Example sentences of "[conj] they do not [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be part of the Foundation 's role in partnership at all levels to encourage development of networks where they do not already exist , and to reinforce them where they do — for greater consolidated strength and continuous intercommunication . |
| 2 | Methods of measuring cost will be developed where they do not already exist , and will be applied to scheme data . |
| 3 | ‘ Because my mother works in a hotel shop where they do n't really go a bundle on employing married women in the first place , so I do n't want to get her all into a fluster for nothing . |
| 4 | Diseases such as hepatitis and AIDS are known as " emerging viruses " , which , although they do not always threaten their original hosts , can destroy entire populations by moving on to new hosts and locations . |
| 5 | There are a number of international fixed interest unit trusts available , although they do not necessarily specialise entirely in European bonds . |
| 6 | Tumours of the ovary and testis are likewise hormone-related , although they do not usually respond to hormone therapy . |
| 7 | The words ‘ I ask you , son , to care for the lands which will come to you with your usual diligence and look after them so that they may come to your sons ’ , although they do not sufficiently express a trust but advice rather than obligation to leave the lands , are none the less regarded as having the force of a trust in favour of the grandsons after the death of their father . |
| 8 | They do n't actually get abroad a lot , in theory , although they do n't always stick too closely to their brief . |
| 9 | It can be argued that a similar approach should be taken to time limit clauses , on the basis that they do not wholly exclude liability , but require action to be taken swiftly . |
| 10 | The other major weakness of the proposals is that they do not properly identify the nature of the problem . |
| 11 | What is remarkable about the text-books ( which describe the chemical structure of the various chains in loving detail ) is not so much that they do not explain the discrepancy but that they do not even notice it ; nor are they apparently interested in the fact that the work of fracture for a material like Polythene or Nylon is at least a hundred times higher than it is for most of the thermosetting plastics . |
| 12 | The implication of all this is not only that weak businesses do worse in absolute terms , but that they do not even realize their own potential . |
| 13 | These are not a direct source of constitutional law in the sense that they do not normally involve any change in domestic law ( see , however The Parlement Belge ( H.C. , 1879 ) ) . |
| 14 | However , it follows at once that they do not strictly present us with a distinct adjective position , but just a special case of the predicative adjective already discussed in Chapter 3 . |
| 15 | There is therefore a clear place for an EC policy to oversee State aids , and so to ensure that they do not unjustifiably favour one member 's industry at the expense of another 's , and thereby mitigate the intentions of EC competition policy . |
| 16 | Assignments differ from practical exercises in that they do not necessarily involve strict adherence to a prescribed procedure and they are not concerned exclusively with manual skills . |
| 17 | However , if biographies of artists are carefully examined , it will be found that they do not necessarily contain much art criticism at all ; a biographer may prefer not to express personal views about the artist 's work ; a book 's main thrust may be to describe the artist 's own aims and ideas . |
| 18 | But psychological research seems to indicate that they do not necessarily cancel each other out . |
| 19 | My point is not that we might count the relations between parts as themselves parts — though this is not necessarily mistaken — but that the relations into which the parts enter in making up the whole affect their character and value so that they do not necessarily have the same value as they would have had out of that whole . |
| 20 | This is not to say that the sciences are ‘ objective ’ or even that all scientists suppose them to be so , nor that they do not sometimes have an active or applied emphasis , or that they are not sometimes reflexive and even philosophical , although in practice the ‘ philosophy of science ’ seems to be marginal to the mainstream of scientific activity . |
| 21 | Yeasts are different from other fungi , in that they do not usually form hyphae , but exist as tiny egg-shaped cells . |
| 22 | People often object to practising behaviours that they do not usually use on the grounds that it is n't natural . |
| 23 | The fundamental weakness of these bodies is that they do not usually own the land they are trying to control , so that the most effective preservation of landscapes may well stem from private landowning bodies that have an interest in conservation . |
| 24 | Variations on this theme may be acceptable provided that they do not unwittingly reward the child for not waiting or wetting . |
| 25 | A clever organiser with a history tutor on his hands may persuade the citizens of Chipping Camden that they do not really want a class in biology , they want one on Queen Victoria : but ( make no mistake ) that very persuasion will to some extent have injured the mainspring of voluntaryism in adult education in Chipping Camden . |
| 26 | ( b ) You will note that I have put some elements in parentheses , for example because , to suggest that they do not quite fit into the analysis . |
| 27 | Amphibians in the wild are food for so many other animals that it is not surprising that they do not always show themselves well even in confinement . |
| 28 | Like Between , in which foreign languages serve as a psychological trigger to recall the experience of incomprehension that is an integral part of travel , Textermination makes use of novelistic allusions which readers will be aware that they do not always understand . |
| 29 | structural changes to the social and health services brought about by the NHS and Community Care Act and changes to GP contracts are monitored to ensure that they do not adversely affect older people ; |
| 30 | In fact the latest development is that they do n't even do that by picking up a telephone , the message is teleprinted on , onto a message pad there , and when they run in they pull off this pad , and there 's the whole text for what they 've got to do , where they 've got to go , and so on . |