Example sentences of "[pron] that [verb] not " in BNC.

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1 Genscher recalled that the decision embodied in the treaty was a difficult one for all Germans , particularly the millions who had been expelled from their homes in the area annexed to Poland , but that the treaty surrendered nothing that had not been lost long ago .
2 It may not make you very popular with the queue behind you in the post office , but if it helps you that does not matter .
3 for those of you that did not see the match the situation looked kind of like this :
4 There was absolutely no way of getting from Wandsworth to Wanley except by car , or none that did not involve at least four methods of public transport .
5 The idea of touching people in the crowd or letting people in the crowd touch him was something that had not occurred to him , but to be beautiful and that remote — you 've got to get a crowd to touch him because that was what really got them wild .
6 The court astonished everybody by deciding that it could not rule on the legality or otherwise of something that had not happened yet .
7 Cave later discovered that the box of parts had not been opened at all ; another conversation premised on something that had not occurred , designed to raise both the bidding and the temperature , and a chimera .
8 On December 7th too , when the matter was raised at a meeting of the President and principals , the operation was presented by McFarlane as essentially prospective , something that had not happened yet ; but the purpose of the meeting was also to justify policy after the fact .
9 When biologists studying these birds added extra shade to some territories , the birds exhibited something that had not been seen in this species before ; trigamy , males with three mates .
10 This was something that had not occurred to him .
11 And that 's something that does not happen in the real world . ’
12 If the baby needs to go on taking medicines or vitamins , ask the doctor to prescribe something that does not contain any colouring or other unnecessary ingredients .
13 Still , there 's nothing secretive or lacking in discussion on the new laws in operation — and how refreshing to mention something that does not invoke the subject of money .
14 After all , paying for something that does not work is presumably more likely to produce frustration than receiving the same ineffective care ‘ free ’ .
15 There are many cases where bride and groom have the same postal address at the time of marriage something that does not indicate premarital living together , quite unusual among the respectable working class of Edinburgh at the time .
16 So , while you may well have some trait or peculiarity about her that will give her a mark of distinction , this must be something that does not disqualify her from maximum general sympathy .
17 Something that 's not been tried before .
18 Horses communicate by sound , sight , smell , body language , touch , and also by extra-sensory perception — the learning of something that has not been transmitted by the other senses .
19 Something that has not been illustrated in Collectair in the past is the printed and illustrated match-slip ( or book-matches ) .
20 The crowd always wanted the challenger to win , something that did not happen too often , because I remember the timing of the rounds appeared to be fixed to the advantage of the resident boxer .
21 During his session with the unfortunate staff at Caterer and Hotel Keeper he was always wheezing with laughter at something that did not really seem to warrant it .
22 In order to talk about something that did not have to do with fondling and stroking she spoke of the garments .
23 The case against ITV had initially to be made against something that did not yet exist .
24 Something to account for her needing to get into the Workshops , but something that did not give away the Beastline people 's plans to attack Tara ?
25 What her reception would be she feared to imagine , and as she drew near to the Mohaka River bridge she became filled with apprehension because , now that she came to think of it , she realised she was poking her nose into something that did not even remotely concern her .
26 Its actions belied Bush 's declaration on Nov. 15 that he preferred to hold this course than to do something that did not work .
27 To read a complex spreadsheet was something that required not a little experience , but these days , it 's the presentation and ease of use of the spreadsheet that is being sold .
28 This means , among other things , that the electoral system should be one that does not effectively disenfranchise large sections of the citizenry , while at the same time it must produce a government that will be both effective and accountable .
29 Finally , from within psychoanalytical criticism but from outside the Anglo-American paradigm , Gertrud Koch has drawn attention to a different theorisation of the gaze , one that does not link it to voyeuristic ( peeping through the keyhole ) pleasure but rather to the earlier , pre-symbolic stage in which the small child gazes openly at the world and at its mother : ‘ We may in fact owe the invention of the camera not to the keyhole but to the baby-carriage ’ .
30 SPAR uses a variant of Crain & Steedman 's ( 1985 ) ‘ principle of referential success ’ , which states that a reading that succeeds in referring to an entity already established in the hearer 's model of the domain of discourse is favoured over one that does not .
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