Example sentences of "not [verb] [Wh det] be [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the organisers , John Tipple , of the Socialist Workers Party , said : ‘ We just can not trust what is being said . |
| 2 | The following month , in the same journal , a swift refutation of these tenets came in the shape of a letter from a consultant histopathologist by name of J.V. Clark , who responds to the last point regarding the relations ' not understanding what is being asked when a postmortem is requested , by pointing out that in all probability funeral directors do not explain the procedure of embalming to the next of kin and , more seriously , maintaining that delay would reduce the maximum benefit of an autopsy and also delay the funeral . |
| 3 | Chopra still did not know what was being excavated , or why they had stolen the most powerful thermonuclear device ever created . |
| 4 | I am convinced that many students often do not understand what is being said in teaching situations , though they become adept at pretending to , as they do not wish to lose face . |
| 5 | He maintains that , ‘ So soon after the death of a relative in hospital the next of kin are in the early stages of severe grieving , and often do not understand what is being asked of them . ’ |
| 6 | The PF2 key can be used to obtain help if the user is in any doubt about what to do next , what to enter or does not understand what is being displayed on a page . |
| 7 | The PF2 key can be used to obtain help if the user is in any doubt about what to do next , what to enter or does not understand what is being displayed on a page . |
| 8 | Whenever you are in doubt about what to do next , what to enter , or do not understand what is being displayed on the page , more information can be obtained by pressing the Help key , ( the PF2 key on the keypad ) . |
| 9 | Whenever you are in doubt about what to do next , what to enter , or you do not understand what is being displayed on the page , more information can be obtained by pressing the Help key , ( the PF2 key on the keypad ) . |
| 10 | ‘ At any given point , if the audience does not understand what is being said , they will get the atmosphere of what is going on , ’ he said . |
| 11 | The Great Spirit … seemed to be looking some other way , and did not see what was being done to my people . |
| 12 | Becker , on the other hand , who tends to use a more open-ended style of interviewing , has argued that the interviewer should sometimes ‘ play dumb ’ and pretend not to understand what is being said , in order to prompt the respondent into saying more . |
| 13 | The client may not hear what is being said because it is something hard to accept . |
| 14 | Meredith could not hear what was being said but she could more or less guess at it . |
| 15 | She had put her hands before her face , and by now the whole room was watching them , although most could not hear what was being said . |
| 16 | Joseph , unable to follow the French , waited in anguish , not knowing what was being said . |
| 17 | The blueprint detective story to be successful with its readers , even if they do not realise what is being done with them , must have as much of " story " in it as of " detective " ; even in that most puzzle-oriented sub-genre , the locked-room mystery . |
| 18 | erm like you we read the first passage and it was kind of what 's what 's all this about if you was n't in the room and you did n't know what was being you have n't got a clue what was going on because it does n't tell you , but the rest of the sections that put down they do give a sort of brief analysis |
| 19 | And she had a special name for it , I ca n't remember what is was now , but it was an innocuous word , like erm erm , kneading , or something like that , something you do with your fingers . |
| 20 | She could n't hear what was being said , but she saw that three caravans were standing inside the field by the gate and that several rough-looking men were raising their fists and shouting at Farmer Yatton , Angela 's father , who was ordering them out . |
| 21 | We could n't hear what was being said but the large man was bending over Bogie 's table and poking him in the chest . |