Example sentences of "not [verb] [verb] is " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even allowing that man 's capacity to overlook what he does not want to see is almost unlimited , the folk of this age can hardly have failed to observe that new law was being made all the time . |
| 2 | The one thing I am not going to do is look remotely fazed or ruffled . |
| 3 | I think that people do n't want to see any more constitutional changes , but there are many more changes in the culture , in the way the Party operates at local , regional , and national level , which we will be addressing , but what we 're not going to have is more constitutional changes , because people feel that we 've made changes , we have moved the Party forward , we 're clear the direction we 're going in , and now the Party at all levels wants to address itself not only to building our membership , but also to showing how the policies we 've got meet the changed world outside . |
| 4 | What he should not have said is that he was pleased to join Blackburn 'cos they were going places , implying he did n't think Leeds were going to have any more success . |
| 5 | What they may not have realised is that that message conveyed itself to the American public ! |
| 6 | What he will not have overlooked is that Churchill — for 10 years ( between 1929 and 1939 ) , the only comparable ‘ outsider ’ within the Tory Party — did not vault straight into the prime ministership . |
| 7 | Proving ignorance of facts that one might or might not have known is impossible , unless one has been in a well-documented coma . |
| 8 | I would argue though that publication of such material when other writers could not get published is an indication of the bounds of the acceptable in public debate . |
| 9 | What the hon. Gentleman does not seem to understand is that one can have a progressive system with two rates . |
| 10 | But what we are not allowed to admit is that there are dragons inside the camp , let alone in our hearts . |
| 11 | ‘ What we can not afford to do is to sacrifice our core investment programme in Chemicals which is so important to the long-term future . ’ |
| 12 | In teaching and thinking about company law one of the themes which we can not afford to ignore is the way in which legal doctrine and scholarship provide a mode of legitimating corporate managerial power which draws on a set of background assumptions of political theory . |
| 13 | A feature of village life that we can not help noticing is how people come together to share their common joys and griefs . |
| 14 | The child who does not learn to ask is seriously impaired in later life . |
| 15 | ‘ The Christian who will not listen to reason is a fool , ’ says Watson forth-rightly . |
| 16 | We see we see this forum as very much the right sort of forum for either making or breaking the case for a new settlement , the one thing I do have to say , however , is that the Department wants to see this particular issue settled in the context of the alteration , and full significance of that is n't immediately apparent , it , what we do n't want to see is what was envisaged in the H B F statement , where they thought that we might end up with a decision to have a new settlement in principle and then leave it open to the local plans , all four of them around the city , to then explore the possible alternative locations . |
| 17 | I agree wholeheartedly , with what we were saying , what we do n't want to see is a whole one house block in the countryside , he wants to see it as part of a farmstead and order to prove that it 's going to be part of a farmstead , the buildings should be prerequisite to go up first before the house does . |
| 18 | ‘ What we do n't want to see is our own producers being undercut . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ What we do n't want to see is our own producers being undercut . ’ |
| 20 | I 'm not quite sure yet cos we 're this chicken and egg which starts first I think we 're gon na look at a an an interim type report in year nine a quicker type report I ca n't remember what it 's , it 's written down in my other diary because what I do n't want to happen is to , people to have a onerous report at the end of year nine , cos they 're gon na have to do a report there now |
| 21 | What you do n't want to do is run up an overdraft in the hope no one will notice . |
| 22 | Er I what I do n't want to do is to prompt him into |
| 23 | What she wo n't want to hear is that I am cured of the madness which kept me from sleeping at night and the imagination which played havoc with my peace of mind during the day . |
| 24 | I do n't , I do n't think dieting is the main thing , it 's just cutting down and getting more exercise |
| 25 | Erm , and it means to , standing up against , erm , rejecting , oh no , I do n't think rejecting is is |
| 26 | Looking for something that you do n't expect to find is a demoralizing task , and succeeding in finding nothing offers only a dreary satisfaction . |
| 27 | What he would n't have done is gone out and bought the girl loads of flowers the next morning and then get caught by me doing it . |
| 28 | Which I would n't have thought is extortionate in this day and age . |
| 29 | Dave added the Nuneaton area was starved of good fisheries , and that the only choice for locals who do n't wish to travel is a couple of stetches of canal . |
| 30 | ‘ See , what you do n't seem to grasp is we 've got to progress or everything stops . |