Example sentences of "[conj] people [verb] not [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The separation and spatial spread of social life means that people do not regularly encounter the significant experiences of life : birth , sexuality , madness , illness , death and so on . |
| 2 | The reason that people do not generally look into alternative credit terms in any detail certainly is not that they feel pushed willy-nilly into one particular type of credit . |
| 3 | We suppose , for instance , that what somebody says to us will be relevant to the occasion or to what has just been said , that people do not just issue utterances at random . |
| 4 | ‘ The figures show that people do not really watch television to be informed , they watch it to relax , ’ said David Graham , whose research company compiled the top 100 . |
| 5 | Yet the Profitboss is not so naive as to believe that people do not occasionally betray trust , do not occasionally fiddle their expenses , do not occasionally get sloppy and hire unnecessary staff . |
| 6 | Although people do not always do what they say they do , where there is a mismatch between what they do and say , we can assume that there is some reason for this . |
| 7 | This had been quite difficult and the Gnomes had scratched their heads a good deal , because , although people did not openly refer to it , everyone knew that Flame 's father was Fael-Inis and it had meant a lot of worrisome discussions as to whether this fact ought to be openly acknowledged , or whether it might be discourteous to draw attention to it . |
| 8 | Furthermore , it is said , as native speakers of a language seem able to recognize correct and incorrect sentences , the idea of there being language rules exemplified in such sentences does seem to correspond to some kind of reality , even if people do not always speak according to these abstracted rules . |
| 9 | However , there is a further piece of evidence , which can be used to show how historical circumstances can produce a dramatic demystification of the monarchy , which would not be possible if people did not already possess the ideological tools for critical demystification . |
| 10 | If people did not naturally groan , grimace , or whatever , ‘ then it would be impossible to teach a child the use of the word ‘ tooth-ache ’ ’ . |
| 11 | But people did not persistently use the same media in the same way . |
| 12 | This is basically economic provision , not social , it was argued since people do not necessarily use new facilities although they cost the taxpayer money . |