Example sentences of "what they [verb] not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The question is one of the proper interpretation of the words enacted by Parliament and it could be that the Act does what the committee thought was not practicable and what they did not intend to do . |
| 2 | What they did not do is cohabit in advance of the wedding , which could well be a good thing if we choose to take seriously a recent report which says cohabitees who subsequently marry are 60% more likely to divorce than those who marry without first living together . |
| 3 | What they did not foresee was that people got the impression they were going to be crushed or trampled underfoot and , though the 30,000 portions of pie were eaten , many people opted to stay away . |
| 4 | It is difficult to escape the conclusion , however , that hard-headed Protestants found it easier to attack what they did not like in magic without compromising their religion . |
| 5 | What they did not profess to understand was how it could be terminated . |
| 6 | What they did not realize was that the express train had a restaurant car and the slow train did not . |
| 7 | What they did not know was Kylie 's principles now prevented her from even touching them . |
| 8 | What they did not know — and perhaps Mr Desai did not know either — was that urine contains large amounts of melatonin — a chemical secreted by the pineal gland which is involved ( no one knows how ) in setting the body 's natural rhythms . |
| 9 | What they did not know was that their legendary luck was about to run out . |
| 10 | What they did not know was that in ten years time , that beautiful picture was to be blighted by Britain 's first commercial nuclear power station . |
| 11 | What they did not know was that the examination of the diamonds had finished before midnight to the complete satisfaction of Zack and his accomplices . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | What they did not know they could imagine . |
| 14 | What they knew , what they did n't know , and what they did not wish to know tied people in some terrible knots . |
| 15 | What they did not seem to perceive was that non-intervention in the Spanish conflict was part of the policy of appeasement then being followed by the western powers , or that , even if a European war began before the Spanish conflict were settled , the European democracies would be reluctant to take on extended commitments , especially if this meant running the risk — as they saw it — of assisting communism on Europe 's southern flank . |
| 16 | What they do not tell , however , is the human dimension of the Pacific story — the human reasons behind the staggering growth of the region , the ways in which this virtuoso performance actually affects the lives of the men , women and children of the Pacific , and the ways in which the Pacific people are different in outlook , aspirations , fears and needs from those who live beyond the Ocean . |
| 17 | If we go back to the criterion of incompetence described at the outset , their actions are incompetent in the sense that they produce what they do not intend , and they do so repeatedly , even though no one is forcing them to do so . |
| 18 | But what they do not show is what teenage girls feel . |
| 19 | They are ‘ justified ’ by the grace of God that gives them what they do not deserve , and by the ‘ faith ’ which grasps that proffered gift and responds in obedient dedication to that proffered love . |
| 20 | This is true even of immaterial rights : a right to free speech is a claim to say to others what they do not want to hear , and to do so , if necessary , thanks to the exercise of force against those who would like to interfere . |
| 21 | If they do not know what they want , they know what they do not want : not school , not set college syllabus , not residential home , not training scheme , not assessment , not sheltered employment , not activity centre . |
| 22 | Grades are more to be blamed for what they do not do than for what they do do . |
| 23 | What they do not do is to make the case for charging token sums to a small minority of users . |
| 24 | So nectar-feeding butterflies in their adult form can only be active during the summer and bees must work frantically hard , gathering what pollen and nectar they can while it is available , and storing what they do not need immediately , to nourish their colony through the barren season . |
| 25 | What they do not see , of course , are the tears at the sheer frustration of it all when it hits home at two in the morning . |
| 26 | Allow plenty of time for them to find out what they do not know and summarize to bring together the strands of the discussion to a point where you both understand the proposed action . |
| 27 | What they do not like is being let down . |
| 28 | Few of the business-men and politicians who get excited about it know quite what it means , but they know what they do not like . |
| 29 | What they do not say is that on this ‘ best ’ measure , police performance has in fact improved marginally , not declined ( from 7.9 in 1972 to 9.6 in 1986 . ) |
| 30 | Those of you who are involved in deciding whether to apply for a place in further or higher education will already know a good deal about how to read prospectuses without believing everything they say : what they do not say is just as important . |