Example sentences of "not realise that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many pilots quite unwittingly take off with the stick right back , not realising that if the launch fails when they have just left the ground , an accident will be inevitable . |
| 2 | He built them a pagoda of solid jade and embellished it with precious gems — not realising that to grow up a dragon must accumulate its own hoard , must steal it from Emperors and princes . |
| 3 | He had a pond dug for them , so pretty and sweet , surrounded by bullrushes with a delicate arched bridge and floating with water lilies — Not realising that a real dragon needs a whole ocean to sport in , needs the spume of the white capped waves , needs the great storms and clanging icebergs , needs the coral islands of the southern seas , needs the dark rains and winds and currents to make its blood flow green and its whiskers curl ferociously . |
| 4 | The scholar fed his pet dragons on the choicest tit-bits , bringing them rump steaks of the purest virgins and a daily supply of swallows ' flesh — not realising that such things , for true dragons , are treats , are after-dinner delicacies and no more a fit diet than endless chocolates would be for you . |
| 5 | She rushed indoors , using her choicest language , not realising that Erica was in the orchard . |
| 6 | ‘ Beware of sugar-coated bullets , ’ warned Chairman Mao in his Little Red book , not realising that today 's politics is tomorrow 's pop platitude . |
| 7 | The horse will gallop off in terror , not realising that all it has to do is open its jaws to free itself from its tormentor . |
| 8 | Walkers pour over National Trust , Forestry Commission and Nature Conservancy information leaflets showing nature trails , with growing scepticism , not realising that they themselves are the problem . |
| 9 | Although hypothermia can happen accidentally , it is essentially an insidious condition that can happen over several hours , the victim becoming sleepier and sleepier in this time and not realising that he or she is freezing to death . |
| 10 | The owner of aircraft B would notice nothing wrong with his radio equipment , not realising that the serial numbers no longer matched those recorded in the aircraft log-book . |
| 11 | Some of her family and friends who knew that her marriage was unsuccessful may assume that her feelings about her husband 's death could only be those of relief that their life together is over at last and that she is now free to seek a better future for herself ; not realising that if a woman has lived with a man for many years , unless he has treated her with extreme cruelty , and shown her no love at all throughout the whole of their marriage , some kind of bond is bound to have existed between them , and that even if he left her with only a handful of good memories of times they spent together , it is likely that she may want to hold on to them , cherish them , and even build upon them . |
| 12 | We continued into the upper , easier couloir , not realising that most people abseil off to avoid the long haul to the summit . |
| 13 | Not realising that the afternoon hours had passed , she had gone out and thrown the boiling rice water on the ground . |
| 14 | I made some mistakes — for example not realising that the maintenance would be quite hard work . |
| 15 | Not realising that " Ip in one case meant " armed man " and in the other " thousand " , this was tidied up to read 59,300 . |
| 16 | When she woke she was further annoyed at having dreamed a category confusion , a man and a book , not realising that the category error was partly the answer to the uncouth question , since Proust was coterminous with a book as the eponymous Tom Jones was not . |
| 17 | I set fire to a barn , not realising that there was a sick cow in there that perished , and I got three years ’ approved school . |
| 18 | Not realising that the documents on discharge and assessment had been produced in a hurry to meet the government 's suddenly imposed deadline of 31 December , he criticised the two weeks he had been given to consult his 200 consultant colleagues . |
| 19 | I DISCOVERED OIL pastels one Christmas when kindly relation bought me a large box after hearing that I painted in pastels ; not realising that it was the soft chalk variety that I used . |
| 20 | He saw you coming and begged for mercy , not realising that his words were being transmitted and repeated by Michael Banks on stage . |
| 21 | Surely it was his duty to be ? she told herself , not realising that at that very moment he was sitting listening to a paper being read at a learned society , his mind occupied with a particularly tricky question he intended to ask when the speaker sat down . |
| 22 | ‘ Grief , ’ said the neighbours later , not realising that the ultimate reality had taken over . |
| 23 | There is a price to be paid for not realising that the days of production of coal at the expense of all other power fuels are over . |
| 24 | It would seem to cover the situation where the accused takes the victim 's umbrella dishonestly and the victim buys back the umbrella , not realising that it is his own . |
| 25 | Headlined ‘ This Sick Idea ’ , the leader recorded the fact that Mr Clay was unaware of what Mrs Thatcher was trying to do and asked whether she had not realised that ‘ by seeking to reward the only general secretary who treated her with kid gloves , she would end up by blackening his name ’ . |
| 26 | The owner of the horse had not realised that if the horse was threatening her , that its ears would be held firmly backwards , and not just relaxed backwards . |
| 27 | She had not realised that some of the horses had been ‘ jazzed up ’ and made a bit more fearful or anxious , so that the horse had extended its top lip through tension . |
| 28 | It is not realised that in the seventies property crash only three major quoted property companies failed , Guardian Properties , Town & Commercial and Amalgamated Investment & Property . |
| 29 | But Lokata had not realised that it was treading on a defence secret . |
| 30 | He answered that he had not realised that , as a pilot of an aircraft , he needed one . |