Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [verb] n't [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somehow though , The Fall of Yugoslavia comes across as a series of fragments that do n't quite make a whole , and any attempts to go beyond the yawn-capacity of school history books are sadly flawed . |
| 2 | ‘ I went to three different schools and did n't really enjoy any of them . |
| 3 | But everything else about the electoral coverage left me cold because it had such a restricted view of politics as a game with rules that do n't actually touch people . |
| 4 | The only problem with it is that very often we , the people that organize the Neighbourhood Watches already live in areas that do n't really need one that much . |
| 5 | The drawbacks of the LB procedure are that it is slow , not easily applied to large areas and does n't always produce a film with the desired structure . |
| 6 | Others overlook this opportunity to share their interests with parents and do n't even seem aware of their parents ' need for mental and emotional stimulus . |
| 7 | Many of the residents have led sheltered lives and do n't normally get a chance to meet other people in the community . |
| 8 | We got some recognition from the other guitarists but did n't really have the foresight to make it into something big . |
| 9 | On the other hand you have a whole generation of TV watchers that does n't really know the rules . |
| 10 | The link , he suggested , was the ‘ intuitive poster art , words to songs that are not quite understandable , superimpositions in films that do n't quite focus into a subject ’ , all of which , he contended optimistically , ‘ move us towards the new era ’ . |
| 11 | To the places that had n't quite worked out the way the designers had planned , the places where kids drift in a city , where they make up their own version of the city . |
| 12 | At Bergheim — three houses and a gas station — we turned on to one of those narrow tracks that do n't even get a farm road numeral . |
| 13 | And then you 've got different colours that do n't really go with that , but |
| 14 | She had n't seen him in seven years and did n't really want to . |
| 15 | Problems usually arise because many reef species are capable of more than a little antisocial behaviour — and it is difficult to lay down precise guidelines regarding their compatibility because marine fish , like people , are individuals and do n't necessarily conform to generalised behaviour patterns . |
| 16 | Being forced to answer a series of closed questions that do n't adequately allow you to express your real needs . |
| 17 | I I observe that the Liberal Democrats have made a complete U turn in their previous adherence to providing a steady stream of services to the people of Oxford , and by setting for a budget below the capping level you are taking out of funds available to people things that do n't necessarily have to be taken out . |
| 18 | Perhaps we need men like Denis O'Neil to give us the pointless perspective , to underline the fact we do not live by bread alone but by blarney and beauty and other indefinable things that do n't always make money . |
| 19 | ‘ You 're using muscles that do n't usually get much work , ’ he said . |
| 20 | She said there 's these hills where it 's hot and rains all the time , and in the rain forests there are these very tall trees and right in the top branches of the trees there are these like great big flowers called … bromeliads , I think , and water gets into the flowers and makes little pools and there 's a type of frog that lays eggs in the pools and tadpoles hatch and grow into new frogs and these little frogs live their whole lives in the flowers right at the top of the trees and do n't even know about the ground and once you know the world is full of things like that your life is never the same . ’ |
| 21 | And there 's these hills where it 's hot and rains all the time , and in the rain forests there are these very tall trees and right in the top branches of the trees there are these like great big flowers called bromeliads and water gets into the flowers and makes little pools and there 's a type of frog that lays eggs in the pools and tadpoles hatch and grow into new frogs and these little frogs live their whole lives in the flowers right at the top of the trees and do n't even know about the ground and the world is full of things like that and now I know about them and I 'm never ever going to be able to see them and then you , ’ she gulped for breath , ‘ want me to come and live with you in a hole and wash your socks ! ’ |
| 22 | Yes , I think that the crucial thing that 's emerging , especially from the area of artificial intelligence , is that we 're beginning to understand that what the name of the game is getting people to express their intentions , and for a long time we 've been , as it were , stuck in languages that do n't really help you to do that and we 're really beginning to understand now that erm what people are doing when they program indeed , I mean as it were the ace programmers , are expressing their intention for whatever 's to be done in the task the computer 's to perform clearly . |
| 23 | These planets are big enough to be regarded as , in essence , stars that did n't quite make it . |
| 24 | Other girls at school used to think that was funny , because they never talked to their mums and did n't even know how old they were . |
| 25 | Not one of the big places , but one of the little shop-sized Chinese cafes that did n't even display an English menu . |
| 26 | Made some more bets that did n't quite work out , but I could still see the pattern — a good one , too . |
| 27 | It means that you have discovered some foods that do n't really suit your body at the moment . |
| 28 | Paula says that she would love to have children but has n't yet found the right man to have children with . |
| 29 | You know , very often you hear the people that are actually talking about the things they 've done are normally the ones that have n't quite got there . |
| 30 | And the ones that have n't really bothered and were n't that good at it |