Example sentences of "[verb] not [vb infin] [be] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | What Dorrainge did not realise was that Lugh was being subtle . |
| 2 | What Philby did not guess was that , having warned Maclean for him , Burgess would join him on the night ferry to St Malo en route to Moscow , on 25 May 1951 . |
| 3 | What this argument did not anticipate was that new , flexible methods of manufacturing made possible by electronics sharply reduced the minimum economies of plant scale . |
| 4 | What I did not know was that English soccer was televised in Algeria . |
| 5 | But what the rest of the candidates did not know was that Pilger had already earmarked someone for the job — the man who had gatecrashed the capitalization-day party — Keith Sutton of the Wapping Post . |
| 6 | What he did not know was that Chemical had run into massive internal problems . |
| 7 | But what the man did not know was that Angel One had also encompassed a darker facet in his mastery of the martial arts , namely a knowledge of ninjutsu , the deadly art of the ancient Japanese assassins from the Clan of Death — the Ninja . |
| 8 | What these boardroom blouses and toerags at the turnstiles do not realise is that football management is not a skill to be acquired through hard work , but a gift from God . |
| 9 | What they did n't realize was that for me , women in the end have everything because they have the ability to create life . |
| 10 | What they do n't realise is that sycamore reacts with light . |
| 11 | But what many people do n't realise is that long-term conservation , particularly in the Third World , is going to depend , whether we like it or not , more on the economic state of the country than on appealing to the better nature of its politicians . |
| 12 | I do n't want Is that the bigger box ? |
| 13 | The only thing that perhaps they do n't handle is that intermediate area , which the AC30 is very good at — where you can strike a chord and it 's distorted , but you can still hear what the chord is . ’ |
| 14 | I do n't know is that a king ? |
| 15 | the only one I do n't like is that bloody oh erm , what 's the other one , deep sea water , something lately for kids , his got his own kiddies programme , Maid Marian , take the piss out of |
| 16 | You do n't about this cappuccino is I do n't understand is that here Maxwell cappuccino is |
| 17 | What the author does n't say is that selection interviews , although the most commonly used method of assessing candidates , are in themselves prone to bias and prejudice . |