Example sentences of "not [verb] what [is] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 Most older people do not need what is interestingly referred to as ‘ warden-controlled accommodation ’ , although they seldom object to this extra facility .
2 Sadly , the city can not do what is most needed : join its suburban neighbours in a regional government that does away with redundancies and evens out the huge inequities in school financing and municipal services .
3 This does not follow what is generally accepted as good industrial/commercial practice .
4 But from his identifying a person 's body as it appears to that person with that person 's ‘ introspected self ’ , it would seem that Mace can not mean what is ordinarily meant by the former phrase .
5 Weekly budgets also do n't describe what is n't bought — a television licence , a holiday , a night out , trips to the swimming baths , roller skates , the Radio Times , a pound of plums .
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