Example sentences of "not [verb] what the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am the first to admit that it is not easy , although I do wonder why we in tennis still use that argument as an excuse for not seeing what the Americans call ‘ minority ’ players more prominent in the British game . |
| 2 | I can not think what the Riding , but not only the Riding , will be without him . |
| 3 | The legislation reflected a judgement that local authorities could not deliver what the national interest required . |
| 4 | Many seemed not to know what the knives and forks were for and took the napkins for handkerchiefs . |
| 5 | BRITISH sub-aqua divers are being warned not to desecrate what the Japanese say are their biggest war graves in the South Pacific . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I do not know what the sensuality of a man is . |
| 8 | I have a car badge belonging to the 159 Motor Club but do not know what the club is , or was , and have been unable to find out . |
| 9 | The captain did not know what the craft was carrying , though that was not unusual , and the line was under contract partly for its discretion . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | So instead they hedge their comments and the end result is the person being appraised still does not know what the organization thinks of them . |
| 12 | 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 ? |
| 13 | Even the most experienced police interrogator can not entirely avoid leading questions , simply because he can not know what the witness actually knows or what really happened . |
| 14 | It 's no excuse that the salesman did not know what the customer planned to do with the recorder , even if it is labelled with a warning about not taping copyright records or films . |
| 15 | I do not know what the Anglo-Saxons called a rabbit , a candidate for description , I should have thought . |
| 16 | She did not know what the message was : Lee in this state was no longer a lovelorn friend but a trauma . |
| 17 | If you do not know what the true variable costs are , how can you make correct decisions ? |
| 18 | At first Dinah did not understand ; the way he talked was strange to her , and in any case she did not know what the term meant . |
| 19 | 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 . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I do not know what the outcome will be as there are an awful lot of issues which are unclear . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The very freedom from mass accountability which allows it to do so also makes it difficult for leaders to know what society is thinking : without mechanisms for making needs known and understood , Polish and Soviet leaders simply can not know what the consequences of a rise in food prices or of other policy shifts will be . |
| 23 | In the 1980S , as the communications industries multiplied and expanded , and the number of policy-actors and centres of decision ( local and regional as well as national ( proliferated , it often appeared that the right hand did not know what the left was doing . |
| 24 | I do not know what the majority here or in the country may think about it . |
| 25 | She did not know what the matter was but knew instinctively that this was the right thing to do . |
| 26 | We can not know what the future will bring ; nor did he . |
| 27 | The other reason is that there are at least some rules for judging advertisements , but most of these are based firmly in the objectives which the ads are trying to achieve : if we do not know what the objectives are , any judgement we may make is without a real foundation . |
| 28 | ( g ) We do not know what the mother said to Miss T. , because she has not chosen to tell the court , but it appears to be the fact that on the two occasions when Miss T. raised the issue of blood transfusions , she did so suddenly and ‘ out of the blue ’ without any inquiry from hospital staff and immediately following occasions when she had been alone with her mother . |
| 29 | He could not interpret the hand gestures and did not know what the offworlder was thinking . |
| 30 | Most new mothers do not know what the Guthrie test is for : a considerable number incorrectly believe that it will detect more disorders than is the case . |