Example sentences of "not say [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I 'm not sure I mean it 's interest I mean the the Council erm with another the Council looked upon attendances of the things Council do and many people who use the facilities in Harlow will argue we do n't get anything like this where we live and we always find it like that you know it 's that sort of mentality where people in Harlow may or may not say well course you get it in Harlow we expect it it 's just there it just saves we know it 's getting them people to use it but I talk to people I 'm sure people who live in Harlow or the Council to people and Harlow people tend to think well yes yes it 's all with always it 's always there . |
| 2 | Where the jurisdictional fact is framed in open textured subjective terms , as in the above example , that is not possible ; the court can not say openly ‘ we think the circumstances were fit even though you , the Minister , did not . ’ |
| 3 | I 'll not say please And I 'll not |
| 4 | This was that his dad did not say please come back and he did not say that he loved him . |
| 5 | Likewise Kari Børresen notes that ( in this respect unlike Bonaventura ) ‘ Thomas does not say expressly that a priest ought to belong to the male sex because Christ , whom he represents , became incarnate in this sex . ’ |
| 6 | It will be an expensive party , although Disney will not say exactly how much . |
| 7 | He is currently involved in negotiations with the Abingdon and London groups of nurses with a view to providing a forum within the RCN through which nurses in clinical research can maintain contact , but could not say exactly when such a forum might the established . |
| 8 | They may not say exactly or as precisely what the historian meant to say , although this is rare . |
| 9 | 1.18 Usually the onus is on the plaintiff to establish the defendant 's fault , but the plaintiff will not necessarily fail if he can not say exactly how an accident happened . |
| 10 | Thompson does not say here , in terms , that dialectical materialism has its answer , the class struggle carried to the extreme of revolution — unless we are to read ‘ revolutionising practice ’ as implying it , while sounding something less and , therefore , less disturbing . |
| 11 | I will not say that much of this debate has been irrelevant , because that sounds as if I am dismissing what has been said , which I am not , but it is irrelevant in the context of 1993 , because the advent of the new system will answer many of the problems that have been identified . |
| 12 | ‘ I can not say precisely how long the blade was , but I think you will agree that it is legitimate to deduce its length , from a progressive diminution in the width of the wound . |
| 13 | I can not say precisely when I expect him to return , though I should suppose in about a week from now . ’ |
| 14 | He would not say precisely what it was that caused the parting of the ways . |
| 15 | We would do better to accept that we can not say precisely how much of the book dates from this last stage , although there were , no doubt , changes of various kinds , including deletions . |
| 16 | Sara thought , but did not say aloud . |
| 17 | This is a problem that rightfully belongs to the subject of the electrical properties of materials , so I can not say very much about it . |
| 18 | The President , sitting with his feet up beside the coffee table , also did not say much . |
| 19 | ‘ I can not say much on the telephone . |
| 20 | He did not say much when they met and it was always muffled by the lapels of his coat . |
| 21 | She drives me in my car and we do not say much . |
| 22 | Criticisms of the purposes for which the money was raised do not say much about the curia 's actual wealth . |
| 23 | Attendance rates by themselves do not say enough . |
| 24 | Attendance rates by themselves do not say enough . |
| 25 | I can not say more until I have spoken to my solicitor . ’ |
| 26 | POLICE closed an investigation yesterday into the stabbing of fencing company boss Roy Miles — but would not say more . |
| 27 | One wonders whether it does not say more about the worker than about the client . |
| 28 | Accordingly , it is not modesty to say , ‘ I hope I am a Christian , but I can not say more . ’ |
| 29 | But the bishops ' statement does not say so . |
| 30 | The young IBM salesman ( he works for IBM , not the store , although his name badge does not say so ) is more forthcoming on Amstrad . |