flooding ? |
| 14 | Between 1692 and 1747 the British had defeated the French at sea a number of times , but these battles could not eliminate the possibility that the French fleet would come out of port at a time of its own choosing and assist attacks on British colonies or an invasion of the British Isles . |
| 15 | In Ajdabiya Zuwaya did not consider the possibility that they might need to sink their differences with the Magharba in order to confront a common enemy . |
| 16 | ‘ It will no doubt be in only the rare instance that a man does not consider the possibility that the woman is not consenting , and yet does not actually believe that she is . |
| 17 | But you do not consider the possibility that some may actually enjoy the view from atop a highrise . |
| 18 | That 's a reality , and I do n't see why this office should not consider the fact that they may have to get involved in that . |
| 19 | Even the wars and internal reforms of Peter I , bitterly unpopular as they were with great masses of his people , could not eradicate the feeling that the Tsar was , in some ultimate sense , the father and protector of the ordinary Russian . |
| 20 | He did not need the money that he earned as a doctor . |
| 21 | Further , the salesperson who does not respect the fact that the buyer is likely to be a busy person , with many demands on his time , may cause irritation on the part of the buyer . |
| 22 | ‘ To accuse him of failure because your own ego can not survive the knowledge that a man does not want you ? ’ |
| 23 | Alas , the brief popularity of this idea could not survive the demonstration that long-term memories persisted even if the total electrical activity of the brain was disrupted , by epileptic fits or electroconvulsive shock , for instance , or was brought virtually to zero by coma or concussion . |
| 24 | What if the multiple choice allowed in the questionnaire does not include the answer that the respondent wants to give ? |
| 25 | WORDS and pictures can not describe the disaster that is unfolding in former Yugoslavia . |
| 26 | ‘ We can not neglect the possibility that current levels of interest rates may challenge the assumptions underlying some of this lending , ’ he told the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors in Paris . |
| 27 | In considering whether these reasons are strong enough , we should not neglect the fact that some offences of manslaughter lie well above the lower boundaries of liability and fall little short of murder . |
| 28 | The prevalence of poverty among this group remains very high , although we should not neglect the fact that there are a minority of affluent elderly . |
| 29 | Later writers , even those sympathetic to Antal 's thesis , have admitted that the argument about class conflict in the period was exaggerated , but this does not exclude the possibility that an equally unexpected approach may not throw light on some apparently exhausted topic . |
| 30 | Alterations in diet and even hygiene might well produce indigestion and ‘ traveller 's tummy ’ , but this does not exclude the possibility that the time-zone transition produces similar or additional changes . |