Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] what [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps the only mistake I made all those years ago was not realising what an anti-democratic medium television would prove to be . |
| 2 | The legislation reflected a judgement that local authorities could not deliver what the national interest required . |
| 3 | BRITISH sub-aqua divers are being warned not to desecrate what the Japanese say are their biggest war graves in the South Pacific . |
| 4 | You can not guarantee what the resulting shade will be , though — you build up depth with subsequent layers — and you can get tell-tale streaking if you are not very careful with application . |
| 5 | The problem is that without measuring the heights , and their frequency , of all adult males we will not know what a representative sample would be . |
| 6 | Perhaps the English do not know what an immense treasure they possess in having maintained the choral tradition in colleges and churches , since it provides an unsurpassable musical training , an important number of truly fine choirs , and , finally , the possibility to experience ( and for the listener , to enjoy ) repertories that the long-suffering Spanish enthusiast scarcely knows since they are not performed [ in Spain ] . |
| 7 | Accordingly , one is constrained in the way which one can refer to the preceding paragraph in the printed document — because one does not know what the preceding paragraph will be . |
| 8 | I do not know what the Labour party is so proud of , because under the previous Labour Government manufacturing output fell by 2 per cent . |
| 9 | I do not know what the right hon. Member for Manchester , Gorton ( Mr. Kaufman ) heard , but I distinctly heard the Foreign Secretary answer yes on several occasions . |
| 10 | Mr Ruddy said he did not know what the two were doing . |
| 11 | Geoffrey Robertson , QC for Mr Henderson , told the judge after the acquittals : ‘ The prosecution was brought by one hand of the Government which did not know what the other hand was doing . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I do not know what the final outcome will be and would stress that there is no obvious solution at this point , but at least we now have adequate time to look at all the alternatives . ’ |
| 13 | I do not know what the hon. Gentleman means , but I regret that , as ever — and typically of Labour Members — the hon. Gentleman seems to glory in gloom and despondency in identifying the more negative aspects of things , rather than looking at the positive . |
| 14 | I do not know what the hon. Gentleman is talking about . |
| 15 | But this is the mistake of ignorance , because they do not know what the contemplative life stands for . |
| 16 | Perhaps the right hand , in the shape of Kenneth Baker , does not know what the left-hand , in the shape of the present health minister , Norman Fowler is up to ? |
| 17 | Unfortunately , many of my letters home miscarried , because , Turkey being neutral until towards the end of the war , the post went through enemy-occupied Europe : I do not know what the Nazi censors made of some of my missives . |
| 18 | If you do not know what the true variable costs are , how can you make correct decisions ? |
| 19 | Provided it was in the form of a thin whisker , it did not matter what the chemical nature of the stuff was or by what method the whiskers were grown . |
| 20 | Rather than procrastinating with shadow trusts , why does he not do what the incoming Labour Government will do and abandon the ill-conceived , ill-considered , useless and unwanted ideas about trust hospitals ? |
| 21 | This is not to denigrate what the Six did achieve economically and politically during the first few years of the organisation . |
| 22 | ‘ Let her go , ’ he said , hoping that the masher would not see what a useless cripple he was . |
| 23 | Rose said it as if she did not realize what a strange but interesting thing she had said . |
| 24 | ( It is strange : even though he has all the necessary information about them , terrestrial psychology is incomprehensible to him — the concept of love unfamiliar , so that he can not guess what a difficult situation he would create by his sincere , practical and well-intended question . ) |
| 25 | But Donald , to judge from the size of the congregation - they were three deep in the aisles and old Mr Donovan from 21b ( ‘ I fought two wars for you lot ’ ) had to wait outside the double doors — Donald was not experiencing what the French sociologist called the Lonely Death . |
| 26 | Then they can not have what the larger community regards as the necessary minimum for decency … . |
| 27 | And he had once elicited from her the statement , ‘ I did not have what the English refer to as ‘ a good war ’ . ’ |
| 28 | AN ACCORD aiming to shake off local government 's image of the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing was signed in Essex yesterday . |
| 29 | And he should n't have admitted to not knowing what the Emerald Isle was . |
| 30 | We do not ask what the absolute probability of a hypothesis h ( written would be . |