Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [conj] [pron] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In spite of all this , we do not think that anyone who has chosen to work in a job where he is paid weekly should have monthly payment imposed on him against his will . |
| 2 | Similarly Emperor Marcus answered by rescript that the words in which a testator had provided that ‘ he did not doubt that whatever his wife had received she would restore to his children ’ should be treated as a trust . |
| 3 | One of the problems of the economy was the level of its resources that were being sucked into the long-running colonial war in French Indo-China , a war which France could not win and one which was effectively concluded by the humiliating surrender in May 1954 of the cream of the French army at Dien Bien Phu . |
| 4 | It was pointed out that candidates obtaining low marks in public examinations were demonstrating more of what they did not know than what they did know . |
| 5 | Do you not know that what you belittle by the name tree is but the mere four-dimensional analogue of a whole multidimensional universe which — no , I can see you do not . |
| 6 | In the case of a defendant who uses words , a person can hardly fail to be aware of what he is saying , although he may possibly not know that what he is displaying ( if it be a book ) contains offensive material of which others are aware but he is not . |
| 7 | She did not know if she herself were a part , a cause of it . |
| 8 | Wilson was immediately worried that the rooms she had ready would not be thought adequate , that indeed she did not know if she herself thought they were adequate , and that she would be unable to prepare meals in her feeble condition , but Miss Blagden laid to rest all her anxieties . |
| 9 | It is a sign of the times that Mr Franco 's plan is being praised more for what it did not do than what it did . |
| 10 | I do not feel that I myself am at all psychic and I rarely dream — at least to know clearly on awakening what I have dreamed ; yet I have had in my life two dreams of foreboding . |
| 11 | I do not believe that what we have heard today represents a settled statement of policy , or that it is founded upon solid conviction . |
| 12 | These unusual circumstances , and cases of corrupt diversion of corporate assets aside , however , it will in general be very difficult to demonstrate that the directors did not believe that what they were doing would maximise profits , because of the often insuperable problem of distinguishing between means and ends that this entails . |
| 13 | She can not believe that what she thinks about this and that has any value , because she has thought it . |
| 14 | The main reason that I was allowed to do the research was , I learned later , because their press was so bad the Moonies could not believe that someone who would listen to what they said could possibly come up with worse stories than those already in the media . |
| 15 | But as Erskine May points out , it does not follow that everything which is said and done within the confines of the chamber during a debate or other business forms part of a proceeding in Parliament . |
| 16 | He told her some more , including complex words she could not follow and which she was sure she was not meant to . |
| 17 | I went and sat in a field and experienced that great bubbling up of love for the Father and for Jesus which I expressed alternately in English and in this new language which I did not understand but which I knew was to be addressed to God and which built me up as I used it . |
| 18 | He did not look like anyone she had libelled lately . |
| 19 | Difficulties arise when individuals are asked to develop , qualities which they do not possess or which they have previously dismissed as irrelevant or not worth possessing . |
| 20 | It 's non-examinable , but that does not mean that what you are taught here is not worthwhile ! |
| 21 | This does not mean that nothing whatever qualifies that could conceivably take " contradictory " predicates . |
| 22 | This does not mean that he himself thought a trust the ideal way to realize his intentions . |
| 23 | The Lords held that the boys were guilty even though they did not realise that what they were doing might harm others . |
| 24 | If that is so , the defendant can not be convicted if he raises doubts as to whether or not he realised that the person with whom he was dealing was a policeman , or that he did not realise that what he was doing would make the task of the policeman more difficult . |
| 25 | In Parmenter the accused confessed to causing injuries to his three-month-old son but said that he did not realise that what he was doing would injure him . |
| 26 | The wise man back in Proverbs in chapter twenty eight and verse thirteen he says , he who conceals his transgression will not prosper but he who confesses and forsakes them will find compassion . |
| 27 | And they were so contemptuous of the Nazis and their cohorts they could not imagine that they themselves featured in the minds and machinations of such louts . |
| 28 | With charming naivety , they do not imagine that they themselves are the source of it : they behave as they do when they see a frightened horse , becoming agitated and desirous of flight . |