Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] [verb] not [vb infin] [adj] " 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 | But after initiation into an exhilarating world of sex , drugs and high-stakes risk , Michael finds that rewards do n't come cheap and Alex is a difficult friend to lose . |
| 5 | Corporation tax is based on an imputation system , which means that in most cases the liability to corporation tax is the same whether the firm pays dividends or not , and that shareholders do not face double taxation on their dividends . |
| 6 | He reckoned that gentlemen did n't have such experiences . |
| 7 | The conference lamented the fact that manufacturers did not produce small packs of goods for single-person households , and that retailers paid little or no attention to the needs of consumers who were handicapped by age or poverty . |
| 8 | A well-designed communication structure can do much to minimize this by recognizing the fact that words do not have specific meanings until they are defined for a particular purpose . |
| 9 | On the other hand , some staff may have underestimated dependency in order that homes did not appear understaffed . |
| 10 | Increasing recognition of how oppositional images get incorporated and redefined in ‘ mainstream ’ fashion , coupled with an awareness that images do not have fixed meanings and can be subverted , has led to a re-evaluation of traditionally ‘ erotic ’ clothes . |
| 11 | It may also be necessary to ensure that parents do not become over-zealous in their commitment to a particular kind of therapeutic activity to the extent that it limits , rather than expands , the child 's experiences , or dominates the lives of other members of the family . |
| 12 | The other is that draughtsmen do not spend all their time actually drawing . |
| 13 | It is important that dogs do not become accustomed to sleeping in your bedroom . |
| 14 | Publishers must ensure that universities do not become vast , cheap rate republishing businesses . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The stock exchange 's ostensible reason for stopping the grey market was that investors did not have enough information about the Zeneca issue for trading to be ‘ fair ’ . |
| 17 | But the advantage of the book was that things did n't go wrong , he could control his existence , predict , re-write history . |
| 18 | Fortunate that things do n't happen all at the same time . |
| 19 | It was hard to explain that things do n't work that way in Hull . |
| 20 | The scheme has been welcomed by the National Farmers Union as a cheap method of ensuring that farmers do not harbour illegal chemicals . |
| 21 | This is partly due to the fear of serious side-effects , especially in premature infants , but also because of the persisting idea that infants do not perceive painful or unpleasant stimuli as severely as older children and adults . |
| 22 | Sometimes it is clear that siblings do not like each other . |
| 23 | It is not that cats do not enjoy all the aforementioned nocturnal pleasures , it is that nightlife is too dangerous for them . |
| 24 | But it is becoming increasingly plain that symbols do not stand alone and can be understood only in a wider context of associations and contrasts . |
| 25 | But Paradox 4 , which Borland unveiled last August , proved that Windows does n't get all the best tunes — or the best development talent , or the greatest ideas , or the biggest bouquets . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The United States and its allies agreed on several measures including the possible use of US air power to protect UN forces in Muslim ‘ safe areas ’ in Bosnia and to ensure that arms do not reach Bosnian Serbs from Serbia . |
| 28 | You 'd have thought they were best friends or something , except that girls do n't have proper friends the way boys do . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Some teachers felt that the advisers were out of touch with the problems they were having in this respect and saw more oral work as an unrealistic expectation — that pupils did not consider oral as work and were often not prepared to listen , thus to try to do it would only be creating problems . |