Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] do not [vb infin] [det] " in BNC.

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1 The more advanced monkeys or apes do not have any kind of protective armour and use brain rather than brawn to solve their problems , but the slow-moving little relative of the bushbabies known as Bosman 's potto does have a secret defence rather like the hero shrew 's .
2 The normal rules apply where applications do not have this effect although there may be a good argument for transferring such cases up to the High Court .
3 Where children do not carry these assumptions inside them , it is because they have been brought up in an enclave that is struggling against the weight of secular pressure .
4 Possibly even more damaging to the potential of the Light Rifle is the fact that Stack do n't provide any driver routines for programmers .
5 The other is that draughtsmen do not spend all their time actually drawing .
6 Another of his plans is to have ‘ task forces ’ to coordinate research into the major killer diseases , so that teams do not overlap each other and duplicate work .
7 Fortunate that things do n't happen all at the same time .
8 It was hard to explain that things do n't work that way in Hull .
9 Sometimes it is clear that siblings do not like each other .
10 It is not that cats do not enjoy all the aforementioned nocturnal pleasures , it is that nightlife is too dangerous for them .
11 A ND you resist all eye contact , remembering the words of barrister Caradog Morgan who earlier this year , in defending one Victoria Carrington , freelance insurance consultant accused of assaulting two fellow passengers because they had joggled her newspaper and dared to look at her right in the face , said , ‘ There is a convention on the Underground that people do not look each other in the eye . ’
12 I feel that for a country with so much to offer , it 's a great pity that people do not take more advantage of what 's available .
13 Neither is it a question of ‘ working for it ’ , nor , to put it the other way , that people do not have more land because they are not prepared to work for it .
14 Looking back into the past , people are eager for an explanation to be given to them by Thames and I do think that people do n't feel that 's what they 've had so far .
15 To make sure that we 're able to put our point across clearly so that we speak in a clear way so that people do n't have any er doubts as to what you actually mean .
16 GEORGE III is reputed to have said that lawyers do not know much more law than other people , but they know better where to find it .
17 In other words , a market economy is an efficient way of producing wealth ; the reason it is more efficient than a planned economy in which prices are not competitive is that prices do not convey this information .
18 He says the ruling shops that travellers do n't have any rights .
19 Indeed , this latter aspect of femininity is emphasized by some recent writers on masculinity who protest that men do not have such a wonderful deal in the world , since the social pressures on them to contain rather than express their emotions are oppressive and restrictive , stunting their full emotional development .
20 Arthur Andersen , for example , says that the risk that a long-standing association with a client may impair objectivity is perceived , rather than actual , but concedes that something needs to be done ‘ so that others do not perceive that objectivity can be compromised ’ .
21 But I mean otherwise it 's got all the , all the good points in there , it 's a pity that councils do n't have these meaningful names
22 I talk about a textual body , and then I talk about a body that I inhabit and so many make bastions and institutions do n't want that .
23 Thus the findings of Newcombe and Ratcliffe do not confirm those of Hécaen and Sauguet .
24 Rights and privileges do not pose any particular problems in the case of children .
25 Guilt and regret do not make these any easier to come to terms with .
26 Maturity , at least for me , seems to lie in the discovery that happiness and circumstances do n't have all that much to do with each other ; that happiness is more a matter of choice and habit than we suppose , and less dependent upon the accident of circumstances .
27 Halliday and Hasan do not discuss this type of referential linkage and Hoey ( 1988 : 162 ) points out that co-reference ‘ is not strictly a linguistic feature at all but a matter of real-world knowledge ’ .
28 It seems possible , provided pickers do not wipe each other out first .
29 If containers do not have any drainage outlets , cover the base with at least 1 cm ( ½ in ) depth of drainage crocks , shingle , etc .
30 There may be many reasons why the husband and wife do not make any formal agreement about separation , but this should not entitle a husband to return and force himself upon his wife weeks , months , or even years since he last saw her .
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