Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adv] [vb infin] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 They hardly saw each other & did not leave space for each other !
2 In 1739 ( and , later , in 1763 ) Acts were passed empowering the justices ‘ to raise and levy such able-bodied men as have not any lawfyl calling or employment … or do not make use of any lawful means for their support and maintenance , to serve as soldiers ’ .
3 I think that its , its choice that 's something we have n't sort of looked at tonight , I think its the important er factor in a fact that we 've got an audience here with a large representative er percentage of er access to a car and certainly erm I working in the transport field in West Central Scotland , er that is not the case , in Glasgow where the car ownership is something in the order of seventy per cent of the population do not have access to a car or do not have access in a household , we , you are then talking , you have to look very , very seriously at what public transport must provide in order to meet just day , day to day activities and I think that this choice aspect is something that is absolutely vital as the lady in front says .
4 Papers that did not include a control group , were not randomised , did not allow calculation of ‘ intention to treat ’ results , or did not collect information on mortality or the incidence of respiratory or gastrointestinal infection were excluded .
5 Other women did not want to adopt the ‘ unemployed ’ label associated with registering for work or did not want confirmation of their unemployed status .
6 And unless you 're on the council you ca n't go there and state your case , you 've got to go through someone else , who maybe does n't understand it or does n't have feeling in it , and so it just does n't work really . ’
7 The listing below is interspersed with comments that do not form part of the program .
8 In such cases functional assessment methods are indispensable , and show the value of behavioural methods of working that do not assume consciousness as a fundamental human quality .
9 I am aware of journals that do not acknowledge receipt of papers submitted to them .
10 But what about those conflicts that do not take place within such a constituted social system , such as conflictual bourgeois societies which can not be said to be unified , except , as Sartre suggests dismissively , by appeal to a lost paradise before the class struggle ?
11 Unleaded ( minimum octane of 95 ) is for all petrol vehicles that do not need lead for ‘ valve ’ lubrication .
12 The Oriental departments offer several courses that do not require knowledge of exotic languages but do provide an opportunity for the study of the eastern civilisations , ancient and modern .
13 English is one of the languages that do not use tone in this way though tones or pitch differences are used for other purposes ; such languages are sometimes called intonation languages .
14 That do not shut light from your house
15 ‘ I 've got things in my head that came from nowhere , ’ he said , ‘ things that do n't make sense to me .
16 Collapsing companies : Try to order from companies that do n't require payment in advance because there 's little chance of getting your money back if the trader goes bust .
17 He tried , and felt himself falling into the tree , confused , unable to find a stance that did not give way into clutching twigs and flailing branches .
18 A high-rise block of flats had been clamped down on a street that did not think well of itself at the best of times .
19 The report also criticises company secretary Bruce Gray , for preparing minutes of board meetings that did not take place without checking the fact of the meetings and the decisions reached .
20 The authors argue that ‘ attempts to evaluate effectiveness have shown little or no benefit , ’ although among the references they quote are three studies that did not entail counselling in the accepted sense of the term at all , two of which produced distinctly positive results .
21 By the time that I began to work with Ahmed and Amitha , I had resolved within myself that I could n't be anything other than a Black lesbian and that was in itself its own political identity , one that did not require validation from either the women 's , gay or Black movements .
22 Leeson was looking around for inspiration , a topic that did n't rub salt into wounds .
23 He must seek the advice of the wisest money-brokers and buy a pension scheme if he be self-employed ; he must see to it that he does not over-extend himself on the mortgage front ; he must run a motor car that does n't drink petrol like tapwater and wo n't break him every time it needs a service from a franchised dealer ; above all , he must abstain from vicious pleasures — or if he needs must indulge , then he must do so only in moderation .
24 It 's all speculation at present , however Britain is only one of two countries in the European Community that does n't levy VAT on newspapers and the subject has been on the agenda for some time .
25 Since the problems at Strangeways , prison violence has rarely appeared in the headlines , but John Bartell , chairman of the Prison Officers Association says that does n't mean violence in our jails has decreased .
26 We aim to build a society that does not create wealth at the expense of the environment .
27 We aim to build a society that does not create wealth at the expense of the environment .
28 This plant exports the chips to Japan for processing but the scheme to replace the original forest with plantation to sustain the plant indefinitely has foundered because it has not been demonstrated that timber-growing is a worthwhile economic activity that does not threaten ownership of the land .
29 However , if the scheme is viewed as one that does not tax interest on savings , then more consumption in the future can be financed from a given volume of savings and those seeking a target future consumption can meet it with a lower level of current savings .
30 ‘ There is nothing wrong in them having a working relationship that does not involve closeness of any other kind .
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