Example sentences of "not [verb] what [is] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most older people do not need what is interestingly referred to as ‘ warden-controlled accommodation ’ , although they seldom object to this extra facility . |
| 2 | As people can not buy what is n't on sale it is often important to tell " the trade " , like retailers , first about a new product or an impending advertising campaign . |
| 3 | Sadly , the city can not do what is most needed : join its suburban neighbours in a regional government that does away with redundancies and evens out the huge inequities in school financing and municipal services . |
| 4 | This does not follow what is generally accepted as good industrial/commercial practice . |
| 5 | Sorry , just er to clarify was happy about er reversing the orders of these , provided we did not amend what is currently present er item one . |
| 6 | But from his identifying a person 's body as it appears to that person with that person 's ‘ introspected self ’ , it would seem that Mace can not mean what is ordinarily meant by the former phrase . |
| 7 | And therefore ( d ) ‘ this is [ sic — should be ‘ appears ’ : JD ] white' does not express what is directly evident . |
| 8 | The reader may feel perplexity , but the text will not amplify what is there or rewrite itself in a simpler form . |
| 9 | next week , but do n't know what is on , those who |
| 10 | I do n't know what is now |
| 11 | ‘ Do n't know what 's beyond . |
| 12 | Cos that 's one reason a lot of Harlow people do n't know what 's on do n't erm you know they they do n't really have contact with erm they do n't always use Harvey . |
| 13 | Yeah I do n't know what 's on . |
| 14 | So Doris said , Oh well I do n't know what 's on that she said . |
| 15 | I do n't know what 's up . |
| 16 | ‘ If you do n't know what you 'd choose to do on the last day of your life , you do n't know what 's really important to you . |
| 17 | letters on a morning , you do n't know what 's inside . |
| 18 | Weekly budgets also do n't describe what is n't bought — a television licence , a holiday , a night out , trips to the swimming baths , roller skates , the Radio Times , a pound of plums . |
| 19 | No I just do n't , I mean I do n't understand what 's like if you see who 's going out with people it 's always the boringest people , I 've never seen any of them smile , laugh , talk , they just , they just seem like to be shells of people |
| 20 | I do n't see what is so special about a mangy poodle . ’ |
| 21 | I ca n't see what 's here , working oh , class , the class thing comes out . |
| 22 | I do n't see what 's so sinister about biology as a hypothesis . |
| 23 | ‘ I do n't see what 's so funny , ’ said Gurder coldly . |
| 24 | He returned to his seat and she went on , ‘ Anyway , I do n't see what 's so funny about thermals . |
| 25 | ‘ I do n't see what 's so funny , ’ said Robert , who was looking nervously down the street . |
| 26 | They complain that ‘ even with hindsight we ca n't decide what 's really relevant and in what order ’ ( 35 ) , which causes problems with ‘ sequence-control ’ ( 23,28 ) because of ‘ spaghetti stacks ’ ( poorly ordered sequences of instructions , 12 ) . |