Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] [adv] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously the old bookmakers pitches could not stay where they were and had to be moved . |
| 2 | They quite simply can not explain WHY they believe WHAT they believe , and so rather than admit their ignorance about their own faith , they just shut up . |
| 3 | Priority has been given to the juristic sources so far , since the concern here is with interpretation , and documents clearly do not attest how they were themselves interpreted . |
| 4 | They may not recognise when they are in danger , for example when crossing a busy road , or they may not know how to carry out even the most basic safety precautions necessary for the prevention of fire , accidents and infection . |
| 5 | When the other person is an unknown commodity and we can not predict how they will react , the greater is our requirement for the armour of indirectness . |
| 6 | Chodorow and Bem , for example , note their middle-class biases , but do not explore how they affect their concepts of family socialization . |
| 7 | There was something in Mrs Maugham 's solid air of conscious rectitude that threw a faint shadow of guilt over everyone who approached her , though as often as not people did not know why they were guilty : her disapprovals were so vast and public , her approvals so private and ill-chartered that all immediately cast themselves as goats in the discrimination of her gaze . |
| 8 | The mothers were asked to avoid cow 's milk , and were then challenged with it in a disguised form , so that they would not know when they were drinking milk and when they were drinking the ‘ control ’ substance . |
| 9 | The problem can more easily arise for young academics , who are close in age to their students and do not know when they are crossing an invisible line . |
| 10 | If you do not know they are there , or if you do not know where they are , you will miss them . |
| 11 | I do not know where they get these dogs . |
| 12 | They had had to pass straight through some of the villages which were completely full and did not know where they would go next , but would stop at the first village in which they could park their coach . |
| 13 | He did not know where they were heading , but already it was clear the destination would not be of his choosing . |
| 14 | What the three thousand four hundred are saying is that the County Council and British Coal do not know where they 're going with this thing , the full implications of it have either not been properly assessed or indeed not been released to the to the local communities . |
| 15 | Who can be surprised that ordinary people do not know where they stand ? |
| 16 | The vice of uncertainty in relation to the duration of a term is that the parties do not know where they stand . |
| 17 | I do not know how they communicate with each other , but their organisation is formidable . |
| 18 | The use of index numbers and special ratios should always be undertaken with care since they may contain hidden dangers if one does not know how they are compiled and , very often , how they are ‘ corrected ’ for a variety of reasons . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , the writing remains as something separate from the experience and if teachers do not know how they can usefully respond to the writing as a text , then their part in helping children improve their writing is insignificant . |
| 20 | but in the country er public transport is essential but er access to a car is ess is really essential and for those who ca n't afford it I do not know how they survive in the country . |
| 21 | He did not know how they would have known his household routines . |
| 22 | To begin with , they left it too late — but , measuring the distance from Shiel Bridge way below and behind me , and judging the terrain , even though this modern road has been impressively built , I do not know how they might have bettered their arrangements . |
| 23 | We do not know how they were elected ; but in practice it can hardly have been more than a co-optation . |
| 24 | No , I am not astonished because , two years after announcing its local government plans , the Labour party still does not know how they would work . |
| 25 | I do not know how they are made up . |
| 26 | People sometimes say they bear no malice but I do not know how they can say that . |
| 27 | The Serbs did not mind how they disposed of the Muslims , so long as the area was ‘ ethnically cleansed ’ . |
| 28 | ‘ I can well understand the feelings of the minority , but I can not understand why they 're offended , ’ said Mr Sliudikas , another district secretary in the capital . |
| 29 | We know they are different — if they were identical we would not need to consult the doctor for purposes other than access to resources — but we can not understand why they differ in these particular ways . |
| 30 | Colonel John Sidney North , on the other hand , spoke for the majority of Punch enthusiasts in the House , and ‘ could not understand why they should be so mealy-mouthed about flogging a set of ruffians ’ , denouncing anyone who dissented from flogging as ‘ a wretched old woman for his lenity ’ . |