Example sentences of "[verb] not [vb infin] [is] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | So far as the issues of English law are concerned , it is , as Mr. Beazley fairly recognised , almost inevitable that these cases , in view of the very difficult legal problems and of the very large sums of money at stake , will , unless settled , proceed in the end , as did the Hazell case , to the highest court ; thus even if there was a prospect of irreconcilable decisions at first instance or on intermediate appeal , which I do not think is likely , the final arbiters in the House of Lords will be able to give one single decision which will be binding in both England and Scotland , and with no possibility of irreconcilability . |
| 3 | An impression has undoubtedly gained ground — which I do not think is fair to the Wolfenden Committee — that the Committee desired to legalise homosexual conduct . |
| 4 | What we do not need is another socialist experiment starting next Thursday . |
| 5 | ‘ We are trying to turn around a situation we do not deny is difficult , ’ admits one Ferruzzi executive . |
| 6 | He is a young player with loads of confidence and ability and although he did n't produce is usual form yesterday he still will be very much in the Games plans . |
| 7 | I 've gone to the local Council and er unfortunately they 've said to me that I 'd have to go on a waiting list ; the housing aid have said the only thing they could offer me is bed and breakfast which I 'm sorry to say I do n't think is suitable to bring two children up in . |
| 8 | We have a great deal of sympathy er but whereas I do n't think some of the ideas that have been floated tonight for a Cornwall and Gibraltar West seat er or erm any kind of link up between Cornwall and any tail end of a Welsh seat we do n't think is practical and I think he 's got ta solve this problem er within the confines of Cornwall being regarded as part of England if not Anglo Saxon . |
| 9 | That kind of thing which I do n't think is any damn good at all . |
| 10 | It 's we , we should n't accept anything that you know , we , we do n't think 's correct ! |
| 11 | Which we do n't think 's fair . |
| 12 | What they do n't realise is that sycamore reacts with light . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I do n't want Is that the bigger box ? |
| 15 | And one thing we do n't want is extra work . |
| 16 | What I do n't want is ten minutes of waffle and one and a half minutes of pure gold . |
| 17 | I do take on , I do take on one point that the Conservatives have begun to raise to make in their in their motion which what we do n't want is another heavy tier of bur bureaucracy . |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |
| 19 | Erm I suppose there are later on in the play er th characters speak to each other and say very good that stupid berk over there kind of aside , but what you do n't get is any structures of characters as such . |
| 20 | I do n't know is that a king ? |
| 21 | 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 |
| 22 | Er I mean it could just be that they do n't like it , so anything which they do n't like is grating or |
| 23 | You do n't about this cappuccino is I do n't understand is that here Maxwell cappuccino is |
| 24 | ‘ What I do n't understand is this , ’ said Apricot to Brenda , Belinda and Liese , ‘ why was Bernard Parkin sitting next to me on the stairs in the dark if he did n't want sex ! ’ |
| 25 | What the hon. Gentleman does not answer is this question : by putting up — |
| 26 | There can be no secret about them , for British Telecom says in its instructions , ‘ The customer may be told the hourly charge rate ’ , though whether he will be told if he does not ask is another matter . |
| 27 | To rush in and quantify a situation which one does not understand is wasteful of the time of both researchers and informants . |
| 28 | Where it does n't appear is crucial too . |
| 29 | 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 . |