Example sentences of "[adj] thing that do not " in BNC.
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| 1 | One small thing that does n't fit … ’ |
| 2 | the only thing that does n't is my telephone bill , it comes sort of under I F , which is if |
| 3 | The only thing that did n't work was the understanding that we had to be big time very quickly . |
| 4 | The only thing that did n't work for him was his marriage , perhaps his wife will give you a different side … do n't tell me that you did n't know he was married and separated , Mr Millet … bit bloody thin on the groundwork , are n't you ? ’ |
| 5 | The only thing that did n't say was a letter from , Headmaster of the County Primary School . |
| 6 | I do not think that there can be any combination that we did not try during my time in the parks , and the only thing that did not look positively awful were the short growing , pale , less intense blues of violas and lobelia under pink and red roses — other colours and growing heights were invariably a tasteless rag-bag . |
| 7 | Teller went to extreme lengths to rescue Part I , but in the words of Robert Oppenheimer , ‘ The programme we had in 1949 was a tortured thing that did not make a great deal of technical sense . |