Example sentences of "not [verb] [verb] [is] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What he should not have said is that he was pleased to join Blackburn 'cos they were going places , implying he did n't think Leeds were going to have any more success . |
| 2 | What they may not have realised is that that message conveyed itself to the American public ! |
| 3 | What he will not have overlooked is that Churchill — for 10 years ( between 1929 and 1939 ) , the only comparable ‘ outsider ’ within the Tory Party — did not vault straight into the prime ministership . |
| 4 | What the hon. Gentleman does not seem to understand is that one can have a progressive system with two rates . |
| 5 | But what we are not allowed to admit is that there are dragons inside the camp , let alone in our hearts . |
| 6 | What she wo n't want to hear is that I am cured of the madness which kept me from sleeping at night and the imagination which played havoc with my peace of mind during the day . |
| 7 | What they do n't seem to realise is that we do n't keep spares in the office , so all we can do is send them on to Ablex anyway , so you 'll have longer to wait . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | What people do n't seem to realise is that families outside still have to support prisoners . |
| 10 | What you do n't seem to know is that I 'm working for Query and not for you . |
| 11 | What he does n't seem to know is that Albie had been talking to Carmichael . |
| 12 | Yes that seems to me to fit that sort of bill , erm to be quite honest I would prefer that we base the promises on a previous paper that T six six one , er you know , sort of er typical success of the fact looking forward cos at least erm that 's not so erm , you know , sort of difficult to erm you know achieve as erm sort of repairing potholes within , when you consider that the reason that the potholes do n't get mended is because government legislation has it that we have to actually erm have lines painted all round them , so that they can be part of the package of er road mending in many cases , I mean urgently erm difficult ones are not that common er so I think that perhaps some of these promises are so difficult because it gives with one hand and takes back with the other , you know , it says we promise , but , I , I would say that 's not much of a promise , you say I promise to erm , you know , erm merge , I forgot about , but if it said but , you know , if it rains I wo n't tell you , er it would be very sad |
| 13 | What we were n't trying to say is that we make no contribution to the greenhouse effect … [ but ] to say that making Andrex from virgin fibre instead of waste causes less carbon dioxide to be released to the atmosphere . ’ |