Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] [conj] [Wh det] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly Emperor Marcus answered by rescript that the words in which a testator had provided that ‘ he did not doubt that whatever his wife had received she would restore to his children ’ should be treated as a trust . |
| 2 | It was pointed out that candidates obtaining low marks in public examinations were demonstrating more of what they did not know than what they did know . |
| 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 | It is a sign of the times that Mr Franco 's plan is being praised more for what it did not do than what it did . |
| 6 | I do not believe that what we have heard today represents a settled statement of policy , or that it is founded upon solid conviction . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She can not believe that what she thinks about this and that has any value , because she has thought it . |
| 9 | He told her some more , including complex words she could not follow and which she was sure she was not meant to . |
| 10 | I went and sat in a field and experienced that great bubbling up of love for the Father and for Jesus which I expressed alternately in English and in this new language which I did not understand but which I knew was to be addressed to God and which built me up as I used it . |
| 11 | Difficulties arise when individuals are asked to develop , qualities which they do not possess or which they have previously dismissed as irrelevant or not worth possessing . |
| 12 | It 's non-examinable , but that does not mean that what you are taught here is not worthwhile ! |
| 13 | The Lords held that the boys were guilty even though they did not realise that what they were doing might harm others . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | And then we used to play games with him and we were going to invent a game that did n't exist because whatever you said , Mr Brynner always said , ‘ Well , as a matter of fact I was world champion pistol shot , ’ or ‘ I 'm the world champion ’ of whatever it was you mentioned . |
| 17 | That 's perfectly true , it is a system of the end of the world and my only consc my only complaint is that I do n't think that what my Right Honourable Friend is suggesting is in fact a destruction of the tripartite system . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | Perhaps the honourable member should do a competitiveness survey and go somewhere else for his queue , I do n't know but what I can tell the honourable gentleman is that even though there were losses in the banking industry for the last year there have been strongly offsetting rises in insurance and business services . |
| 20 | She did n't know but what she did know was that Fernando would n't do anything to hurt anyone … only herself , as he had threatened when she had first arrived here at the lovely Casa Pinar . |
| 21 | He did n't know whether what he felt for her was love , affection or pity , or a mixture of all three . |
| 22 | And I still do n't know if what I did was right , or even worth the bother ; and I still resent every minute I spend wondering . |
| 23 | The the Council looking at the whole process of how it spends it money what it does , I think the theatre the start of this evening we were looking quite close about what we do and how we do it what we do n't do and what we should do and I think from what 's been said this evening will be re look closely the questions you 've raised things that you 've raised we 'll report it back to you in the hope of this meeting that we 'll actually moved forward because I think it 's in everybody interest everybody 's interest if the playhouse closes . |
| 24 | He was just as straight about what he did n't want , what he would n't do and what he could n't be bothered to do . |
| 25 | Then choose one of the alternatives discussed this week ( task allocation , team nursing , primary nursing or multidisciplinary team care ) which you do n't use but which you think might also be useable and would promote individualised care in the same work area . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | And I ca n't see that what she said to me is any of your business . ’ |
| 28 | I do n't know whether , people thought that erm if they interfered with me I would n't er I would n't play or what it was but then , anyway erm when the war ended , as I say I got a bit erm worried and erm I then got in touch with er Mr who was then er , then taken over from Sir Cecil Clerk of the Council or Chief Executive and erm , he suggested that erm I might take a course for the erm Home Workers Diploma For The Blind which erm was , well it was a sort of specialized er social worker really . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | I said you 've got it writing and in the solicitor 's letter , she said in there that erm he must get in , if he do n't understand it or er do n't agree or whatever he must get the solicitor but er ai n't heard , ai n't nothing a about it ! |