Example sentences of "not [verb] what the [noun] " 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 | Many seemed not to know what the knives and forks were for and took the napkins for handkerchiefs . |
| 4 | We do not know what the consultants originally said when they first produced a draft for the promoter , and what they were then asked to add afterwards to make it a little more toothsome for the promoters , to make it a safer version of the environmental impact assessment . |
| 5 | We still do not know what the Government 's aims and objectives at Maastricht are . |
| 6 | He could not interpret the hand gestures and did not know what the offworlder was thinking . |
| 7 | We do not know what the staying-on rate will be until the autumn , and it is capable of further revision during the year . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I do not know what the majority here or in the country may think about it . |
| 10 | She did not know what the message was : Lee in this state was no longer a lovelorn friend but a trauma . |
| 11 | I do not know what the Anglo-Saxons called a rabbit , a candidate for description , I should have thought . |
| 12 | I do not know what the hilarity is about , but please carry on . |
| 13 | The institutions did not know what the criteria or standards were , and the process of validation normally meant two or three visits to the institution — with the first visit being a learning process for the institution , to hear what the process was all about . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | This has not yet been discovered and we do not know what the machines are for — rather as nineteenth-century people did not know about plutonium and nuclear reactors — so we do not know what such developments will lead to in terms of aesthetic and economic considerations , and eventually the effects on the landscape and the settlements in it . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I do not know what the Secretary of State is doing now to an article . |
| 18 | Does he not know what the facts are ? |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ I do not know what the outcome will be as there are an awful lot of issues which are unclear . |
| 22 | Out popped a very strange gentleman from this aircraft that I noticed had American markings , but I still did not know what the aircraft was , I had a vague idea but I was not sure . |
| 23 | She did not know what the matter was but knew instinctively that this was the right thing to do . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | We can not know what the future will bring ; nor did he . |
| 26 | We did not know what the future might hold and had to face the possibility that we may not see each other again . |
| 27 | Hankin , as well as the players , press and supporters , do not know what the future holds . |
| 28 | Scott replied : ‘ I do not know what the future may hold , but authorities have no power to provide cash now ’ . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |