Example sentences of "not [verb] [conj] [pron] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In spite of all this , we do not think that anyone who has chosen to work in a job where he is paid weekly should have monthly payment imposed on him against his will . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | Walkers pour over National Trust , Forestry Commission and Nature Conservancy information leaflets showing nature trails , with growing scepticism , not realising that they themselves are the problem . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | One of the problems of the economy was the level of its resources that were being sucked into the long-running colonial war in French Indo-China , a war which France could not win and one which was effectively concluded by the humiliating surrender in May 1954 of the cream of the French army at Dien Bien Phu . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She did not know if she herself were a part , a cause of it . |
| 11 | Wilson was immediately worried that the rooms she had ready would not be thought adequate , that indeed she did not know if she herself thought they were adequate , and that she would be unable to prepare meals in her feeble condition , but Miss Blagden laid to rest all her anxieties . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I do not feel that I myself am at all psychic and I rarely dream — at least to know clearly on awakening what I have dreamed ; yet I have had in my life two dreams of foreboding . |
| 14 | I do not believe that what we have heard today represents a settled statement of policy , or that it is founded upon solid conviction . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | She can not believe that what she thinks about this and that has any value , because she has thought it . |
| 17 | The main reason that I was allowed to do the research was , I learned later , because their press was so bad the Moonies could not believe that someone who would listen to what they said could possibly come up with worse stories than those already in the media . |
| 18 | But as Erskine May points out , it does not follow that everything which is said and done within the confines of the chamber during a debate or other business forms part of a proceeding in Parliament . |
| 19 | He told her some more , including complex words she could not follow and which she was sure she was not meant to . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He did not look like anyone she had libelled lately . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It was to meet cases of this kind that Equity invented the great remedies of specific performance and injunction : specific performance to compel a man actually to do what he has promised — to give you the land in return for the money , to pay you the purchase money in return for the land ; injunction to forbid him to do what he has promised not to do or what he has no right to do — to forbid him to open the public house or the music-school , to forbid him to build so as to block up your light , even to compel him to pull down the objectionable wall ; the last sort of injunction is called mandatory . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 |
| 27 | I am not saying that someone who does not understand his faith has no faith . |
| 28 | Joan de Warenne being not of royal blood and not linked as you yourself are , Lady Anne , by a bond of marriage , I can see no virtue in such an arrangement . ’ |
| 29 | It 's non-examinable , but that does not mean that what you are taught here is not worthwhile ! |
| 30 | This does not mean that nothing whatever qualifies that could conceivably take " contradictory " predicates . |