Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] not [vb infin] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been observed that two out of three fiction readers in libraries do not look at the text of a book before choosing it . |
| 2 | These reflections do not come at the end of the piece — Palomar then goes on to make analogies with human communication — but they do encapsulate its essential spirit and that of many other pieces in the book . |
| 3 | In this case , if it turns out that the goods do not exist at the time of the contract , the seller will be liable in damages to the buyer for breach of his contractual undertaking . |
| 4 | As Levi-Strauss was to argue , different histories have different temporalities : the time scales of the sciences do not work at the same pace as other forms of history : they have their own dynamic , their own rhythm , their own times , sometimes fast , sometimes slow , that do not operate by the ordinary round of the year ; Bachelard was fond of pointing out that from a scientific point of view the ten years from 1920 to 1930 were as long an era as the previous five hundred . |
| 5 | There are however , a few strains of mice ( mostly inbred strains or hybrids between inbred strains ) whose eggs and embryos do not block at the two-cell stage ( Table 2 ) . |
| 6 | Some of these plate boundary configurations and stages of development are largely conjectural since clear examples do not exist at the present day . |
| 7 | I am not arguing that children do not suffer at the hands of adults ; clearly they do and again we have looked at the evidence concerning incidence and prevalence . |
| 8 | If economic agents do not arrive at the solutions indicated by the economic model ( or if foreign policy decision-makers do not choose the strategies recommended by game theory ) , that is , one might say , so much the worse for the agents . |
| 9 | Catering services do not exist at the beck and call of an immature , over-wealthy child . ’ |
| 10 | The rains do not come at the same time each year and yet the guinea fowl always seem to know when the wet season is about to begin . |