Example sentences of "not [verb] what [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She may find it difficult to raise this personally more pressing problem , but until the adviser acknowledges her priorities , Sally may not absorb what is said to her . |
| 2 | Some parents respond to food fads in the media and become concerned that their child is not eating what is considered ‘ healthy ’ food . |
| 3 | But here we can not consider what is abnormal , we must confine our study of formal principles to what is to be found in most Western music . |
| 4 | Design , which has had a poor record in not exercising choice , in not challenging what is " given " , in eschewing the social , is faced in these propositions with a " new " operative role . |
| 5 | What kind of fool do you think me , not to know what 's closest to your heart ? ’ |
| 6 | One of the organisers , John Tipple , of the Socialist Workers Party , said : ‘ We just can not trust what is being said . |
| 7 | Most older people do not need what is interestingly referred to as ‘ warden-controlled accommodation ’ , although they seldom object to this extra facility . |
| 8 | Zuccarelli will not discuss what is inside his ‘ Ringo ’ recording head instead expounding a psycho-acoustic theory to disguise what engineers suspect is a simple advance in old-fashioned binaural recording . |
| 9 | Yet , unfortunately this positive role so often gets lost in the way we have described earlier , with people just not understanding what is going on around them at a time when it could provide them with so much support . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ I do not know what 's wrong with it ! ’ she gritted . |
| 12 | So you know there the recoveries are very good , very welcomed by us , but basically we 're two years now since this happened erm pensioners have been suffering extreme mental turmoil for that period , quite frankly they 're , they 're utterly confused , they do n't understand what 's happening and to ask those sort of people to rely and put their s their , their whole future security on the outcomings of out of court settlements where claims are made for two hundred million and there 's a thirty two million you know they 're getting totally confused and I think that that they just do not know what 's happening , they , they want long-term security , we 're now getting an increasing number of people who 've retired since the schemes were wound up and are therefore getting a hundred per cent of their , their money from the company fund , which we 're told is going to run out in two-and-a-half years time . |
| 13 | So far we do not know what is going to happen about this . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ If this is not direct political control of a broadcasting network I do not know what is , ’ he said . |
| 15 | I do not know what is wrong but I do n't feel right ’ , he said . |
| 16 | If that is not over the score I do not know what is . |
| 17 | They also do not know what is going on or what to do next . |
| 18 | It is sad when the options are closed off because those who support do not know what is of most significance . |
| 19 | Second , when people do not know what is happening to them , they become frightened , feel out of control , and are more prone to catastrophic misinterpretations . |
| 20 | A consequence of this approach is that many managers within one division will not know what is important to another division , as well as the overall corporation . |
| 21 | We do not know what is meant . |
| 22 | They may not know what is in these documents ; even those who do may not understand the implications of the proposals . |
| 23 | the superior will not ‘ panic , because he does not know what is going on . |
| 24 | ‘ I do not know what is this action you refer to . ’ |
| 25 | You do not know what is in it . |
| 26 | Scientists have suggested that the fish are infected by a bacteria or a fungus , but they do not know what is causing the disease . |
| 27 | ‘ The law in this country protects little girls because they do not know what is right and what is wrong . |
| 28 | ‘ The law in this country protects little girls because they do not know what is right and what is wrong . |
| 29 | If that is not a war out there , then I do not know what is . |
| 30 | 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 . |