Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [verb] not [vb infin] what " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( If my private test convinces me that I do not want what you think I want , I assume error in your reading of me the public tests , which I must expose or leave you unanswered . ) |
| 2 | I have read the report of the guardian ad litem and such information as I have which would indicate her view of the local authority 's actions now on several occasions and I have to say that I do not understand what findings the justices believed that they were making or what reasons they were giving for their decision in that brief statement , which I have just quoted in full . |
| 3 | If I said , ‘ It looks blue ’ but otherwise seemed incapable of colour discrimination , of being able to respond differently , verbally and in other ways , to differently coloured things , and , particularly , of being able to tell when other blue things were present and when absent , then people would rightly suspect that I did not know what I was talking about , that my experience could not really be of its looking blue . |
| 4 | It is not that she does not know what to say , it is that there is not enough time to say all she knows . |
| 5 | You should write your notes up in continuous prose as soon as possible after the lecture so that you do not forget what the shortforms stand for . |
| 6 | When hearing loss is severe , the written word is your main ally , but you may also need the facility of one person who can make sure that you do not miss what is said . |
| 7 | That you did not mean what you said to me that day . ’ |
| 8 | He would have preferred it had their arguments led directly to immaterialism , and showed not merely that we do not know what qualities material objects have , but indeed that they have none , or even that there are no such objects . |
| 9 | It would be disingenuous , even for those of us who take another view , to pretend that we do not know what made an intelligent British traditionalist like Enoch Powell call for a halt to mass immigration some 20 years ago , and what made British governments of both parties follow his lead . |
| 10 | Of Henry , as of Edward III , we must admit that we do not know what his precise political ambitions in France were . |
| 11 | We should of course be aware that we do not know what Jesus himself said : we do not have his words verbatim . |
| 12 | The increasing numbers of dementia sufferers living alone ; the pressures on carers , will mean that the need for all services will increase and I would suggest that the level of our knowledge is such that we do not know what the " best " care for dementia sufferers is — and what may be best for sufferers may not be best for carers . |
| 13 | The Government can not say , as an excuse , that they did not know what was going on and how it could escalate . |
| 14 | If the former , then consumers have money in their bank accounts or pockets that they do not know what to do with and may therefore not mind increased taxation to pay for schools , hospitals , and the social services . |
| 15 | They may refuse to respond , on the grounds that they do not know what tiv means ( see Carey , 1978 ) ; they may ask what tiv means , and having been told to guess , offer a response ; or they may select a response without querying tiv . |
| 16 | That they do not know what you seek as well as your intention of rooting out any trace of an ancient order . |
| 17 | Nor can teachers any longer be allowed to say that they do not know what will be required of their pupils three , six or eight years later . |
| 18 | They spend so much time thinking about mathematical problems that they do not notice what is happening around them . |
| 19 | Instead , we squander our unique position in society and nation by often giving the impression that it does not matter what we believe or how we behave . |
| 20 | You should learn from this that it does not matter what side you choose for the base as long as you choose the correct Perpendicular height to go with the base . |
| 21 | Van Doren 's excuse to the investigating congressional committee was the most interesting part of the unedifying episode : ‘ I was almost able to convince myself that it did not matter what I was doing because it was having such a good effect on the national attitude to teachers , education and the intellectual life . ’ |
| 22 | For a moment he felt that it did not matter what he had promised Maidstone . |
| 23 | What was more , when we plotted , not strength but breaking strain , against thickness , we found that it did not matter what the whiskers were made of , for they all plotted on the same curve . |
| 24 | Ben studied his brother — the man he had always thought of as his father and saw suddenly that it did not matter what he was in reality , for Hal Shepherd had become what he believed he was . |
| 25 | I sometimes think that the hon. Gentleman is so busy thinking up his contorted questions that he does not observe what is going on in the House at other times . |
| 26 | Dr Kennedy has sent a letter to Mrs Falconer saying that he does not see what benefit can arise from any further extension to consideration of the matter . ’ |
| 27 | JOHN SMITH is preparing to launch the biggest tax assault ever on middle income families while claiming that he does not know what the effect of his tax hike will be on incentives , confidence or on the economy . |
| 28 | His excuse that he did not realise what he was being given was laughed at . |
| 29 | I shouted that he did not know what he was talking about and held the telephone away from my face . |
| 30 | Charles stated that he did not know what was to take place , and would not have entered St Peter 's basilica if he had known . |