Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [vb base] n't [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to NMW coordinator Jan Martins , some employers do n't just have separate canteens for different grades of staff , they even have two sorts of lavatory paper — soft for the senior executive and , you guessed it , the scratchy kind for your humbler bottom . |
| 2 | Mica says she thinks this show is really good with Tom recording all different types of music throughtout the series and proves that some singers do n't just go on TV to plug their latest hits , but have influencess and do n't mind talking about them . |
| 3 | However , learning about your own sexual nature and how to express your sexual feelings do n't just come naturally — despite what popular songs may say . |
| 4 | Some girls do n't even want to ask in case their parents get angry and ban them from seeing their boyfriends . |
| 5 | A few players do n't even know what is the capital of France when they 're in Paris playing the French Open . |
| 6 | It is n't their height but their shapely form that attracts discerning hillgoers , and since many of the tops are not included in tick lists — some of the Scottish ones do n't even get Corbett status — they tend not to be as popular as their loftier neighbours . |
| 7 | The key issue that emerges is that many private companies do n't actually want what they ought to have , which is more long term loans and more private equity , and less overdrafts and their short term loans . |
| 8 | Violent men do n't usually stop to reason first . |
| 9 | Even blindingly obvious and crucial insights do n't usually come instantly — it took us 24 hours to realise that the part-concealed agenda behind IBM 's December closures was that the company was signalling the death of the mainframe , a couple of months to realise that the executive search committee of IBM non-executive directors had n't a clue what it should be looking for in a new chief executive for IBM — because they themselves did n't have the computer industry background they needed to recognise how vital such a background would be to the person assuming the post . |
| 10 | These objects do n't just pass data values , but field names and types as well . |
| 11 | These statements do n't simply classify a child as falling into a particular group . |
| 12 | These things do n't really lose their snap and savour without smoking , but thinking that they might do can distract one from enjoying them properly . |
| 13 | As Pound confessed in another letter in 1933 : ‘ Most Cantos have in them ‘ binding matter ’ , i.e. lines holding them into the whole poem and these passages do n't much help the reader of an isolated fragment … |
| 14 | Your daily dozen exercises do n't just stop here ! |
| 15 | These games do n't really hurt me , only yourself . |
| 16 | Erm now , something that puzzled me for quite a long time when I started out doing philosophy of language er one or two years ago erm frequently you hear claims or we hear claims to the effect that this is a logical form of this sentence or this is the structure of this sentence , or this is the semantic structure of this sentence and I was never quite sure what that actually meant erm it 's partly because apart from Davidson , erm a lot of people who write on these issues do n't actually tell you what the background theory is and exactly what the point of the assignment of structured sentences is supposed to be , erm however after thinking about it for a while , I 've arrived at the following following general view there are at least three rather different enterprises er which might lead you to assign sentence structure and er one needs to figure out the relations between them . |
| 17 | LAST-MINUTE bargains do n't always mean a midnight flight to the Costas . |
| 18 | Small , little-known groups do n't generally muster a large audience , of course , but they are often a good way of commanding interest from future employers . |
| 19 | And I would be interested just to know how many performances do n't actually break even . |
| 20 | A surprising amount of liberty is granted to something that many parents do n't quite trust , and whose ‘ activities ’ tend to go unsupervised . |
| 21 | A surprising number of inexperienced pilots have n't really thought about how they would tackle having to land in a field . |
| 22 | If art is an attempt to impose structure and meaning onto this chaos , there is no artefact more deliberately structured than the contemporary Hollywood movie , designed to prise money from the masses and reasssure them that good guys do n't necessarily finish last . |
| 23 | Harriet was concerned it would mean suffering for the wretched animals and it does seem wrong that , for example , under EEC rules the poor beasts do n't even have to be fed and watered so frequently during transport as under our rules . |
| 24 | The trouble is , those images do n't just appeal to girls , they give them complexes about themselves ; worrying about what they should look like , act like , talk like , walk like . |
| 25 | Non-city dwellers may still be able to burn coal or logs in their fireplaces , but today 's busy lifestyles do n't usually allow time for tending them . |
| 26 | Short windows do n't necessarily have to have short curtains which only really look good in small cottagy or attic windows . |
| 27 | Double dissociations do n't only favour modular organization , they suggest a particular type : complementary systems . |
| 28 | It should be remembered that disabled drivers do n't always have only walking disability , but probably other illnesses as well which is not helped by officious traffic wardens . |
| 29 | To be fair the answer was in the manual but this only highlights the fact that the various packages do n't automatically integrate themselves with the InteMate manager . |
| 30 | But successful negotiations do n't just happen . |