Example sentences of "not [vb infin] about [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But as a competitor , you do not think about politics and you just hope everyone will be there . ’ |
| 2 | I am sorry to say I did not think about dear , good Joe at all . |
| 3 | I 'm sure we would not quarrel about payment . ’ |
| 4 | I do not know about illness in his family . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The author 's job is to know about literature ; what he might or might not know about life is irrelevant to that job . |
| 7 | More recently studies have attempted to refine their research methodologies so that reviews of this research are much clearer about what we can claim to know and not know about abuse and in particular that it is a much more complex problem than was first thought . |
| 8 | Hunting is very complicated and most people do not know about hunting or how it is done so they do n't like it and say that it is cruel . |
| 9 | Spontaneous and unrehearsed music seems to be acceptable to clergy who do not know about music . |
| 10 | In Darwin 's lifetime , physicists did not know about radioactivity , and therefore thought that the earth would cool down rather quickly . |
| 11 | But she did not know about religion . |
| 12 | Perhaps it speaks to a part of our mind that does not know about self-control — a part that remembers the time when we were entirely in someone else 's power and they , in a certain sense , were in ours . |
| 13 | Here two out of every three farmers/part-time farmers did not know about training activities . |
| 14 | But pluralists , like Shils , would put any conflict , even the most profound , into the context of societal integration , to the extent that one can not speak about society without at the same time making statements about the integration of society . |
| 15 | I think we 'd best not speak about paper darts and cries for help . |
| 16 | This is why the New Testament does not speak about child-bearing being the basis for marriage . |
| 17 | In this way , RMI does not become about computer systems , or medical audit or about attaching costs to everything . |
| 18 | Elizabeth was also asked if she would like to make a list of what she does not like about community living but could not think of anything for the moment . |
| 19 | Zuwaya did not sociologize about statelessness , nor did they argue its value from first principles . |
| 20 | She did not , in his view , understand ritual and language , she did not speculate about theology , she used her heart too much without her head . |
| 21 | They were also the most likely to say the Government does not care about education ( 92 pc compared with 66pc ) . |
| 22 | She saw women , old gnarled Italian housewives , who did not care about popularity , who were quite composed in the face of sour looks , getting fruit and vegetables and even meat at a quarter the price paid by her affable husband and she resolved to become one of these women . |
| 23 | Is not it really the case that the Government do not care about training , that we have a disastrous training record and that it is high time that we had a Labour Government to tackle the problems ? |
| 24 | Igor Bashmekov , an economist from Moscow 's Institute for Energy Research , put it most succinctly : ‘ Citizens do not care about carbon . ’ |
| 25 | I do not care about information being able to reach my home VDU so fast that the Encyclopaedia Britannica can get there in five seconds . |
| 26 | Is the right hon. Gentleman trying to tell us that other Community Governments , many with economies more successful than ours , do not care about employment , about costs and about competitiveness ? |
| 27 | That suggests that the Labour party does not care about employment . |
| 28 | He does not talk about philosophy any more : he has got too many grenades in his pockets . |
| 29 | Oh I 'll not talk about meat ! |
| 30 | Among themselves , however , as the tape-recorder wound on , the Americans did not talk about peace . |