Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] that [pron] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 The fools , not to see that what they madly desire would be such a calamity to them as no hands but their own could bring upon them . ’
2 He will be criminally liable unless he was so insane as either ‘ not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing ’ , or ‘ not to know that what he was doing was against the law ’ .
3 Do you not know that what you belittle by the name tree is but the mere four-dimensional analogue of a whole multidimensional universe which — no , I can see you do not .
4 In the case of a defendant who uses words , a person can hardly fail to be aware of what he is saying , although he may possibly not know that what he is displaying ( if it be a book ) contains offensive material of which others are aware but he is not .
5 I do not believe that what we have heard today represents a settled statement of policy , or that it is founded upon solid conviction .
6 These unusual circumstances , and cases of corrupt diversion of corporate assets aside , however , it will in general be very difficult to demonstrate that the directors did not believe that what they were doing would maximise profits , because of the often insuperable problem of distinguishing between means and ends that this entails .
7 She can not believe that what she thinks about this and that has any value , because she has thought it .
8 to me that it would be perverse of us to fall into the trap if we were to do so of endorsing Policy E two and not know that what we were endorsing was in fact what the Secretary of State specifically rejected on the grounds perhaps that it was unduly restricted or detailed or inappropriate for some of those other reasons that are set out in the earlier part of that notice of approval .
9 So I hope I 've not complicated that I I always find it 's helpful to say this about this speaker this because no other speaker no speaker is here with a .
10 I 'm not saying that what I 'm saying is that that we must all have at the back of our minds a a sort of considered opinion of what 's
11 It 's non-examinable , but that does not mean that what you are taught here is not worthwhile !
12 The Lords held that the boys were guilty even though they did not realise that what they were doing might harm others .
13 If that is so , the defendant can not be convicted if he raises doubts as to whether or not he realised that the person with whom he was dealing was a policeman , or that he did not realise that what he was doing would make the task of the policeman more difficult .
14 In Parmenter the accused confessed to causing injuries to his three-month-old son but said that he did not realise that what he was doing would injure him .
15 That 's not to say that I I believe that the villages er some of the villages are incapable of of .
16 ‘ I know you mean well , but , try as I might , I ca n't think that what you are suggesting would be right — not for either of us .
17 Unlike Mr I have always found fox hunting distasteful , I have never participated in it , I have never followed it and I do n't think that I I ever want to and er , I have I am not convinced by either economic or the put forward in its favour .
18 You can only , you , you would n't know that it you were hearing a C to a C , you would n't know you were actually hearing a diminished second would you ?
19 I just think I just think it 's quite important for us all to realize I did a , when I used to do a similar job to this it took me a long time before I realized that the customer , you know on the phone does n't know that your you should n't have asked an open question there
20 But with the younger erm West Indians I did n't feel that we we we just did n't seem to be able to find an approach .
21 Erm , we are today , going to do the Black Sheep of the Family , erm , because erm , erm , does n't feel that he he 's up to doing the one that he thought he would do this week .
22 They produce press releases and they send it off and they feel terribly bitter and twisted and unhappy because nobody takes any notice of it , but they do n't realize that what they 've actually produced makes no sense at all to the person receiving it on the other end .
23 And I ca n't see that what she said to me is any of your business . ’
24 He was noticing everything , the way the light played on a broken brick in the wall opposite and sometimes it looked hollow and sometimes it looked a bulge , which proved that you could n't say that what you saw , however carefully , scientifically , you analysed it , was a scientific fact .
25 Well , I , I do n't say that everything you do is lost .
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