Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] not [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The abolition of those taxes has not done the average family any good , has it , or those at Lloyd 's ?
2 There are two reasons for this : ( a ) the correct words do not have a proven semantic relationship ( unlike the semantic pairs ) , and ( b ) the control words are not artificially selected but instead are random orthographic derivations of the correct words and therefore not necessarily unrelated .
3 These words do not have an absolute meaning , since it varies according to context .
4 Briefly the requirements for short story are for fictional narrative based er narrative based scripts of two thousand one hundred to two thousand three hundred words do not use a factual accounts or anything longer or shorter on this , nor can we consider 60 Writers Monthly
5 Her soft words did not get a soft reply .
6 It is important to banks that accounting guidelines do not prevent the efficient financing of loans .
7 the vertical 250 squares DO NOT represent the same number of rows of knitting .
8 For example , 127 out of 196 schools did not have a single English textbook in grade one and 80 per cent had no maths books .
9 While many schools did not have a full complement of teachers , the Ministry was unable to create new posts for lack of funds .
10 It means one in four schools do not have a full staff .
11 Acquired immunity in ostertagiasis is slow to develop and calves do not achieve a significant level of immunity until the end of their first grazing season .
12 Special units do not have the extended hierarchies of schools , the majority having no more than three or four teaching staff and a secretary .
13 The great industrial changes of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries did not alter the traditional family structure of previous generations , but they did provide economic opportunities for earlier marriages and thus for more children .
14 The mass of working people , as they liberate themselves from the bourgeois yoke , will gravitate irresistibly towards us … provided yesterday 's oppressions do not infringe the long oppressed nation 's highly developed democratic feeling of self-respect and provided they are granted equality in everything .
15 This may well be possible : there is hardly a field of study in which computers do not have a valuable role to play .
16 too disputed the view that all clients see lawyers as compartmentalised individuals , ‘ although I do know people who use specific lawyers for specific areas and our own recent market research has confirmed my own view that a number of our clients do n't know the full depth of service we have on offer ’ .
17 Such crises do not have an accidental character , they are a part of the very process of capitalist production and reproduction .
18 Unlike numeric variables , string variables do not have a fixed length .
19 Gittens said : ‘ The fans did not see the best of me .
20 By insisting that the two groups have the same distribution of some extraneous variable(s) we may be introducing unreal constraints , e.g. smokers and non-smokers do not have the same age distribution in the population .
21 However , the absence of a genus does not of itself preclude the operation of the rule : it is an indication that the parties did not intend the general words to be restricted ( Chandris v Isbrandtsen-Moller [ 1951 ] 1 KB 240 ; Skillion v Keltec Industrial Research [ 1992 ] 1 EGLR 123 ) .
22 The main provision of the most recent guidelines issued in 1986 provides that the prohibition in Article 85(1) will not apply to agreements where the parties together do not enjoy more than 5 per cent of the total market for the goods or services in the area of the common market affected by their agreement and the parties do not have a combined annual turnover exceeding 200,000,000 ECU ( approximately £140-150m ) .
23 The illegality of shareware use should n't be played down , just because authors do n't have the same clout as the commercial software giants .
24 So it 's definitely the latter , we are developing a fully capable Eurofighter two thousand aircraft and if erm any of our four participating nations do not want a particular facility then we will make provision for them to leave that out in production and if an export customer does not require the full range of capabilities we can also remove them for that export customer .
25 Other writers answered the question of the universality of sign language with less certainty : ‘ though all nations do not use the same mode of signs , one having a knowledge of the signs herein delineated will experience little , if any difficulty in understanding other modes , and of being understood by those who use a different mode ’ ( Michaels , quoted in Battison and Jordan , 1976 : 54 ) .
26 However , these traffic management methods do not address the fundamental issue : in residential areas the street should be for the residents , but in reality the road design and the traffic legislation favour the car .
27 But fears are now being voiced that these new safeguards do not make a complete ‘ package ’ and that the failure of one to work properly might have a ‘ domino effect ’ on the efficacy of others .
28 Conference Declarations do not form an integral part of the treaty to which they relate , but , in accordance with the law of treaties , they are part of the context of the treaty for the purpose of its interpretation .
29 This is because in any sample of right handers it is usually found that a considerable proportion of subjects do not show the expected right ear superiority for verbal material .
30 But more important , once the semantics of the two constructions is examined , the hypothesis of meaningless variants must be ruled out once and for all : the two constructions do not mean the same thing .
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