Example sentences of "[vb -s] not [verb] [verb] is " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even allowing that man 's capacity to overlook what he does not want to see is almost unlimited , the folk of this age can hardly have failed to observe that new law was being made all the time . |
| 2 | The child who does not learn to ask is seriously impaired in later life . |
| 3 | What the hon. Gentleman does not seem to understand is that one can have a progressive system with two rates . |
| 4 | John Smith , the shadow Chancellor , said last night : ‘ What he does n't seem to realise is that interest rates mean that it will be much harder for industry to get on its feet to help us overcome the balance of payments deficit . |
| 5 | What Mr Patten does n't seem to realise is that most seven to 11-year-old children — and I do n't mean his own privileged daughter Mary Claire — need to be eased and teased into acquiring a reading habit . |
| 6 | One thing Mum does n't seem to forget is hymns . |
| 7 | What he does n't seem to know is that Albie had been talking to Carmichael . |