Example sentences of "not [vb infin] to say " in BNC.
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| 1 | We do not want to say that one kind of state causes the other kind , but neither does it make much sense to say that they are ‘ parallel ’ or ‘ identical ’ . |
| 2 | I do not want to say that we are going to get rid of everyone , only those who are our enemies . |
| 3 | On the one hand , it is clear that we depend for survival upon our bodies , whereas we may not want to say that God depends upon the world for survival . |
| 4 | Viewed as an ‘ independent robot ’ , I am happy to admit that a particular area of my brain controls my digestive processes and ‘ I ’ do not , but I certainly do not want to say that that brain area is ‘ aware ’ of those processes . |
| 5 | Negative mistakes , they say , arise from boredom with banal material , Controversially , they explore substitutions psychoanalytically , giving examples of cases where children make deviant responses , not because they do not know the original words , but because they do not want to say them . |
| 6 | He does not want to say the words out loud . |
| 7 | No , the Whip does not want to say something to me . |
| 8 | I do not want to say that there has been a huge leap in the past year or so , because that would not true , but there has been a big leap since 1980 . |
| 9 | Again , on a truth-conditional theory of semantics , those meanings can not be captured we would not want to say that B 's assertion in ( ii ) was false if B had simply misidentified A and assumed mistakenly that A was a male superior ( that would make truths relative to whomsoever they are addressed ) . |
| 10 | ‘ We do hope Mr De Klerk gets his mandate but I do not want to say there will be a review of policy in our dealings with his administration . |
| 11 | Until that becomes clear , we would not want to say anything more . ’ |
| 12 | I would not want to say that I could criticise that parent , because I do n't know the background of it . |
| 13 | I would not want to say that I could criticise that parent , because I do n't know the background of it . |
| 14 | Though I 'd not presume to say what is needed . " |
| 15 | In a sense the Advisor did not need to say more , for both her report and the fable of Fred begin to capture the mood of growing up . |
| 16 | It will not do to say , ‘ If the death penalty will save a single life , it is justified . ’ |
| 17 | So it will not do to say that the reason why the Government found it necessary to curtail debate on the Bill was that they felt that there would be massive opposition to it . |
| 18 | She thought she was rather like a mother , making sure a child had eaten before going off to school , did not scruple to say , " Are you sure you 've had enough ? |
| 19 | If , on the other hand , he felt that someone was a really harmful influence , he did not hesitate to say so . |
| 20 | Whoever was on duty would move gently any part of the affected limb , trying as they did so to persuade Jimbo that now the pain was gone he might — I did not dare to say ‘ would ’ — be free soon to walk normally . |
| 21 | Cricket can be boring when Botham behaves , and snooker needs Alex Higgins even if it does not like to say so . |
| 22 | Whether this is the true one I would not like to say but in this version the ‘ trains wipe tapes ’ hypothesis was the inspired explanation of a recording engineer who , through an operational error , had failed to record anything in the first place ! |
| 23 | Linguists do not like to say that Standard English is ‘ superior ’ to other dialects , because all dialects have their own richness , their own specific identity . |
| 24 | And left-wing educationalists do not like to say that the Standard English spoken by the middle classes is superior to working-class speech . |
| 25 | But I do not like to say much about Islay ; let us therefore remount our primitive carriage . |
| 26 | But I do not like to say much about Islay ; let us therefore remount our primitive carriage . |
| 27 | I did not like to say no . |
| 28 | As many of us have mixed backgrounds I would not like to say that ethnic reasons are the main reasons for tabling this motion . |
| 29 | But Det Chief Supt Barry Stewart , head of Northumbria CID , said : ‘ We are treating the incident as a crime but I would not like to say what the nature of the crime is at this stage . ’ |
| 30 | Nutty could not begin to say , amongst the so obvious shortcomings : too big , too old , too nervous , too dull , too run-down , too absolutely bloody hopeless , like the team itself . |