Example sentences of "of [pron] [pers pn] [verb] not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for patients , most are satisfied by all aspects of emergency consultations with deputising service doctors , most of whom they do not know . |
| 2 | Emigrants — what proportion of them we do not know — dreamed of making their pile abroad and returning home , rich and respected , to their native villages . |
| 3 | After another round of serious negotiations the ARC finally agreed to release the report , the hard statistical evidence , but not the case studies , the interpretation of which they did not consider to be ‘ objective . ’ |
| 4 | On paper , the Democrats had comfortable majorities in the House ( 262–174 ) and the Senate ( 65–35 ) ; but an alliance of conservative southern Democrats and Republicans blocked the passage of legislation of which they did not approve . |
| 5 | The fact that the elderly parents acted reasonably and did nothing wrong and yet entered into an agreement , the ramifications of which they did not appreciate , did not affect the creditor so as to afford equitable relief to the parents . |
| 6 | Life in the slum forces parents to adopt child-rearing methods of which they do not approve , and Wilson concludes that ‘ in the world of poverty the material preconditions necessary for child-centred parenting do not exist ’ . |
| 7 | Their consequence for the tiny particles was only apparently random and unpredictable , due to the hidden atomic motions of which we did not have adequately detailed knowledge . |
| 8 | Therefore , a transfer from the husband to husband and wife " to hold upon the trusts of a declaration of trust of even date " may be rejected by the registrar , for its wording puts him on notice of a trust the terms of which he does not know . |
| 9 | It was reported that in 1985 and 1986 , objection was taken by the Lord Chancellor to Lord Justice Brown-Wilkinson 's participation in public debates as a result of which he did not appear . |
| 10 | After all the doubts and uncertainties , wrote Harsnet , most of which I did not admit to myself , or else tried to pretend were an integral part of the project , sense now that it is on its way . |
| 11 | The meadows were scattered with wild flowers some of which I did not recognise . |
| 12 | My hon. Friend has made the point clearly and I am grateful to him for doing so , in view of which I do not think a debate is necessary . |
| 13 | I looked at Jean-Claude as he gave me these instructions and I saw a side of him I did not recognize . |
| 14 | Some of it they did not believe ; some of it she did not report . |
| 15 | Your Royal Highness , it follows to me er Council have debated the Riding Report er a lot of it they did not accept , many of the ideas were referred back for further reconsideration and that is in the hands of the Central Management Committee at the moment and we are proposing to develop the ideas and come back to Council and the wh whole report is not forgotten . |
| 16 | Some of it they did not believe ; some of it she did not report . |
| 17 | we did translation , Xenophon , I do not know a word of it I do not think Greek alone makes me miserable , I am always miserable . |
| 18 | declared , ‘ It has long been a rule well established ( the origin of it I do not recollect ) that you can not get discovery except from a party to your action . |
| 19 | of what we do not mean , up against the skin , |
| 20 | Of course , it is true that outside the small clearing of what we know lies the unexplored forest of what we do not know . |
| 21 | The deeper reason for our doubt — and faith — is that even what we know rests only on the foundations of what we do not know . |
| 22 | In modern times we have effectively eliminated possibility 3 by incorporating it within our scheme : Quantum mechanics is essentially a theory of what we do not know and can not predict . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Elizabeth was also asked if she would like to make a list of what she does not like about community living but could not think of anything for the moment . |
| 25 | She saw unshadowed earth in yellow light , more vines , new shoots of what she did not recognise as young maize . |