Example sentences of "not [adv] [verb] what " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it is not altogether clear what part dietary habits play . |
| 2 | If not , then the notion of the sum of the value of the parts is not clear cut , and it is similarly not clear cut what is involved in the value of the whole not being the same as this sum . |
| 3 | It is not entirely clear what its Darwinian purpose is , but it certainly must have one , for the beavers expend so much time and energy to build it . |
| 4 | Yet vagueness in stating the task or problem can often create resistance or a failure to accept the delegated task simply because the subordinate is not entirely clear what it is you want done . |
| 5 | This chapter examines a study , where , at the outset , the analysts were not entirely clear what could be achieved by using soft systems analysis , but felt it would provide an overview of the situation , enabling ideas to be formulated about new relationships that would arise from a fundamental change in role . |
| 6 | It is not entirely clear what females gain from this choice , but there are several ideas . |
| 7 | Other sketchbooks contain swift pencil notations which correspond to oil paintings , although it is not entirely clear what function they served and whether Monet consulted them at any later stage in the evolution of his compositions . |
| 8 | At the moment I 'm not entirely clear what the difference is between these two forms of words . |
| 9 | In terms of the performance of the economy as a whole it is not entirely clear what the impact of regional disparities is , though it seems plausible that congestion in the south east and the under-utilisation of resources elsewhere represent a net loss to the economy overall . |
| 10 | I 'm not entirely clear what I do at this point . |
| 11 | It is not entirely clear what factors the court must take into account when creating the hypothetical similar child . |
| 12 | I 'm not entirely clear what was said , but erm , they were certainly given no commitment to an an interview |
| 13 | Now many commentators have found it not entirely clear what Locke has in mind and I 'm puzzled by erm the confusion into which they seem to have fallen . |
| 14 | I 'm still not entirely clear what a microprocessor is . |
| 15 | A political gamble was taken too : that if hostages were released , Americans would not greatly mind what the price or the means had been . |
| 16 | Literary criticism has often taken precisely this assumption as its starting point , and has presumed that a literary text is not necessarily saying what it intends to say or even what it appears to say — hence the need for critical interpretation . |
| 17 | These tools of the trade may make planning possible , but they do not necessarily produce what is needed by Soviet society . |
| 18 | ‘ Your sexy persona does not necessarily indicate what you imagine your sexy being doing in bed , nor does it indicate who you 're attracted to . ’ |
| 19 | The result of all this is that because of the divergence of Belfast English from other varieties and the internal divergence within it , we do not know beforehand what is the correct lexical input to any phonological variable , we do not necessarily know what the variants of the variable are , and we may not be at all certain about what precisely might count as a variable . |
| 20 | One problem is that we do not necessarily know what a particular wavefunction looks like , and it is here that the LCAO approach to the construction of molecular orbitals is very useful . |
| 21 | As with a pair of glasses , presuppositions determine what we see and how we see it , but they do not necessarily determine what there is to be seen . |
| 22 | I made the point earlier that descriptive facts about actual usage do not necessarily determine what is to be included in a language course . |
| 23 | As instructional material it is indirect in that the reader is not necessarily told what to do , as in a routine . |
| 24 | It is not enough to say what a course is about ; physicists and engineers , biologists and doctors , economists and managers may each be concerned with the same phenomena but for different reasons and in different ways . |
| 25 | Malpass had told me a few more bits of the story ; not enough to know what was really going on but just enough to make me feel uncomfortable . |
| 26 | That 's an area where they 're not gon na get involved unless there 's an awful lot of money and yes , there is money , for them for a training budget , but certainly not enough to cover what would be lost if , if Tomlinson , and let's face it , if they win Tomlinson it will just continue . |
| 27 | She had more or less accepted that she would go to hell for her crime , and did not much care what would happen to her after death . |
| 28 | It was as if they were taking off my clothes , garment by garment , and did not much appreciate what they saw . |
| 29 | It is as if the public recognizes that society has changed over the decade but does not much like what sees . |
| 30 | The sailor 's personal log might not only record what has happened on the journey so far , it might also speculate about what the crew should do with the merman they 've caught in their nets ; it might contain thoughts about food and the way it is stored on board ship ; it might suggest new ways of storing food . |