Example sentences of "people do not " in BNC.
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| 1 | The national liberal politician , Johannes von Miquel , wrote that ‘ the suggested constitution could not be compared with the Swiss or American model ’ , adding for good measure that ‘ great peoples do not copy ’ . |
| 2 | In other words ‘ primitive ’ peoples do not simply construct words and meanings in relation to the felt needs of everyday life but classify according to more general intellectual interests and concerns . |
| 3 | There is increasing evidence that the original island peoples did not migrate eastwards from continental Asia , but evolved independently for millennia amongst the isolated atolls of the south Pacific — resulting in a different turn of mind . |
| 4 | If all British people did not feel deeply hurt by this ‘ there 's something wrong with you … ’ |
| 5 | It was n't that people did not spread false rumours . |
| 6 | Before the fears of the 1997 Chinese takeover began to mount , most people did not bother to change their registered status . |
| 7 | Looking back , it seems remarkable that only in the 1950s did white people come to accept — grudgingly for the most part — that black people did not need white people in positions of authority to lead and guide them . |
| 8 | Those kind of people did not drift through their days in a bored and aimless way , as she of ten did . |
| 9 | The Armaments Inspectorate at Nuremberg , commenting on the successful concealment of preparation for the invasion , noted that ‘ the concentration of numerous troops in the eastern areas had allowed speculation to arise that significant events were afoot there , but nevertheless probably the overwhelming proportion of the German people did not think of any warlike confrontation with the Soviet Union ’ . |
| 10 | It was not a uniformly creative search for reality : some people did not listen to news , and others did not interrogate the shortwaves with the sharp skill and interest exhibited so unexpectedly in the tent outside Ajdabiya . |
| 11 | For the most part people did not take the question seriously ; it was the characteristic passion of young men in the grip of recent learning , or policemen temporarily possessed by the Libyan officials ' variety of amok . |
| 12 | Of course , it was forbidden to form parties : but in Ajdabiya and Kufra people did not consider giving support to another , voting for him , because they agreed with his ideas . |
| 13 | In Kufra , in 1979 , some people did not pay their contribution to the small boy who visited the houses , so their shaikh went in person . |
| 14 | On lesser occasions , such as peace-makings within the Zuwaya , or within a section , they were not so formal : people did not say ‘ We Jlulat ’ , or not often . |
| 15 | People did not usually describe themselves as servants ( clients did not , nor did government employees ) . |
| 16 | It was no wonder that in the late Seventies , when Americans were beginning to query whether they were carrying out too many coronary by-passes , Britain 's health correspondents were reporting that many people did not even know such life savers existed . |
| 17 | It was not enough to have modern weapons and ‘ the best of young Irishmen ’ if the people did not understand the nature of the freedom for which they were fighting and that |
| 18 | But Indonesia , in common with Vesuvius and almost all volcanic areas in the world , is located in the middle of an intensely active seismic zone , so earthquakes in the area were far from uncommon , and the local people did not attach much special significance to this latest bout of tremors . |
| 19 | Knowledge of what they were expected to do on discharge was equally scanty and the elderly people did not seem to connect the pattern of drug-taking in hospital with a possible continuation once they were home . |
| 20 | It had become ‘ painfully evident ’ that the majority of people did not possess the merits of ‘ Capable Citizens … |
| 21 | And certainly the army people did not want incapacitated ones . |
| 22 | O.G.S. Crawford refused a paid advertisement for the book in the journal Antiquity , his objection centring around the view that prehistoric people did not walk in straight lines , as all the undoubted prehistoric roads were winding . |
| 23 | ‘ British soldiers are the best in the world , ’ a schoolmaster told his class , adding , for the benefit of the Kindertransporte pupils , ‘ You people did not think we had it in us . ’ |
| 24 | Many Portuguese people in hotels and restaurants speak French if not English , but unfortunately for us the Met people did not , in general . |
| 25 | In February 1990 , a Gallop Survey , found that most people did not know how to manage their money , and just muddled through . |
| 26 | They objected that her people did not act , but merely behaved . |
| 27 | The Home Office appears to have no clear idea why two million voters are not registered , nor why 11 million people did not vote in 1987 . |
| 28 | PEOPLE did not begin to wish each other ‘ Merry Christmas ’ until the late 1700s/early 1800s . |
| 29 | ‘ She was very sensitive and if she thought people did not like her or she thought her friends were ignoring her she became paranoid . ’ |
| 30 | The causal connections between early life chances and present opportunities were implicit rather than explicit almost as if people did not want to articulate these except in the ways that I report . |